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Strangeville Part 1 (2000)

by Kenneth Tingle(Favorite Author)

3.12 of 5 Votes: 5

languge

English

genre

Romance

series

Strangeville

review 1: Not quite sure what to make of this one. Great name, nice cover, auspicious start and then...Young man with strong suicidal tendencies drives south to visit family, gets lost and stuck in a...well, very strange place that's like a theme park of sorts, if themes were backwardness, ruralness and 1950s. So it ought to be horrifying and it is at first, but then it turns into a tale of camaraderie and second chances at love and it's a tad confusing...is this suppose to be spooky or one of those waxing nostalgia morality tales.(The latter I personally don't buy. Sure it's easy for some to view the past as quaint and certainly simpler times and fall under the plain folk aw shucks kinda charm, but that can hide plenty of ugliness, closemindedness and stupidity).Here maybe it's a c... moreombination of both somehow. It's written well enough to peak the reader's curiosity, which presumably is the point since it is marketed in 3 parts.
review 2: This was a quick read- started and finished in the same day. It's about a man, John, who wants to commit suicide, yet instead finds himself lost in a town called Strangeville. It is a black comedy and starts off kind of quirky. To be honest, I actually enjoyed the story with his inner dialogue as much as when he arrives at Strangeville- maybe even more. It ends at kind of a strange place- I was expecting another chapter and instead it was the end of the book. Still deciding if I want to go on and read the second book... less

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