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Contents Of The Dead Man's Pocket (2000)

by Jack Finney(Favorite Author)

3.44 of 5 Votes: 5

languge

English

genre

Horror

publisher

http://web.archive.org/web/20091129121300/http://homepage.mac.com/cssfan/jackfinney/

review 1: I had to read this book in English class with a partner. I'm quite a big fan of suspense so I took an immediate liking towards the short story. When I started reading it, I found the main character, Tom, interesting. He neglects his wife Clare and his life around him, focusing on his job at Wholesale Groceries. As he started to get onto the ledge where his paper was at, I started to feel nervous for him and I had many thoughts running through my mind. Thankfully, when Tom made it back into his apartment, I felt relief. I also felt happy for Tom because he finally figures out he was wasting his whole life doing something other than spending time with his wife. He races out the door to find her in the last part. This short story should now remain a favorite of mine thanks to... more my English class.
review 2: What does my life look like from a precarious perch 11 stories up in the air? How much are my greatest ambitions worth when subjected to the ultimate test? Are they leading me to the person I want to be? Have I ever seen my home--people--my family--as what they really are?An acrophobe myself, this story had me shaking; I determined that I would drown the author in ink if he did what I thought he would. I have been at that place--on the edge of existence, millimeters or breaths away from crashing down out of all reality, deliriously wondering if life was a trick; to put anyone else there, real or on paper, and make his fears come true, would be a crime against--everything. In the end, though, I thanked him. It wasn't just the hackneyed, though true, "treasure-the-moment" injunction; there was something in it, as there is in all high places, about eternity. less

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