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5.0étoiles sur 5 KEPT ME BREATHLESS, Juil 12 2009
Par Bernie Koenig (London, Ontario Canada) - Voir tous mes commentaires
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This review is from: The Town That Forgot How to Breathe (Paperback)
Art Matters: The Art of Knowledge/The Knowledge of Art
Natural Law, Science, and the Social Construction of Reality

I recently discovered Ken Harvey and am trying to make up for lost time.
This book can be read in a number of ways, as other reviews show.
It is horror story, and old fashioned ghost story, a moral parable, a story about how technology is destroying what makes us human, a story about the revenge of nature, and a story about what it means to be one's self.

There are actually two stories going on that overlap. Doug Blackwood and his daughter Robin leave St John's for a holiday and go to a small fishing village on the coast. The village is depressed due to the closing of the Cod fishery and the processing plant.

When the troubles arise, which affect Robin, he calls his ex-wife Kim, who also comes to town. They all get caught up in the events.

There is a ghost girl in the house across from where Robert and Robin are staying. The ghost wants Robin as a permanent playmate, and, when Robin has real medical problems, they are, of course, complicated by the ghost issues.

Meanwhile, Tommy, who had been born stillborn but came to life but had brain damage draws pictures of things to come. And Old Miss Laracy keeps people grounded with her tales and ability to see spirits.

When all kinds of old drowned people appear it is Miss Laracy who can identify them. The dead people are all related to the people in the town who develop an inability to breathe. And with the loss of breathe comes a loss of identity.

People dig up old records and determine that something like this happened 70 years before, just when all kinds of electrical communications were being used.

In all a complex read that works on many levels, especially with regard to the identity of both the people and the places of the Newfoundland Outports.
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2.0étoiles sur 5 Unfulfilling Thriller, Juil 28 2008
Par Karl Shawfield (Vancouver, Canada) - Voir tous mes commentaires
This review is from: The Town That Forgot How to Breathe (Paperback)
This book is practically begging to be turned into an M Night Shyamalan movie. It starts out as a captivating and mysterious story, but as more and more stock characters are introduced and the action heats up, it seems like Harvey didn't really know how to wrap things up and we're left with a rather boring and nonsensical thriller, which then degenerates further into a polemic against electricity. The comparisons to Alistair McLeod are very misleading.
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1.0étoiles sur 5 The Town That Forgot How to Breathe, Aoû 28 2007
This review is from: The Town That Forgot How to Breathe (Paperback)
This is one of the worst books I've ever read. I kept reading to give it a chance and I did finish it. I've heard Harvey is such a good author and representative of the Newfoundland voice. Well, I find his writing repetitive and flat but not flat in a good and interesting way. I kept hoping it would get better. I really did. I understand that magic realism is at play in this novel and I enjoy a well written magic realism story but this isn't one. The plot was interesting but predictable and not fleshed out so that I kept feeling hammered over the head with the underlying theme of the book and the reason for the town "dying". And the title....oh couldn't someone have helped with the title?

I'll try some of his other books to give him another chance but I did not enjoy this one. Sorry.
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"The people react against the invading culture or the loss of identity. A mass hypnosis kicks in, one that everybody believes because they have to, in order to survive... Read more
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5.0étoiles sur 5 Interesting!
Town That Forgot How To Breathe by talented Canadian writer Kenneth J. Harvey is an interesting book I had trouble putting down after I began reading it. Read more
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"The people react against the invading culture or the loss of identity. A mass hypnosis kicks in, one that everybody believes because they have to, in order to survive... Read more
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5.0étoiles sur 5 what a whirlwind
This book swept me up and wouldn't let go.
Great descriptions of life in Newfoundland
and tons of characters. It's funny, scary,
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