Harvest Home by Thomas Tryon Summary and Reviews
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Book Reviews of Harvest Home
Book Review: Best book ever...
Summary: 5 Stars
Violet Dawn
I can proudly say that I own "Harvest Home" and "The Other" by Thomas Tryon. This gifted writer has, in my opinion, not received the recognition that is truly due him. "Harvest Home" is written so well that one senses they are watching a movie instead of reading -- it's that descriptive! I truly believe that he was ever bit as good as Stephen King and Koontz! And I am an avid fan of both. Definitely five stars for this work.
Book Review: Harvest Home
Summary: 5 Stars
I read this book a long time ago, I loved it, I bought it for my husband, it's a classic. It came so fast I couldn't believe it. Plus it was in excellent condition.
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Suzi Robinson
Book Review: Harvest Yawn
Summary: 3 Stars
Harvest Home, by Thomas Tryon was written well. The first two hundred pages is filled with wonderful descriptions of life in a small village vs. living in New York, like city mice, moving to the country. It's vivid descriptions are wonderful. The characters are well developed and you'll like Ned, the main artist of the story.
The book jacket says to remember that this book is so scary that you'll have to remind yourself that it's just a book. I didn' have this feeling. I was really expecting a creepy, spooky story, but never did I get the feeling of having to tell myself that it was just a book. I struggled to finish it. The action begins toward the end, and for me it was very predictable and rather outdated, but I could see how, in the 1970's it was probably relatively creepy.
If you like to read about strange, remote villages and pagan practices then you may like this book. If your looking for something a little stronger in the creepy, horror department, I would skip this book.
Book Review: If You Liked The Film 'The Village', Read This Novel
Summary: 3 Stars
Harvest Home is not, despite frequent mislabeling, a horror novel. It is, however, a fairly good psychological tale that showcases its author's inventiveness and in the Widow gives the reader the delightful chance to know the sort of finely-crafted character rarely in evidence in contemporary fiction. Harvest Home is imaginative and unique, slightly puzzling, and in its own way horrific if not horrifying. Harvest Home also takes its time and moves along at an unhurried pace, not giving a lot of bang for the buck compared to later examples of the genre but offering in exchange a brooding claustrophobia, ever-present and similar to that which Shirley Jackson achieved in The Haunting of Hill House. What the intelligent plot of Harvest Home excels at is in its setting, its quietly layered story about a community which has successfully refused to be overwritten by the forces of society outside it. The residents of the Coombe have not so much escaped modern ways as sidestepped the taint of them via longstanding avoidance, and in so doing have clung to some very old and highly sanguine ways of doing things. Harvest Home is not "must read" literature but it does re-pay the investment of time and patience necessary to reach the end of its carefully-wrought tale.Book Review: Lost 70's Classic
Summary: 5 Stars
Though it doesn't exactly portray pagan/ wiccan worship in a positive light, this is one of my favourite horror novels. Vastly underrated, it has an elegance and sense of dread that put it, if not quite in the company of The Haunting of Hill House (Penguin Classics), then at least with great classy creep-outs like The House Next Door. Not much in the way of blood and guts but such a neat, quiet sense of dawning menace and a reasonably sophisticated plot make this one to be rediscovered.
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