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The Caretaker Of Lorne Field: A Novel (2010)

by Dave Zeltserman(Favorite Author)

3.63 of 5 Votes: 5

ISBN

1590203038 (ISBN13: 9781590203033)

languge

English

genre

Horror

publisher

Overlook Hardcover

review 1: Id agree with the review that this shouldnt necessarily be marketed as a "horror" story; I kept expecting more jump-out-of-your-seat frights. That being said, I still enjoyed the book while at the same time feeling so incredibly sad for the main character. The ending was a bit anticlimatic; I was expecting more of a redeeming ending for Jack as he had stuck by his beliefs through thrown tomatoes, a disbelieving wife who left him, and the verbal abuse from the locals.
review 2: I got this book based on the following premise: There’s a man who weeds the same field every day. What if what he was weeding were monsters instead of weeds? And though I believe that the story is well told, I found the ambiguity to be the most trying part. I would have expected to r... moreead a 237 page book in under four hours, but it took me longer than that and I think it’s because of the ambiguity. Are the weeds really monsters or is this just a story of a man who is thoroughly deluded? That question remains unanswered until page 236, which in my view makes this story a successful psychological thriller, but not such a great monster story. It’s not the threat of the monsters that keeps the tension up; it’s the truly horrifying lengths the caretaker is willing to go to to make sure that the field gets weeded. less

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