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Lost Boys

by Orson Scott Card

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HarperCollins (1998), Mass Market Paperback, 528 pages

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Good book. Interesting, not what I expected.
Thought I had it figured out, but still surprised me. ( )
1 vote hredwards | May 18, 2009 |
This is one of the few books granted a rating of five that I will never read again. Damn you, OSC, for being able to draw me in so completely.

This is a story that allows the reader to see a family's life, the small details that might seem unconsequential, the large issues that most would like to keep covered, the love and the frustration that comes from having so close a connection with other humans. It wraps you up in the relationships, and it ends up ripping out your heart.

Be forewarned, as I was, when my husband read it first, finished it, and came to me with tears in his eyes. Read it anyway, as I did. It is worth it. ( )
2 vote HippieLunatic | Jan 19, 2008 |
8-year-old Stevie dreams of imaginary friends, whose names match a child molester and serial killer's victims. ( )
  TonySandel | Sep 15, 2007 |
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To Erin and Phillip Absher
for sharing your lives with us
and for your love and care
for Charlie Ben
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This is what his father always called him whenever he'd done something bad: "Where were you when this happened, Boy? What did you think you were doing, Boy?"
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Lost Boys (novel)

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Amazon.com Product Description (ISBN 0061091316, Mass Market Paperback)

For Step Fletcher, his pregnant wife DeAnne, and their three children, the move to tiny Steuben, North Carolina, offers new hope and a new beginning. But from the first, eight-year-old Stevie's life there is an unending parade of misery and disaster.

Cruelly ostracized at his school, Stevie retreats further and further into himself -- and into a strange computer game and a group of imaginary friends.

But there is something eerie about his loyal, invisible new playmates: each shares the name of a child who has recently vanished from the sleepy Southern town. And terror grows for Step and DeAnne as the truth slowly unfolds. For their son has found something savagely evil ... and it's coming for Stevie next.

(retrieved from Amazon Fri, 24 Apr 2009 07:58:16 -0400)

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