A Winter Haunting
Seasons of Horror, Book 2
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A Winter Haunting
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Narrateur(s):
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Bronson Pinchot
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Auteur(s):
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Dan Simmons
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Dale Stewart's life has become a shadow of what it once was. A respected college professor and successful novelist, he sabotaged his career and his marriage with an obsessive love affair that ended badly.
With darkness closing in on him, Dale decides to return to his boyhood home in Illinois. Drawn by a recurring nightmare that has plagued him since his youth—and a troubling certainty that something is waiting for him there—he hopes to exorcise his demons.
In the last hours of Halloween, he reaches the outskirts of the dying town of Elm Haven. There, he moves into the abandoned farmhouse that was once the home of his closest boyhood friend, the strange and brilliant Duane McBride, who lost his young life in a grisly "accident" back in the terrible summer of 1960. Hoping to find peace in isolation, he settles in for the long, harsh winter.
But Dale is not alone. Soon after he arrives, cryptic messages begin appearing mysteriously on his computer screen while he struggles to work on his novel. He sees black dogs roaming the grounds. And an old enemy has reemerged, a bully who seems as determined to persecute Dale as he was in childhood.
©2002 by Dan Simmons. (P)2015 Blackstone Audio, Inc. and used by arrangement.Bronson Pinchot's narration was fantastic! I must admit to being from the generation that remembers him most as "Balki" from Perfect Strangers and his performance surpassed my every expectation. He really has a wonderful voice & timbre and I would be happy to listen to many more audiobooks narrated by him.
Great story, excellent narration.
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Great sequel
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good entertaining story
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Enjoyed
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I loved Summer of Night. Derivative but delightful, and it includes one of my favorite fictional children, Cordy Cook. But yeah, after reading it, this feels much sadder and more bleak than before- and it was still pretty grim, then.
Poor Dale grows up to be a hack and a philanderer, having an affair with one of the most obnoxious coeds I've ever read, losing his family and his mind.
Reading this on it's own, it's a pretty straightforward story of a man coming with loss and mental illness, and trying to get himself back. But with ghosts. And painfully literal black dogs of depression. Yup, no subtlety, here. But it works. It's interesting. You're never sure where it's going. But then there's that twist ending. I'm not sure if I hate it or not. It felt cheap. Suddenly, there's no more mystery of whether it was a psychological episode or the supernatural, we get a definitive answer, but it just felt wrong, and kind of tacked on just so the author could make a self-referential joke about Summer of Night that calls into question everything that happened, there.
So yeah, reading this AFTER Summer of Night, that ending is especially frustrating, and the whole story was a giant, anticlimactic bummer.
But I mean, I liked it for what it was, I guess.
pretty good
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Surprised by how much I enjoyed this
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An absolute delight!
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A very frustrating read.
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