Books by Robert Jackson Bennett
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review 1: This is an exceptional piece of work. I haven't read anything from the field of horror and/or fantasy for a long while and if this is where the golden age of horror of the 80s and the 90s evolved into - count me in. Many summerized the story before me, so I'll skip that. I just s...
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review 1: I was really torn between one and two stars. This book suffered from the tyranny of high hopes, when the reality fails to meet those high hopes invariably you feel worse about it than if you had no expectations to begin with. Everything Brent Weeks has recommended I've tried has ...
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review 1: A spectacular coming-of-age fantasy novel from one of the best new fantasists in recent years. As with his previous two novels, MR. SHIVERS and THE COMPANY MAN, Bennett mixes strong fantastical and mythical elements into a historical narrative -- in this case, magicians traveling...
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review 1: Set during the Great Depression, MR. SHIVERS by Robert Jackson Bennett tells the story of a man obsessed with tracking and killing a mysterious man who brutally murdered a member of his family. Along the way, he finds others just like him, and they travel through the dust bowl, h...
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review 1: The Company Man by Robert Jackson Bennett (Orbit) begins in 1919 as a trolley car filled with eleven factory workers dead inside of it, rolls into a station. All were alive when they entered the trolley and all were union workers. The eponymous investigator works for the McNaught...
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review 1: A good yarn part horror part beginning and ending of the world. This is the second book of his I have read and they are well writtne easy to read. Each of the characters move on in some way. It is also a comment on everyday life and goals. It is about good and evil and how there ...
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review 1: There were WAY too many allegories, religious and otherwise, for me to handle in this one. The Great Depression and the Dust Bowl of the 1930s are the physical location of this story. The author uses death as a character and ever-looming theme of the book. I also spied hints of S...