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Carregando... Mystery (original: 1990; edição: 1990)de Peter Straub (Autor)
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Registre-se no LibraryThing tpara descobrir se gostará deste livro. Ainda não há conversas na Discussão sobre este livro. I enjoyed the book "Ghost Story," so I thought I'd try another by this author, but this one didn't do it for me. As Tom Pasmore pursues his sleuthing, he encounters crazy characters and strange occurrences. Some of these pertain to the storyline; some were thrown in and didn't make much sense to me. Just not my type of book, I guess. Tom es un chico de diez años que, investigando, es atropellado por un coche en los suburbios de la ciudad y es que él parece acostumbrado a la buena vida. Observa cómo su corazón deja de latir y cómo ve su cuerpo desde fuera, contempla cómo sería su vida futura y pensando ya en olvidarse del dolor por su cuerpo mellado, decide morir mentalmente, pero se lleva una sorpresa ya que amanece en un hospital donde pasará muchas penurias durante un año hasta conseguir volver a andar y a llevar una vida normal y autosuficiente. El chico, durante ese tiempo, se dedica a leer a los clásicos y a los menos clásicos. Después, regresa al colegio y a la vida normal, pero él ha cambiado. Un hombre al que llaman la sombra quiere tener una conversación muy interesante con él. sem resenhas | adicionar uma resenha
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A near-fatal traffic accident and a resulting obsession with death drive Tom Pasmore to join his neighbor, famous retired detective Lamont von Heilitz, in investigating two very different murders. Não foram encontradas descrições de bibliotecas. |
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Early in the story, Tom, already somewhat of a bookworm (probably as an escape from a homelife where his parents both drinks and his 'fragile' mother often has screaming fits), travels to the other side of town to investigate something which puzzles him. A man had arrived at his house throwing rocks until Tom's grandfather, there on a visit, had persuaded him to leave. Tom catches the man's address and hitches a ride to try to discover what grudge the man has against his family. Unfortunately, the man sends some boys after him with knives and when he runs into traffic to escape them, he suffers a serious accident.
Recuperating in Shady Mount hospital, he forms a bond with two nurses and is visited by an eccentric neighbour, Lamont van Helitz, who brings him plenty of classic detective fiction to read. Seven years later, as a 17 year old on the verge of graduating from high school, he is drawn into an investigation of the corruption and brutality that lie just beneath the surface of the ruling class, when van Helitz recruits him to assist in an investigation. His grandfather "suggests" that he spend the summer in his old lodge at a private lake resort in the USA - none of the family have been back there since the mid 1920s, though the grandfather is not honest about what has really kept them away. The Redwings spend every summer there and it is supposed to be an opportunity for Tom to ingratiate himself with the island's ruling class, but he is more interested in looking into a murder that took place there in 1925, and in romancing Sarah Spence, a young woman who everyone else expects to marry the boorish son of the Redwings.
I loved the relationship between Tom and his mentor and also with Sarah Spence. There were also some well sketched minor characters such as Barbara Deane, the woman with s a secret past, connected to his grandfather and to the machinations of the island's rulers, and who now lives at the town near the resort and looks after the empty lodge. The book is also a beautiful homage to classic crime fiction, mostly the stories of Sherlock Holmes, whom van Helitz resembles. Tom himself is a very untypical teenager, but given his weird upbringing, whole year spent in hospital where he was hardly visited by his parents, and the family inheritance that eventually is revealed, I didn't find that difficult to accept. All in all I loved the book as much as the first time I read it, even though I did remember the sad fate of one character, and am very pleased to award it 5 stars. ( )