A Winter Haunting by Dan Simmons (ISBN:0380817160)

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		A Winter Haunting
	
				(17 reviews)			
(352 Readers)

			Dan Simmons		
	
A once-respected college professor and novelist, Dale Stewart has sabotaged his career and his marriage -- and now darkness is closing in on him. In...more
 A once-respected college professor and novelist, Dale Stewart has sabotaged his career and his marriage -- and now darkness is closing in on him. In the last hours of Halloween he has returned to the dying town of Elm Haven, his boyhood home, where he hopes to find peace in isolation. But moving into a long-deserted farmhouse on the far outskirts of town -- the one-time residence of a strange and brilliant friend who lost his young life in a grisly "accident" back in the terrible summer of 1960 -- is only the latest in his long succession of recent mistakes. Because Dale is not alone here. He has been followed to this house of shadows by private demons who are now twisting his reality into horrifying new forms. And a thick, blanketing early snow is starting to fall ...   less

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							A Reader
						
							few weeks ago						
Not as interesting as Summer of Night, but the story was good and it was written well.

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							A Reader
						
							few weeks ago						
Dan Simmons is a great writer and this is a fantastic follow up to his novel, The Summer of Night. A gripping ghost story that'll keep you turning the pages, you might not want to start this one late at night.

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							A Reader
						
							few weeks ago						
Godawful "sequel" to Summer of Night (which was excellent.)  Not only does Simmons re-write the characters in the first book, but the inclusion of magic makes you wonder; why the hell didn't this happen in the first book?  I've also never seen so much product placement in a novel before.  A really disappointing effort from an otherwise solid novelist.

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							A Reader
						
							few weeks ago						
A meandering follow up to the "Summer of night". I know that it cannot be the same book all over again and it is an interesting take on the follow up idea, but it just left me a bit cold.

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							A Reader
						
							few weeks ago						
Felt this was a total waste of my precious reading time! Could have been spending time reading the back of a creal box! was that harsh......ok..I'm in a mood...I love his other books that's why I'm mad. Disappointment, anger..leads to mood swings. It's as if some other hack author hijacked his book.

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							A Reader
						
							few weeks ago						
this book had some interesting ideas but didn't keep my interest. there were too many gaps in the story, i couldn't sympathise with the main character, i couldn't have cared less about the death of his friend 30yrs previously and couldn't understand the motivation of the man staying at the farmhouse. to finish the book, i ended up staying up all night (in the hope it might become interesting)....more
 this book had some interesting ideas but didn't keep my interest. there were too many gaps in the story, i couldn't sympathise with the main character, i couldn't have cared less about the death of his friend 30yrs previously and couldn't understand the motivation of the man staying at the farmhouse. to finish the book, i ended up staying up all night (in the hope it might become interesting). the result was that i finished the book but was left feeling frustrated at the turn in events. apart from boredom, this book left no impact on me.   hide

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							A Reader
						
							few weeks ago						
Dale wants to write a novel about his youth, specifically the summer of 1960. What better place than the abandoned farm house his friend lived in until he died at the age of eleven during the summer of 1960. Ghosts and hounds and skinheads are involved.

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							Deb
						
							few weeks ago						
This is a sequel to Summer of Night, which I didn't read.  It was entertaining, with a couple of snazzy plot twists, but it wasn't particularly scary, and it was much too impressed with itself.  Simmons can allude to Henry James all he wants, but that doesn't make  him Henry James.

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							Sanja
						
							few weeks ago						
Would make a great movie this one. Really scary!

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							A Reader
						
							few weeks ago						
Need some editing, and it's more mystery than horror, but not bad at all.

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