Horns

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• Horns by Joe Hill - Review by Waterstone's Books Quarterly Online

  Ignatius Perrish’s girlfriend is brutally raped and murdered. Though innocent, Perrish is widely assumed to be guilty. A year later, after a heavy night drinking, he wakes up, unsurprisingly hungover; more surprisingly, he’s sporting a set of horns a ... (read full critics)

  wbqonline published on Tue, 14 Sep 2010

• Horns by Joe Hill

  “Ignatius Martin Perrish spent the night drunk and doing terrible things. He woke the next morning with a headache, put his hands to his temples, and felt something unfamiliar, a pair of knobby pointed protuberances.” Let’s get some housekeeping out ... (read full critics)

  popmatters published on Wed, 1 Sep 2010

5 Reviews

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  Kid's got talent!

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  CuorDiPolvere said on Oct 17, 2011 | Add your feedback

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  In order to enjoy this book for the disappointment it is, I suggest the following for the over 21 crowd:

  Take one sip every time...:
  Someone exclaims any one of: "No!"; "Oh my God!” “What ARE you?”
  A character or location from a Stephen King novel is mentioned.
  You want to slap the main charact ... (continue)

  In order to enjoy this book for the disappointment it is, I suggest the following for the over 21 crowd:

  Take one sip every time...:
  Someone exclaims any one of: "No!"; "Oh my God!” “What ARE you?”
  A character or location from a Stephen King novel is mentioned.
  You want to slap the main character and tell him to man up.
  Merrin’s hair is described.
  The pace becomes inert.
  The word devil appears. (*Warning* you may get intoxicated from this action alone)
  The setting is either at the evil knieval trail or Lee’s house.
  His style of writing makes you question if he really is King’s son.
  You revisit a scene/character that has already been described ad nausea.

  Take two sips every time...:
  Plausibility exits stage right.
  Something way too convenient is revealed, but then just as quickly is dismissed.
  The narrator repeats himself.
  An animal/reptile dies.
  After countless pages of unnecessary descriptions of inanimate objects and places, you realize he is King’s son.
  You can predict the outcome of each introduced character. (*Warning* this happens with every character)
  You yawn, doze off, skim, or rub your temple in frustration.

  Down the bottle every time …:
  You feel a headache coming on because just as it was starting to get interesting, Hill slips into the past without even a head’s up or Scooby effect.
  You start screaming, “Ok, but why does he have horns?!”

  *And for all you tolerant drinkers out there who haven’t had enough, I DARE you to drink every time you think a question, any question, is going to be answered...

  *Sidenote:
  If you’ve found one likeable/fleshed-out character in this book – you’ve drank too much. Step away from the computer and dial 9-1-1.

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  Clementine said on May 20, 2011 about the Hardcover edition | Add your feedback

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  Great story, but falls short

  This book definitely had a very different and interesting concept. What I did not expect was the comedy that went along with it. Ig’s new found power (which took me a bit to figure out what it was) is an interesting gift, and could potentially be either; very dangerous, hurtful, or downright hilario ... (continue)

  This book definitely had a very different and interesting concept. What I did not expect was the comedy that went along with it. Ig’s new found power (which took me a bit to figure out what it was) is an interesting gift, and could potentially be either; very dangerous, hurtful, or downright hilarious. Throughout the first bits of the book I couldn’t stop laughing. The moments of Ig’s childhood years (the shopping cart incident) and the situation with the two policemen made me laugh, and kept me reading the book. Yet there were serious moments too, with Ig finding out the truth about Merrin and her death, who was really behind it, and the real true feelings of people close to him (like his parents). It’s a bit shocking, to read how his parents really felt of the situation surrounding Ig and at a certain point of the book I really felt sorry for him.

  The first half of the book was really enjoyable to read. The middle part where it focuses on Ig, Merrin, and Lee wasn’t so bad. Lee’s a jerk. A real jealous one. I never really liked him to begin with and when you see his true colors, I hated him even more. Ig was such a nice guy and Lee just took advantage of that and stepped all over him. I liked Ig as a character although throughout the second half of the book he just got really strange and started behaving rather odd. This is where I thought the book was rather stuck in a rut and it suddenly dragged. I felt the pace of the book just stopped all of a sudden and started to crawl.

  The ending was good and after that rut, the pace starting picking up a bit. I was definitely unprepared for the ending and it caught me by surprise. When I finished this book, I wasn’t sure how I felt. I had an empty feeling, I guess because the ending wasn’t what I expected, but also because I thought perhaps it could have ended differently. For a book that had such a promising start, the ending lacked the punch to finish it.

  I would still say, give this book a chance. The idea and concept is really entertaining and interesting. If you don’t mind reading through the little stall in the middle of the book you’ll find the book isn’t so bad after all. Even though to me, it had a disappointing ending, but read it to be entertained and to have a laugh. It’s certainly worth a look through.

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  Sensitivemuse said on Dec 8, 2010 about the Hardcover edition | Add your feedback

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  An amazing travel through the depths of the mind of a formerly really nice young man who loses all (except for his wordly possessions) when he is accused to have murdered and raped (probably in this order) his former girlfriend. Creepy at times, very often moving, always beautiful.

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  Marco Piva said on Oct 18, 2010 about the Hardcover edition | Add your feedback

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  Intriguing and Beautifully Written.

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  Randall Flagg said on Jul 26, 2010 about the Hardcover edition | Add your feedback

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• English Books
• Paperback 448 Pages
• Edition: 1
• ISBN-10: 0575099992
• ISBN-13: 9780575099999
• Publisher: Gollancz
• Pub date: Jan 01, 2011
• Dimensions: 1277 mm x 826 mm x 207 mm Just how big is that?
• Also available as: Hardcover and eBook
• In other languages: other languages 简体书, Deutsche Bücher, Libros en Español, Libri Italiani, Česká kniha, Polskie Książki

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