Bentley little epub

There was no graffiti on its walls, no garbage thrown on its lawn. The handful of homes remaining around it had deteriorated tremendously and were now as dilapidated as the surrounding apartment buildings, but the house remained unchanged. He realized that he had never asked the kid why he had called his film Butchery.

Sitting there in his rental car, in the middle of the slummy neighborhood, staring at his unchanged home, that suddenly seemed important. The early afternoon sun was blocked by buildings, but its light shone through the broken windows of an empty fire-gutted structure across the street, casting bizarre shadows on the face of the house, shadows that were too abstract to resemble anything real but that nonetheless jogged some recess of his memory.

Stormy got out of the car. He felt like a flea standing before a tidal wave. If whatever was happening encompassed this house in Chicago, the theater in Albuquerque, the reservation, and God knew what else, he was a dust speck in the face of it. It made no sense for him to even be here. The thought that he could do something, that he could make a difference, that he could possibly have an influence over anything was ludicrous. It was a warm afternoon, but the air was cold in the shadow of the house, and he remembered that from before.

He knew his grandmother and parents were dead, understood it intellectually, but emotionally it felt to him as though they were inside, waiting for him, waiting to criticize him, waiting to punish him, and he wiped his sweaty palms on his pants. He is an unabashed supporter of horror fiction and has been described as a disciple of Stephen King.

Search review text. Jonathon Von. Little gets cosmic in Gloria, one of his more experimental books in recent memory. But as the story evolves, the notions of memory and sentimentality, the idea of wishing a person back, takes on a unique and creepy connotation.

It spirals and repeats itself a little bit but stays pretty engaging. There are some really creepy moments, and plenty of them. But what sticks with me here is an emotional through line that has a very adult perspective on grief and love. There are ideas about nostalgia and the reality that maybe your idea of someone who has passed might be different from who they really were. A bit shapeless but thoughtful and creepy. His books always make me want to eat Mexican food, too.

The way he describes those fajitas, mouth watering. Sheena Forsberg. It evolves into something so much more and I quickly realized I had severely underestimated what awaited me between these covers no matter how much I was looking forward to this read.

What I got was a woman stuck in a ground-hog-day kind of hellhole where deceased family members keep showing up alive and desperately trying to kill her husband and mostly succeeding for some unknown reason. I really need to get my hands on some more of his books. Cody CodysBookshelf. One of my most anticipated books of the year was a bit of a disappointment.

I applaud the author for trying something new. Unfortunately, this was a bit of a mess. Our main character, Gloria, is a bit of a nothing, a bore. But this is Bentley Little! But not as good. Kathy Love. Author 43 books followers. I had a hard time getting into this book. I wanted it to be much suspenseful and spooky than it was. An incongruously well-dressed man holding a black whip was standing behind the ditch on a raised section of ground, barking orders.

It reminded him of a scene from some low-budget biblical epic or a revisionist indie film about the Old South. He realized that they were both talking low, as if afraid of being overheard, and Barry made a conscious effort to raise his voice. Maureen laughed. But there were no cameras rolling here. They walked slowly past the open area, watching the men work. Copyright Disclaimer: This site does not store any files on its server. We only index and link to content provided by other sites.