The night strangers christopher bohjalian epub

You will be told this time and time again. You will read it ad infinitum, ad nauseam on every other page. You are beaten over the head This was utterly terrifying. You are beaten over the head with this phrase, probably because the crash scene was spectacular and the rest of the book is about as exciting as pairing up your socks after laundry day. I took two long haul flights in the midst of reading this and although I have flown many times I was extra nervous.

I never used to be scared of flying, but in the last few years this intense fear of strapping myself into a tin can and catapulting myself across the ocean has developed. There is no common sense behind it, I'm well aware that it's the safest mode of transport and that turbulence is normal, but after reading the opening passage of this story I'm now bloody terrified of taking off too. Ask my son whose hands were crushed for a good 10 minutes whilst I tried not to cry and desperately wished I was anywhere else.

I did calm down of course, drank a glass of red wine, tried to watch an awful film and eventually fell asleep for the next 3 hours of the flight, before being woken up by the child behind me who'd decided that kicking my chair was a new Olympic sport. You get the picture. A nine and a half hour, claustrophobic, noisy bit of hell, made all that much worse by reading the opening of this story where, if you'll remember, flight crashed into Lake Champlain.

That's praise, by the way. When a tale encroaches on your real life, makes you think, makes you worry or makes you want to swallow your own toungue out of fear, that is great writing. What the hell happened to the rest of the book? Unfortunately the rest of this story was lacklustre, uninspired and incredibly dull. We do not properly see the effects of PTSD on Chip Linton because, just in case you forgot, his flight crashed into Lake Champlain or on his family. Instead we are introduced to supernatural elements disguised as PTSD and are met with a cast of unmemorable town people who love gardening.

Ho hum. This is the most bland coven you'll ever meet and Chip's 'haunting' is somehow missed by everyone. The conclusion was curt and unemotional, the protagonist's endings, some cruel, were all neatly tied up with a sterile bow. I gave this 2 stars for the plane crash scene, which will haunt me for a long time, and for the audible narration which was very good, despite having to listen to it at x1.

Don't read this expecting it to be about Night Strangers, bizarrely the title and the story have nothing to do with each other. Don't read this if you are scared of flying. Don't read this if you are averse to repetitive, rambling stories. Did I mention that flight crashed into Lake Champlain? View all 6 comments. Oct 21, Jennifer rated it did not like it Shelves: , paranormal. Suggestions to the author: -You do realize that your title kind of has nothing to do with your story, right?

So, bravo! You hate your readers so much you gave them that ending? I don't require happy endings, but come on. I knew it was dangerous to trust the locals about pages before the main characters did And that's saying something. View 2 comments. Nov 17, Matt rated it liked it Shelves: mystery , horror. This Halloween season, I went big with my seasons-readings.

One thousand pages of kids-verses-evil. It is a big undertaking to read, even with an effortless storyteller like King. Surprisingly, when I finished, I realized there was still some October left.

So I decided to pick a second spook-story to round out the fall. I wanted a palate cleanser, something different from the grand guignol excesses of It. I wanted a simple Gothic ghost story, a boo This Halloween season, I went big with my seasons-readings. I wanted a simple Gothic ghost story, a book along the lines of The Turn of the Screw , except enjoyable. What I like from my spook-stories is subtlety. Most of the time, though, I prefer the creeping dread and eerie chills you get from old fashioned ghost stories involving good old fashioned ghosts.

In the beginning, at least, The Night Strangers really hit that sweet spot. It begins as the story of a man unraveling in the wake of a tragedy. That man is Captain Chip Linton, an airline pilot who is at the controls when his Bombardier CRJ regional jet hits a flock of birds. Like Chesley Sullenberger, who is referenced several times, Chip attempts to ditch his plane in the water — this time Lake Champlain rather than the Hudson. Following the accident, Chip, his wife Emily, and their twin daughters, purchase a Victorian house in northern New Hampshire.

Here, Chip begins to crack at the seams. He finds a door in the house sealed with thirty-nine 39!!!! He begins to see ghosts — dead passengers from his plane. The apparitions want something from him, and over time, Chip seems willing to give it to them. He does not, unfortunately. The herbalists are an irritating, witch-like group who call each other by botanical names and are by turns pushy, curious, and insistent.

