Tom's Crossing

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Hard to figure how so much awful horror could've started out with just them two horses and not a one yet named... From the bestselling author of House of Leaves comes a magisterial novel about two friends determined to rescue a pair of horses set for slaughter. While folks still like to focus on the crimes that shocked the small city of Orvop, Utah, back in the fall of 1982, not to mention the trials that followed, far more remember the adventure that took place beyond municipal lines. For sure no one expected the dead to rise, but they did. No one expected the mountain to fall either, but it did. No one expected an act of courage so great, and likewise so appalling, that it still staggers the heart and mind of anyone who knows anything about the Katanogos massif, to say nothing of Pillars Meadow. As one Orvop high school teacher described that extraordinary feat just days before she died, Fer sure no one expected Kalin March to look Old Porch in the eye and tell him: You get what you deserve when you ride with cowards.

Var poängen kommer ifrån

Källorna ger i snitt 9,1 över 22 betyg — ännu inte så många, så läsarnas röst väger 11 % och resten dras mot medelvärdet 7,8 för Rankningar. Så blir det 8,1.

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De mest gillade recensionerna på Hardcover (med angivna författare).

• EN

  “I kept thinking, "how the heck is he going to stick this landing?" And he DID. Loved the epic meandering storytelling (not sure how Landry put it exactly). Loved all the allusions to other things (MZD's other works, but also art and literature and mythology). Loved how everyone had a very specific death, and yeah, to encounter all those by the end of the book, it's like, okay, death is unique but also mundane. Only one death was contradicted (that I noticed, because it happened within the same 2-page spread, which made me think, shit, was that intentional to show she was an unreliable narra…”

  ★ 5/5radioactive_piano på Hardcover

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