The Pallbearers Club

The Pallbearers Club

Hardback
2.84

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“Paul Tremblay delivers another mind-bending horror novel . . . The Pallbearers Club is a welcome casket of chills to shoulder.” – Washington PostA cleverly voiced psychological thriller from the nationally bestselling author of The Cabin at the End of the World and Survivor Song.What if the coolest girl you’ve ever met decided to be your friend?Art Barbara was so not cool. He was a seventeen-year-old high school loner in the late 1980s who listened to hair metal, had to wear a monstrous back-brace at night for his scoliosis, and started an extracurricular club for volunteer pallbearers at poorly attended funerals. But his new friend thought the Pallbearers Club was cool. And she brought along her Polaroid camera to take pictures of the corpses.Okay, that part was a little weird.So was her obsessive knowledge of a notorious bit of New England folklore that involved digging up the dead. And there were other strange things – terrifying things – that happened when she was around, usually at night. But she was his friend, so it was okay, right?Decades later, Art tries to make sense of it all by writing The Pallbearers Club: A Memoir. But somehow this friend got her hands on the manuscript and, well, she has some issues with it. And now she’s making cuts.Seamlessly blurring the lines between fiction and memory, the supernatural and the mundane, The Pallbearers Club is an immersive, suspenseful portrait of an unusual and disconcerting relationship.

Book Information

Main Genre
Historical Novels
Sub Genre
N/A
Format
Hardback
Pages
288
Price
27.00 €

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I never give one star ratings… But this book deserves it. I have never read a more boring book in my life. It’s like you’re sitting next to a narcissistic man, talking about his boring life. How can you title something like that as a ‚horror novel‘ when all he does is talk about his boring life and his only friend… ‚Art Barbara‘ (come on - what a ridiculous name to begin with) was a narcissistic brat without friends when he was young and grew up to be a narcissistic dumb man without friends. He is lazy and he’s a tick, who lives off other people. He is so damn unlikeable, just like everyone else in this boring piece of literature. If you’re considering reading this, do yourself a favor and do something else. Anything else.

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I‘m sorry to say that I dnf it at 40%. I really wanted to like this one as much as „A Head Full of Ghosts“, but it was not endearing, scary or thrilling at all. I don’t see how Stephen King was scared as he says on the cover. Note to self: Stop reading Mr. King’s recommendations as I’m more often than not disappointed

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