James Herbert
Mass Market Paperback | Pages: 460 pages Rating: 3.75 | 4017 Users | 223 Reviews
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| Original Title: | Once... |
| ISBN: | 0765343509 (ISBN13: 9780765343505) |
| Characters: | Thom Kindred |
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The International Bestseller
For Thom Kindred, life is nothing spectacular. A stroke victim, Thom finds himself partially incapacitated and battling daily to regain control of his life. Moved by haunting dreams of his youth, he travels back to the wooded land where he grew up to recuperate. Surrounded by the comforts of Castle Bracken, Thom plans to relive old, forgotten memories.
But Thom's return has stirred an ancient evil at Castle Bracken, one cloaked in the guise of a friend. His only chance for survival lies in a world that he no longer believes in.
International bestselling author James Herbert opens the door into a place of wonder and terrible danger; where the unexpected becomes the norm, where the separation of dreams and nightmares is thin, and where "Once upon a time . . ." doesn't always lead to a happy ending.
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| Title | : | Once... |
| Author | : | James Herbert |
| Book Format | : | Mass Market Paperback |
| Book Edition | : | First Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 460 pages |
| Published | : | January 20th 2003 by Tor Books (first published January 1st 2001) |
| Categories | : | Horror. Fantasy. Fiction |
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Ratings: 3.75 From 4017 Users | 223 ReviewsRate Appertaining To Books Once...
Really enjoyed this book. Recommended.I've read a few other books by Herbert, who is sometimes considered the "Stephen King of Britain", and for the most part they have been enjoyable horror tales. This one was quite a departure from his usual fare. I guess you could call it an adult erotic fairy tale. The protagonist, Thom Kindred, who is only 27, has had a stroke and needs time to recover. To do this, he goes back to his childhood home of Castle Bracken where he and his mother lived in a nearby cottage called Little Bracken.
Boy oh boy, this book is shit. Fortunately, it was a buddy read with my good friend Thomas Strömquist so I didn't have to suffer alone. Funnily enough, I asked Thomas if we could skip the book we'd initially agreed to read this month, The Venus Complex, because I wasn't in the mood for erotic horror. Thomas had also mentioned wanting to read some James Herbert. I decided on this book. Why, yes, Virginia, I am a fucking moron.I was under the impression that James Herbert was a horror author, that
The one that got away:The last few James Herbert books I read were really good. Thoughtful, interesting, atmospheric and pacey. This one however seems to have gotten away from him a little. On consideration 3 may be one too many stars. The problem is the plot is ever so slightly thin and the sex scenes are jarringly out of place within the story. They serve no purpose other than to allow the cover of the copy I read to assert that it was a dark erotic fantasy.When I was a young teenager the
Once was completely bonkers, but also utterly compelling. I'm still not sure whether I thought it was terrible or brilliant - I may take a few days to mull it over and work out which.The story follows Thom Kindred, a 27-year-old man who has suffered a stroke which has left him with a weakness down his left side. After being discharged from hospital, he returns to his childhood home deep in the Shropshire countryside to convalesce. The cottage in the woods, part of the estate belonging to his
This is probably one of my most favourite books to date. Dark fantasy based on faery folk with the approach that not all fairytales are pink and fluffy as it were. For any adult that appreciates the idea that fairytales never started off as princesses in castles but more on open lustful desires, then this is definitely worth a read!
Er...this was a book lent to me by a colleague as I wanted to read something a bit different to what I am used to. First of all-it is very easy to read. Too easy to read, really-with the language and the storylines about magic and fairy's it is like a children's book but with a lot (and I mean a lot!) of needless sex. If you took the sex out of the book, it would seriously be only about 20% of it's actual size. And the sex isn't good.The book has a very 'teenage boy-with a hard-on' vibe to it.
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