Tooth Fairy
I just finished The Tooth Fairy by Graham Joyce. At some site I had seen it listed as a really scary book, and I started reading it with great expectations. Turns out that it’s your basic group-of-boys-coming-of-age novel, which is not necessarily a bad thing, but it’s like drinking a swig of Dr. Pepper and discovering it’s really water in your glass.
The book itself was entertaining and fairly compelling. The opening chapter is absolutely chilling and will make me think twice before dangling my toes in a body of water. I guess I recommend the book, maybe 4 out of 5 stars. It’s strange. Did you ever read a book and have trouble deciding whether you liked it or not? I think I will need to read it again in another 6 months, now that I know what it’s about, and judge it then.
In the meantime I am still looking for a really scary book. Something that will give me the shuddering creeps, like The Haunting of Hill House, or The Shining. Have a suggestion?
September 3rd, 2003 at 2:04 am
Ever read SK’s’The Stand’? Great book and I guarantee it will give you the creeps.
September 3rd, 2003 at 2:05 am
I guess I should mention that I own just about every book SK published, most of them in first edition and many signed. =) So I need to venture beyond King-land, at least until DTV comes out this fall.
September 3rd, 2003 at 3:05 am
You want to get scared? Really get scared? Read “Helter Skelter” by Vincent Bugliosi. The scariest thing about that book is that it is non-fiction. It will kick the crap out of anything SK has ever written. And something scarier than that is Henry Lee Lucas’ biography. I couldn’t even finish that one. Real life will always be more frightening.