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 Firecracker - Sean Stewart
Description: ISBN 0753820595 / Author: Sean Stewart / Genre: Fiction Newest Review: ... her ghost is bound and gagged and that the man is training a gun on Will? Even though the book seems to have a central ... more  ... premise of watching Will embark on a new career in ghost hunting, it unfolds a lot differently. Will has so many emotional problems, and conflicts with his relatives, that the book is as much about these dynamics as it is ghosts. If the characters you were dealing with fell into the sympathetic bracket this could prove an interesting fleshing out process, but this is not the case here. The book is set in Houston, Texas and is populated with the type of red necks and white trash you may expect to see in ‘King of the Hi...more |
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Firecracker - Sean Stewart: Snap, Firecrackle, then Plop (723 words)
by samueltyler - written on 01.12.06 (Very useful, 84 readings)
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It sometimes seems that everyone can see dead people except for me. The ‘ghost seer’ genre has sprung up everywhere; from film (The Sixth Sense), TV (Medium, The Dead Zone and Ghost Whisperer), to fiction (Odd Thomas). In most of the cases shown here the main hero does their best to try and help those who are troubled by the undead, but surely seeing dead people would more likely leave you emotionally and psychologically scarred than a superhero? This happens to be the case with Will Kennedy who throughout his life has had the ‘pleasure’ of witnessing the dead. Rather than become a millionaire ghost hunter, Will has become a bit of a bum. In his 30s, he ...
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