<![CDATA[The Glister: A Novel]]>

false <![CDATA[The Glister: A Novel]]> 5941264 8 Since George Lister’s chemical plant closed down, Innertown has been a shadow of its former self. In the woods that once teemed with life, strange sickly plants grow. Homes that were once happy are threatened by a mysterious illness. Here, a young boy named Leonard and his friends exist in a state of confusion and despair, as every year or so a boy from their school vanishes after venturing into the poisoned woods. Without conclusive evidence of foul play, the authorities consider the boys to be runaways. The town policeman suspects otherwise but, paralyzed with fear, he does nothing. And so it is up to the children who remain to take action. Their plan to stop the forces of evil that are destroying their town is at the shocking and terrifying heart of The Glister. 6113766 2008 The Glister: A Novel total:117|5:10|4:28|3:30|2:32|1:17| 117 333 333 44 4 3 false false Mon Jan 05 15:50:56 -0800 2009 Fri Jan 02 17:23:03 -0800 2009 Mon Jan 05 15:50:56 -0800 2009 more...]]> 4 2 false false Tue Mar 10 09:59:34 -0700 2009 Tue Mar 10 09:59:43 -0700 2009 more...]]> 3 3 false false Sat Dec 06 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Tue Dec 02 05:45:03 -0800 2008 Sat Dec 06 13:03:27 -0800 2008 The Snowman's Children--where the dread of the serial-killer plot served as mere mechanism for conveying something opaque, shadowy, oblique about the dread we feel as children, adul...more...]]> 2 3 false false Wed Apr 01 16:16:00 -0700 2009 Wed Apr 01 16:17:01 -0700 2009 4 1 false false Mon Apr 06 18:04:01 -0700 2009 Mon Apr 06 18:07:40 -0700 2009 3 1 false false Mon May 11 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sun May 10 09:22:55 -0700 2009 Wed May 13 08:01:52 -0700 2009
On the former, The Glister gets a fantastic score, 4 or even 5. A sort of literary horror, the whole work is laid over with a subtle, sinister edge. The nearly feral...more...]]> 4 0 false false Fri Dec 05 17:29:26 -0800 2008 Tue Dec 09 19:17:24 -0800 2008 more...]]> 5 1 false false Sun Apr 26 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Tue Apr 07 14:48:49 -0700 2009 Sun Apr 26 16:48:48 -0700 2009 George Lister's secretive chemical plant fueled Innertown's economy for decades, but since its closure, its legacies are poverty, clusters of rare cancers, and a local wilderness populated with rumors of an unnatural selection of misshapen wildlife. Whe...more...]]> 3 0 false false Tue May 05 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sat May 09 07:27:59 -0700 2009 Sat May 09 07:33:14 -0700 2009 more...]]> 0 0 false false Wed Sep 30 12:47:47 -0700 2009 Wed Sep 30 12:47:47 -0700 2009 more...]]> 2 0 false false Sun Sep 20 15:58:02 -0700 2009 Sun Sep 20 16:01:35 -0700 2009
"The definition of a page-turner really aught to be th...more...]]> 3 0 false false Mon Apr 27 07:27:02 -0700 2009 Mon Apr 27 07:36:57 -0700 2009
I thought Burnside's last novel, The Devil's Footprints, was an outstanding novel. This one wanders further into the mystery/thriller territory, but t...more...]]> 5 0 false false Wed Aug 19 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Fri Jul 10 08:30:31 -0700 2009 Mon Sep 07 16:56:30 -0700 2009

THE GLISTER
John Burnside
Doubleday/Nan A Talese
2008

This is not horror of the Stephen King variety (though i have nothing against SK)....rather it is cerebral....almost to a fault..meaning one can get lost in the atmosphere, both of the writ...more...]]> 4 0 false false Wed Aug 12 11:23:39 -0700 2009 Thu Aug 13 07:04:24 -0700 2009 more...]]> 0 0 false false Thu Oct 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Thu Oct 08 12:17:18 -0700 2009 Mon Nov 09 14:53:29 -0800 2009 more...]]> 4 0 false false Sun Apr 19 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sat Dec 20 16:59:15 -0800 2008 Sun Apr 19 17:44:56 -0700 2009 more...]]> 3 1 false false Mon Jun 15 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Tue Dec 09 02:44:36 -0800 2008 Wed Jun 24 07:06:36 -0700 2009
I had high hopes for this novel. And I did enjoy it a lot. I liked the creepy otherworldlyness of the setting. It felt normal and yet al...more...]]> 3 0 false false Fri Jul 31 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Fri Jul 31 17:50:00 -0700 2009 Fri Jul 31 20:46:56 -0700 2009 more...]]> 2 0 false false Wed Nov 04 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Sun Oct 11 04:52:04 -0700 2009 Wed Nov 04 04:26:41 -0800 2009 more...]]> 4 0 false false Sat May 09 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sun May 10 21:57:41 -0700 2009 Sun May 10 22:03:16 -0700 2009
It was over too soon (which is both a compliment and a criticism) and the ending was a bit unsatisfying, but this w...more...]]> http://www.goodreads.com/book_link/follow/8?book_id=5941264