Type of bind: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 813
EAN num: 9780786017126
ISBN number: 0786017120
Label: Pinnacle
Manufacturer: Pinnacle
Quantity: 1
Page Count: 384
Printing Date: July 01, 2006
Publishing house: Pinnacle
Sale Popularity Level: 247222
Studio: Pinnacle
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The latest Appalachian Gothic thriller from award-winning author Scott Nicholson,The Farm explores the legend of a 200-year-old circuit riding preacher who pays a visit to the tiny mountain community of Solom. At the heart of the story is the relationship between a mother and daughter who are new to the town and are just discovering its strange history and dark secrets.
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I bought this book to read at home while I was on bedrest due to pregnancy complications. I love Bentley Little so I thought this author would be pretty good. I was WRONG! This guy can't make the story flow and it is very choppy and hard to follow and stay interested. I can't believe this guy actually got this book published! Truely awful!
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The Farm was a huge disappointment to me. I heard rave reviews about the author and the setting behind the story i thought was great. However the poor plot development, boring characters, and dismal climax made this book a poor read in the end. not worth your time or money
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At their core, the authors of classic horror novels - I'm thinking the early works of Stephen King, Peter Straub, or Thomas Tryon - understand the subtlety of terror - that truly scary stories build slowly from anomalies in natural, everyday events, gradually pulling the reader irresistibly into what they know will be eventually scaring the pants off them. Regrettably, this subtlety is lost on Scott Nicholson in this flat and disconnected yawner of "horror" fiction.
Recently divorced Katy Logan and her "Goth-lite" twelve-year daughter, "Jett", leave their life in Charlotte behind and head for the hills of western North Carolina with new husband/step-dad Gordon Smith, a professor of religious history. One never grasps Katy's attraction to this pompous buffoon, but before the very first page has turned we're experiencing our very first haunting, and then serving up a smörgåsbord of ghouls - carnivorous goats, scarecrows that simply won't stay staked, a headless housewife, and a centuries-dead circuit preacher. While Nicholson borrows liberally from the literature - Tryon's "Harvest Home" and King's frightening short story, "The Man in the Black Suit" come to mind - this conglomeration of demons conjures up about as terror - and makes about as much sense - as an episode of "Scooby Doo". To make matters worse, Nicholson, whose bio puts him in Carolina's Blue Ridge Mountains, writes of these rugged mountain people with thinly veiled contempt, going beyond simple stereotype to patronize and condescend. But in a bizarre and certainly unintended way, "The Farm" was a perversely entertaining novel. Nicholson's fumbling inaccuracies with topics across a wide range - twelve-year olds, geography, economics, firearms, and even the relatively pastoral Charlotte, a drug infested Las Vegas-like Sin City in Nicholson's world - makes for a comical backdrop. The author may not be able to tell a Kalashnikov from a cabbage, and his deliciously indignant and out-of-context political ramblings blunt hopes for any possible redeeming horror value by the time it caravans to a ham-fisted climax in keeping with 400 pages of silliness the precede it.
So, no, despite strong reviews from Amazon readers, I didn't find much to recommend in "The Farm", scary only in the abysmally clumsy plot and insipid dialogue. I'll admit that good horror is hard to find these days - Joe Hill didn't really do it for me either - but you may want to consider Susan Hill's "The Woman in Black" as an example of classic horror the way it was meant to be read.
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Let me list all the bad about this book:
The characters
The story
The writing
The feeling
I could care less about these ridiculous people and this preposterous story. One character each time he should up, the writing the same this over and over again!!! I was never so bored with a book in my life.
Save your money and your time on this one. I'll never read this author again! The goats were beyond stupid.
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I really enjoyed my very first Nicholson book, The Farm. There was a large cast of characters that were all multi-faceted and well thought out. Nicholoson keeps you guessing for a while on who the Antagonist actually is. I can't wait to read more of his books.
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