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Paranoya (2000)

by John Rector(Favorite Author)

3.35 of 5 Votes: 4

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review 1: Personally I think this is one of the best stories ever Told. I literally could not put this book down. It's a short, easy read that I think everyone should read. It's depressing, yes. But it's funny, scary, dramatic, and above all, a giant mystery right up until the end.Dexter is a depressed drunk who lives on a large area of farm. Especially depressed one night, he decides to get blackout drunk. But when he wakes up in the grove behind his property, things get seriously real.First he notices that his tractor has been dumped backward into a ditch. First sign that he has no idea what happened the night before because he does not know how that happened. Second, and more shockingly, he finds the dead body of a teenage girl close by, and isn't entirely sure that he didn't do ... moreit. Although he has never seen this girl, he still is scared that he might have murdered her, so he goes on his own (completely insane) investigation into the girl and her death. But he isn't doing it alone. He is getting help from the dead girl herself. This totally insane character is something else. The way he keeps the dead body in the forest as almost a shrine, and the way his insane mind is getting help from this dead girl as she literally decomposes before his eyes. This is an incredible book, made only better by the short winded, easy read and the cut to the chase story telling. I have and always will recommend this book as one of my very favorites.
review 2: The Grove is a creepy and deeply disturbing novel. At just under 250 pages, it's a page-turner that can easily be read in one sitting, but after each event unfolds you pause in order to decide if you really want to continue. It's hard to discuss the book without giving anything away, but the entire story centers around a mentally ill man, and the dead girl in the grove near his house who starts to haunt him.There is some genuinely terrifying imagery in this novel, interspersed with a lot of bad decisions made by the protagonist. We are helpless to witness his spectacular downfall, and that's why it can become hard to continue, and yet equally impossible to put down. Each page forces the main character into a worse situation than the one before. The protagonist's actions are so frenzied and desperate that we almost forget that there is an actual mystery to be solved before the conclusion.I kept thinking how this book reminded me of the atmosphere in The Cement Garden by Ian McEwan. The reader knows from the very beginning that the characters are headed down a path of fabulous ruin, yet it remains unclear just exactly how the entire ride will end. less

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