Threshold
by Caitlín R. Kiernan
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Read in August, 2004
I knew from the first sentence that I would like Kiernan's writing style. I have gathered 3 post-its on pages that I wanted to copy a quote from or use an as example. Like an example of how the author describes things: when a character is trying to stay very close to a brick wall so she can remain in it's thin line of shade, Kiernan says she "presses herself scrapbook rosepetal flat." There are dozens of descriptions like that, but that particular one caught my fancy.
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Read in July, 2007
I found this book by accident while browsing the horror section of my local bookstore. After reading the excerpt on the back of the book, I decided to pick it up.
The first thing that you'll notice within the first 10 pages is the author's horrible prose. With each paragraph containing maybe 4 rambling, run-on sentences, it was very difficult to get past her style of writing. That combined with her abhorrence of the spacebar or even a hyphen and her proclivity for creating her own words by jo...more
The first thing that you'll notice within the first 10 pages is the author's horrible prose. With each paragraph containing maybe 4 rambling, run-on sentences, it was very difficult to get past her style of writing. That combined with her abhorrence of the spacebar or even a hyphen and her proclivity for creating her own words by jo...more
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Read in January, 2008
recommends it for:
anyone who's angry and wants to add fuel to the fire
Before I get too far into this review, I only got through 70-75% of the book before I had to put it into the used bookstore trade pile. I've never done that before. Never.
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Awful! I read a great deal, good and bad, interesting and dull, but never one that was so annoying and action-less. Let me expound... Reading a book in the present tense is difficult because it's rare to read one written like that and it makes sense to have the third person omniscient content in the pas...more
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Awful! I read a great deal, good and bad, interesting and dull, but never one that was so annoying and action-less. Let me expound... Reading a book in the present tense is difficult because it's rare to read one written like that and it makes sense to have the third person omniscient content in the pas...more
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This is almost a 4.5. I found the writing in this novel much better than that of her previous novel, Silk. While she still employs the dangling descriptions and compound words that tend to annoy me, it isn't as rampant in this novel. The characterizations are more complete and a bit less stereotypical than in Silk, and the story was creative and innovative, pulling from Beowulf and paleontology. What I found most compelling was the unexpected ending (I won't give it away...suffice it to say,...more
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Read in August, 2007
I really wanted to like this book. REALLY.wanted to. Unfortunately, the narrative jumps around so much between real life and dreams that I had trouble following it. I'm not saying that I'm a super-genius or anything but I do read A LOT and the fact that I kept having to go back and attempt to figure out what was happening now and what happened three pages ago became a bit tiresome. Like I said, I wanted to like it, right now I feel ambivalent. Give me a couple of months, things might change...more
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It's a little sophisticated for the YA classification, but great for an adult who's into Southern urban Gothic. Like reading a really good movie.
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THis book was so depressing, I didn't make it past the second chapter
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Read in June, 2005
Geology and Beowulf. Wonderful book, though the ending irritated me.
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