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olicooper1 's review for:
The Troop
by Nick Cutter
I finished this book. Honestly, I have no idea why this book has such a high rating. Was I reading the same book as everyone else?
The book didn't scare me. It never got me on the edge of my seat. It did not interest me. It did not entertain me. If I could give it a lower rating I would.
What did this book manage? It did have me questioning the age of these boys for a hundred pages or so... physical descriptions would have me believe these were pre-teens, but the insults they hurled at each other were on par with seven year olds. I know some 12 year old boys. This is not how they speak to each other. The dialogue is just unbelievable. They tell each other to 'fuck off' a few times and make crude penis jokes--as boys this age would, right?-- only to turn around and use these mature insults: 'tinkle-dink,' 'pork-chop,' or 'creepazoid.'
It did have me questioning the reliability of these characters. What terribly stupid things were done, all in order to advance the plot. Seriously, how far could this story have gotten without the incredibly moronic behavior of these characters?
It did give me pause, when I came upon yet another strange metaphor.Starting the book, I had to stop every paragraph because the author slid in some obscure metaphor that didn't quite fit. There are other ways to be descriptive.
And most of all, it did creep me out. It did gross me out. And then, I kind of wanted to vomit. So, CONGRATULATIONS Nick Cutter! You've successfully wrote a horror novel if you can make your reader vomit with disgust!--no? As I see it, the 'horror' generated in this novel is mustered up in 2 ways: 1. The descriptions of how afraid the characters are, like how REALLY afraid they feel, will make the reader afraid; and 2. grossness. For the record, the first way only managed to annoy me, and the second only managed to gross me out. Gore and shock value, does not a horror novel make.
The book didn't scare me. It never got me on the edge of my seat. It did not interest me. It did not entertain me. If I could give it a lower rating I would.
What did this book manage? It did have me questioning the age of these boys for a hundred pages or so... physical descriptions would have me believe these were pre-teens, but the insults they hurled at each other were on par with seven year olds. I know some 12 year old boys. This is not how they speak to each other. The dialogue is just unbelievable. They tell each other to 'fuck off' a few times and make crude penis jokes--as boys this age would, right?-- only to turn around and use these mature insults: 'tinkle-dink,' 'pork-chop,' or 'creepazoid.'
It did have me questioning the reliability of these characters. What terribly stupid things were done, all in order to advance the plot. Seriously, how far could this story have gotten without the incredibly moronic behavior of these characters?
It did give me pause, when I came upon yet another strange metaphor.Starting the book, I had to stop every paragraph because the author slid in some obscure metaphor that didn't quite fit. There are other ways to be descriptive.
And most of all, it did creep me out. It did gross me out. And then, I kind of wanted to vomit. So, CONGRATULATIONS Nick Cutter! You've successfully wrote a horror novel if you can make your reader vomit with disgust!--no? As I see it, the 'horror' generated in this novel is mustered up in 2 ways: 1. The descriptions of how afraid the characters are, like how REALLY afraid they feel, will make the reader afraid; and 2. grossness. For the record, the first way only managed to annoy me, and the second only managed to gross me out. Gore and shock value, does not a horror novel make.