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DON'T SLOW DOWN

Victoria McQueen has an uncanny knack for finding things: a misplaced bracelet, a missing photograph, answers to unanswerable questions. When she rides her bicycle over the rickety old covered bridge in the woods near her house, she always emerges in the places she needs to be. Vic doesn't tell anyone about her unusual ability, because she knows no one will believe her. She has trouble understanding it herself.

Charles Talent Manx has a gift of his own. He likes to take children for rides in his 1938 Rolls-Royce Wraith with the vanity plate NOS4A2. In the Wraith, he and his innocent guests can slip out of the everyday world and onto hidden roads that lead to an astonishing playground of amusements he calls Christmasland. Mile by mile, the journey across the highway of Charlie's twisted imagination transforms his precious passengers, leaving them as terrifying and unstoppable as their benefactor.

And then comes the day when Vic goes looking for trouble... and finds her way, inevitably, to Charlie.

That was a lifetime ago. Now, the only kid ever to escape Charlie's unmitigated evil is all grown up and desperate to forget.

But Charlie Manx hasn't stopped thinking about the exceptional Victoria McQueen. On the road again, he won't slow down until he's taken his revenge. He's after something very special - something Vic can never replace.

As a life-and-death battle of wills builds - her magic pitted against his - Vic McQueen prepares to destroy Charlie once and for all... or die trying...

Joe Hill's acclaimed works of fiction, Horns, Heart-Shaped Box, and 20th Century Ghosts, have already earned him international acclaim. With NOS4A2, this outstanding novelist - "one of America's finest horror writers" (Time magazine); "a major player in 21st-century fantastic fiction" (Washington Post) - crafts his finest work yet. Disturbing, mesmerizing, and full of twisting thrills, Hill's phantasmagoric, devilishly playful masterpiece is a terrifying high-octane ride.

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Enjoy your reading! We're looking forward to discuss ;)

I've started this today. I'm only in the first chapter, but it already caught me! I could feel my eyes open like a pair of fried eggs. I have the impression that that will be my default expression for the rest of the book :P

Jeshu wrote: my eyes open like a pair of fried eggs. I have the impression that that will be my default expression ..."


Love that comment.. I wish i cld read this :@ got no money to get it :(

boo :(

i hope someone else joins in the reading, though

I'm halfway through it. I love it, but I feel that it's getting too long and sometimes drags... well it happens to the best authors so :P

I DREAMT WITH THIS FRIKKIN BOOK AND THEN I COULDN'T SLEEP

Lol Jeshu, did it invade your dreams? Or should I say nightmares?

I tried this author before with his début, Heart-Shaped Box, but it just didn't work for me - probably due to the dragging thing.

Would you recommend this one?

I don't know.
I rated it four stars, because the story is very well crafted, and the narrative is excellent. The characters are vivid, and there are no details that are put there "just because". Everything fits. The problem is that it caused me a HUGE anxiety, and I thought it was never going to end. It might be the problem I had with the genre more than the author itself.

I guess I recommend it, because it's fun. Unless your anxiety gets in the way, as it was in my case.