Chuck Caruso
Autore di The Lawn Job
Opere di Chuck Caruso
Etichette
Informazioni generali
- Nome legale
- Caruso, John Charles
- Sesso
- male
- Nazionalità
- USA
- Nazione (per mappa)
- USA
- Luogo di nascita
- Yuba City, California, USA
- Luogo di residenza
- Seattle, Washington, USA
- Attività lavorative
- Author
- Breve biografia
- Chuck Caruso, 19th-century Americanist and Edgar Allan Poe scholar, teaches in the Department of English at Marylhurst University. As an author of dark genre fiction, Caruso’s horror tales have been published in Cemetery Dance, Shroud, and Dark Discoveries, among other print magazines and anthologies. His western noir tales have been published by The Big Adios, Shotgun Honey, Flash Fiction Offensive, The Western Online and Fires on the Plain. The Lawn Job is his first published novel. Caruso lives in Vancouver, Washington. [Cloud Lodge Books]
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Questa recensione è stata scritta per Recensori in anteprima di LibraryThing.I received this audiobook in exchange for an HONEST review.
The story is about an ex-con who loses his “lawn jobs” and tries for a big score. Nothing new along the lines of originality here…
The story was very simplistic and straight forward. I can see where the author tried to make plot twists but most of them did not work for me.
As for the narrator……very monotone and he seemed very uninterested in what he was reading.
The recording quality was also lacking which really stands out when wearing headphones. They say the narrator can make a bad book good or a good book bad...
Story: 1.5 stars
Narration: 1/2 star
Total: 2 stars… (altro)
The story is about an ex-con who loses his “lawn jobs” and tries for a big score. Nothing new along the lines of originality here…
The story was very simplistic and straight forward. I can see where the author tried to make plot twists but most of them did not work for me.
As for the narrator……very monotone and he seemed very uninterested in what he was reading.
The recording quality was also lacking which really stands out when wearing headphones. They say the narrator can make a bad book good or a good book bad...
Story: 1.5 stars
Narration: 1/2 star
Total: 2 stars… (altro)
Questa recensione è stata scritta per Recensori in anteprima di LibraryThing.Oh my gosh... what a mess of stories. This collection has 16 stories. Frankly, if it hadn't been a Library Thing Early Reviewer copy, I would have stopped after the 2nd or 3rd story. Most of the stories end abruptly, or feel as if they don't have a real ending at all. There are POV issues, and tense issues.
There are a couple of stories in the last half that are worth reading. "Snapshots from a Family Album" and "Hellfire are good", and "They'll Call me Whistlin Pete" isn't bad, but overall, this is a disappointing collection.
Beyond the issues with the content, there's a formatting problem. The author has chosen to begin each story on an odd-numbered page, even though this is an e-book. So periodically, there's an extra page, to accommodate the odd-page start. While this might be desirable in print format, where you have left side and right side pages, there's no reason to apply this practice in an e-book.… (altro)
There are a couple of stories in the last half that are worth reading. "Snapshots from a Family Album" and "Hellfire are good", and "They'll Call me Whistlin Pete" isn't bad, but overall, this is a disappointing collection.
Beyond the issues with the content, there's a formatting problem. The author has chosen to begin each story on an odd-numbered page, even though this is an e-book. So periodically, there's an extra page, to accommodate the odd-page start. While this might be desirable in print format, where you have left side and right side pages, there's no reason to apply this practice in an e-book.… (altro)
Questa recensione è stata scritta per Recensori in anteprima di LibraryThing.Tales of perversity is right, but not my kind. Lots of blood and vengeance, sometimes taken out on the wrong person (and sometimes not), in different settings from old West to modern community college.
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Statistiche
- Opere
- 3
- Utenti
- 25
- Popolarità
- #508,561
- Voto
- 2.5
- Recensioni
- 11
- ISBN
- 4
Some of these stories are really short, and most of the plots are familiar and ordinary. The stories had a tendency to abruptly end...too abruptly as they feel rather unfinished. It seemed more like I was reading Mr. Caruso's notes on plots for stories rather than completed stories themselves. A good short story can be a difficult thing to pull off -- and he does ok on occasion. Mr. Caruso just misses more than he hits and in those stories, the reader is left hanging with no sense of closure.… (altro)