"It was very tough job to rate this bookFirst of all, how can you rate the world of someone's childhood????Secondly, yes, the book is brilliant; yes, it's full of nostalgy, mystic adventures and scary misadventures, spooky atmosphere, far and dim images of reader's own childhood, magic, usual life a...
A lyrical coming of age novel set in the deep south. Magical, moving, and all round excellent as we follow along with the main character, seeing a summer through his eyes, the last one when he still believes magic is possible before turning into a teenager.
Robert R. McCammon has only reinforced the knowledge that Southern writers have a great command of the language. And his masterpiece "Boy's Life" is proof. What a great read. Yeah, it took me a couple of months (hey, I got a job at the end of October and it has taken up my unemployment-reading time)...
WOW! "Boy's Life" is a coming of age story following the life of budding writer Cory Mackenson and his three best friends in small town 1960's Zephyr, Alabama.A murder mystery winds its way through this story and there are flashes of Ray Bradbury and wide-eyed child fantasy throughout. All-in-all, a...
My second McCammon and I loved it! Highly recommended to my husband, as the boy in the title is very likeable and real. Also, the book has a unreal Stephen-King feel to it.
Think Something Wicked This Way Comes without a focused antagonistic plot line. Think Alice Hoffman. Think of something leisurely, and winding, with just a trace of the unreal. Think of boyhood stories from your southern grandpa, told by a master. Think sloooow. Boy’s Life is very evocative, an ...
Words will never be able to do justice for this book as it is a masterpiece. It mad me laugh and it made me cry but best of all, it made me remember parts of my life growing up that I'd forgotten. If you've never read this, do yourself a favor and read it, soon. You will not regret it.
I had super high expectations with this one from all of the great things I had heard about it. I was almost scared to read it for fear of a letdown. I was NOT letdown. This read like a series of interconnected short stories because there was just so much going on and so many entertwining story threa...
Well, that was another resounding "meh."Positives:I think that McCammon writes amazing visual and a wonderful atmosphere. Very well. It has the deep sensations and verisimilitude that I like (and should expect from a World Fantasy Award winner, so no surprise there).He evokes a very lazy, vintage ...
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