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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:
3.0 out of 5 stars
mixed emotions on this one,
By A Customer
This review is from: Whitechurch (Paperback)
The first chapter really pulls you in...and the aspects of a "love" triangle is great, but as the story progresses the plot falls off. I was waiting for an explosive confrontation between the characters that never came.I adore Lnych's novels, especially Slot Machine and Extreme Elvin, and this one just didn't live up to my expectations. I hope you will try it yourself, perhaps you'll have a better time than I did...certainly don't pass up _Slot Machine_ or _Extreme Elvin_.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Read it again, Sam.,
This review is from: Whitechurch (Paperback)
I whined to my friends about this book as I read the first few chapters. I hated it, but I have never stopped reading a book. I always finish what I start. Boy am I glad that's my mentality.I don't know what did it, but something happened during the chapter called "Will." The chapter really wasn't any better than all of the ones before it, but I suddenly found myself really pulled into the characters. I mean that. You will neve be pulled into the story. The book is a bundle of short stories and poems. The chapters do not really follow through until the end of the book when everything explodes into a Fourth of July firework show. It's a powerful book about powerful characters. These characters are three teens, two boys and a girl. They are quite real and could easily be real considering some of the recent happenings in the news. I actually wouldn't mind knowing any of them. Well, there is one that I would watch really carefully. That character is the one unsolvable problem of the story. We never really get to see what motivates this character. His or her (don't want to ruin it for you) family is not described so we have many questions hanging. This character isn't really even seen very often. In a way, this adds to the reality of the story. In real life, there are just some things we never know (Tennessee Williams wrote with this in mind). The poems are also distracting until the very end when everything suddenly makes sense. Another reviewer recommended rereading the poems are completing the book. I have to echo those words. The opening poem "Kiss" will haunt me forever. The first time you read it, it's easy to forget. After reading the entire story and then reading the poem again: Boo.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars
Whitechurch suggests much more than it says,
By Lloyd Litke (Edmonton, Canada) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Whitechurch (Hardcover)
I enjoyed Lynch's "Whitechurch", but I felt a bit like a voyeur as I read it. The book focusses on the three main characters' desires and weaknesses, and the foreshadowing had me repelled and hypnotised simultaneously. The teenage characters seemed real to me: they are pitiful, yet somehow powerful at the same time. The characters in this book often do not do what we readers would like them to do, but doesn't that just sound like "real life"? A good read with a realistic ending.
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