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A House of Light
Product Group: Book
Publisher: Headline Review (2005-10-03)
ISBN: 0755323300
EAN: 9780755323302
Paperback: 320 pages
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Customer Reviews
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Like watching paint dry!
Rating  (1)
Date: 2008-03-24
1 out of 1 customers found this reveiw helpful
I'm with Colin Robertson on this one. This has to be one of the most dull books I have read. The cover promised a "page-turner" and "psychological thriller" but I started to wonder if the reviewers had actually read the book, as it couldn't be less of a thriller. Once I had started it I was determined to see it through to the end but the story was very slow, the characters wishy-washy and the links between different parts of the plot tenuous. It definitely didn't do what it said on the tin!
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What on earth!
Rating  (5)
Date: 2007-05-30
0 out of 1 customers found this reveiw helpful
I don't know where Mr Colin Robertson (one of the above reviewers) is coming from. This book is fabulous! I couldn't put it down! I was gripped from start to finish and thoroughly enjoyed every moment of my time spent reading it. Highly recommended by me anyway!
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The very definition of tedium!
Rating (1)
Date: 2006-02-23
9 out of 11 customers found this reveiw helpful
Finding a starting point, from which to level criticisms at this book, is similar to choosing your first chocolate out of the box - so many choices, but which one do I want first?
Put simply, this book manages to fail to deliver on just about every level that it possibly could. The writing style, whilst competent, lacks all creativity and imagination and as for character development? Well, there is none. Instead, a compilation of stereotypes are brandished at us, into which we invest no interest or consideration. The plot links are so unlikely that the word 'tenuous' falls short of really describing them and whenever any artistic referrence is made towards photography the reader is left feeling nausious. The so called 'startling' revelations would be hard pushed to alert a sleeping donkey, and as for the laboured romantic and nostalgic whims of the elderly character 'Edie' - everything that she says leaves one reaching for a bucket in which to vomit.
The entire book reads like the inhibited daydream of a middle-class college girl who likes to be told that she's 'clever' and 'oh so bright', but completely fails to demonstrate any such quality.
All in all, a dull book that has stolen approximately three-hours of my life; time that I shall never, sadly, retrieve!
Whilst there are leaflets knocking about giving information on how to service your central heating system there is always going to be something more stimulating to read than 'a house of light'!
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Short on Thrills
Rating  (3)
Date: 2005-12-19
5 out of 5 customers found this reveiw helpful
This is a well written book. My main criticism is that it is described as a Psychological Thriller. I found it very heavy on the Psychology and very short on the thrills.I rather grudgingly recommend it.
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