Heart-Shaped Box: A Novel
“Wild, mesmerizing, perversely witty….A Valentine from hell.”
—Janet Maslin, New York Times
The publication of Joe Hill’s beautifully textured, deliciously scary debut novel Heart-Shaped Box was greeted with the sort of overwhelming critical acclaim that is rare for a work of skin-crawling supernatural terror. It was cited as a Best Book of the Year by Atlanta magazine, the Tampa Tribune, the St. Louis Post Dispatch, and the Village Voice, to name but a few. Award-winning, #1 New York Times bestselling Neil Gaiman of The Sandman, The Graveyard Book, and Anansi Boys fame calls Joe Hill’s story of a jaded rock star haunted by a ghost he purchased on the internet, “relentless, gripping, powerful.” Open this Heart-Shaped Box from two-time Bram Stoker Award-winner Hill if you dare and see what all the well-deserved hoopla is about.
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I was so hyped to read this book, I mean come on, Joe Hill is the son of legendary Stephen King AND it was blurbed by Neil Gaiman! I'm just not sure if I didn't enjoy this book because I can't relate to the emo rocker façade, or what. I might give this book other shot, but i the meantime I'm selling my copy back to Half-Priced Books. If I have the desire to pick it up then I'll check it out from the library. Until then, toodle-oo.
The real issue for me became the topics discussed in the book. While I'm aware that part of the definition of horror is repulsion, I guess I generally apply it to things like body horror or grotesque monsters as opposed to forced masturbation, snuff films, and child molestation. These are horrifying topics, but they are not generally for me.
All that being said, I have to agree with everyone else. A lot of the verbal description in this book is quite good and had me cringing in my seat. So if the previously mentioned topics are up your alley, I can recommend Heart-Shaped Box to you.
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