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Post by killercrab on Jun 17, 2010 23:37:31 GMT
Started reading this again today - I left it halfway through about a year back so any retelling of the plot in detail I'll leave to others! Basically the story revolves around Ulver island where the *master* resides. The story runs as two strands - one in the present - the other in the past. They mirror each other about characters trapped on this haunted isle and their predicaments. It's pretty atypical Guy N Smith ( which is why I might of burn't out on it last attempt). I'll try and finish it up this shot.
Anyone else read it?
KC
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Post by Johnlprobert on Jun 18, 2010 6:58:05 GMT
Is that the one about the chap going to live on an isolated island and then this bunch of girl scouts arriving who've got lost? Only they're not actually girl scouts but are ...
You might not have got that far yet
It's a long time since I read that - all in one go on a train trip from Nottingham to Penzance. Grim ending if I recall.
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Post by dem bones on Jun 18, 2010 7:40:21 GMT
Is that the one about the chap going to live on an isolated island and then this bunch of girl scouts arriving who've got lost? Only they're not actually girl scouts but are ... that's the one! The Island
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Post by andydecker on Jun 18, 2010 11:29:34 GMT
I read it some months ago and liked it a lot. If I ever had any plans for a vacation of an island off the coast, this healed me One tends to put GNS into a niche - oh, the crab-guy -, but I am constantly pleasantly surprised how varied his plots are. If you compare him to todays novelist who write the same book a dozen times - and woe to them if they don´t - he didn´t do this. I adore his "shit happens" attitude. It would have been so easy to construct an elaborate explanation why the poor farmer in The Island is targeted by the curse or whatever it is - and in any modern movie or novel you can bet this backstory would have taken up much space -, but here it is just his bad luck.
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Post by killercrab on Jun 18, 2010 15:04:05 GMT
Oh yeah Samantha and the girl guides are on the island whilst the crofter has a chair against the door and there's somebody knocking. Jake the dog is already clued up that trouble is brewing...
KC
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Post by killercrab on Jun 18, 2010 15:09:08 GMT
I adore his "shit happens" attitude. >>
Oh yeah . I like his imagination too which for me gives Guy N Smith the *edge* over Shaun Hutson . Admittedly I've not read a whole slew of Hutson yet though I do dig his books I've read!
KC
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Post by killercrab on Jun 21, 2010 15:52:06 GMT
Clive the islander gets seduced by the teenage Ruth pretending to be his wife through supernatural means? His wife's photo gets defaced sending him into a rage as he storms out the door. Later he returns to find Ruth has gone walkabout - her mother angry and jealous of the midnight liason. Halfway down the cliff face Ruth's body hangs broken on a rocky outcrop - the gulls having feasted on her eyes... GNS - he's the best. KC
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