To dwell upon the herbalist narrative strand to much would be to venture into spoiler territory. Suffice it to say, the mythical mystical powers of twins, and the fortunes of a coven of plant-nuts interested in those twins, are quite boring to me. Accordingly, my enthusiasm for The Night Strangers waned with each page, as the herbalist plot took center stage. The strangest thing about this book is how it feels like two separate novels happening in the same place, at the same time.

The haunted house plot and the herbalist plot never really intertwine or inform each other. They both unspool simultaneously but independently. By the end, it simply seemed like Chip was the unluckiest sap to ever ski the slopes of New Hampshire. First he crashes his plane. Then he gets haunted by his dead passengers.

And out of left field he has to deal with a bunch of green-thumbed jerks who act a lot like a coven. Bohjalian is unquestionably an above-average writer. I didn't get much mileage out of his plotting or structuring, but I enjoyed the heck out of his set pieces.

You hear them through the metal door of the flight deck. Others are already dead, though you will learn this only later, because when the plane bangs back into the water the second time, it breaks into halves and the passengers in rows ten through fourteen are slammed headfirst into the fuselage as it collapses or are decapitated by the jagged metal edges.

Others are starting to drown that very instant as the lake water…begins filling the two halves of the blackened cabin. In order to make the crash as authentic as possible, Bohjalian got himself simulation time at Survival Systems USA, which put him in a flight deck upside down and underwater. I didn't love this novel, but I love that kind of effort. The Night Strangers also has a chilling and effective ending.

The best way I can describe this novel, I suppose, is to say it is really average and forgettable, except when it was really great and memorable. Jul 27, Lou rated it it was amazing Shelves: paranormal , horror , other-beings , october-reading. Imagine yourself a pilot of a passenger aircraft, a trip you have made hundreds of times something that you become so used to doing.

On one occasion you are the captain of a particular plane and not far from landing to your destination, mid-air suddenly a flock of Geese hit your turbines and all driving power is lost of the aircraft. It nose dives and time is everything with no possibility of landing the plane safely on solid ground the only place to land is the stretch of sea beneath you.

What Imagine yourself a pilot of a passenger aircraft, a trip you have made hundreds of times something that you become so used to doing. What can you do? Your best chance is to try to land safely on the sea, which is not something you have been trained for due to being a procedure of a rare occurrence. It all ends devastatingly bad and the plane hits the water with deadly speed and impact, all is lost 39 people die and you survive.

It great to survive but with the guilt of the dead on your shoulders you wish you were the 40th. The aftermath of this disaster comes with many sleepless nights and nightmares; you are bombarded with images in your mind and the press and newsreels showing the incident. The families only have you to blame as the pilot.

This all becomes too much for you and you decide to uproot your wife and twins from the city to a village in New Hampshire and escape to a old home near the woods.

This village was to be your escape from the city but proves to become an even more greater challenge and struggle to what you just tried to leave behind. With a close knit community where everyone knows your business and there are no secrets, you wish that you never stepped foot on its soil.

The new home the place that was to be your solace, turns out to have a strange hatch door in the basement with 39 bolts sealing the door closed, yes that is 39 bolts as in 39 dead in the airplane incident and if that is not freaking you out enough your twins love the greenhouse which you discover has had a shady past of being used to grow some strange herbs that a group of Shamans have been growing and using and seem to be still living in the village.

The nightmares you tried to leave behind becomes ever so worse with noises that go bump in the night. The author puts you in a really tense atmosphere of fear in this story that flows so well, you will be hooked and read through the pages in no time at all.

This is a page turning psychological tale of the highest caliber as the author takes you into the minds of the pilot, his wife, twins and the shamans. A harrowing story that has the makings of a classic horror story just right for October! View all 13 comments.

May 14, Natalie Richards rated it really liked it Shelves: owned-book. This is so different from The Sandcastle Girls that it could be written by a different author, except the writing is so good in them both.

This is more horror; with witches, ghosts, shamens etc but with a good story running through it that had me not being able to turn the pages fast enough. And that ending! Unpredictable, and not how I thought it would finish at all, which I loved.

Aug 30, Kelli rated it it was ok. I agree with other reviews that the "witch" element was stereotypical and the constant references to flying got boring after a while. I also thought it felt a little too much like The Shining. It probably doesn't help that I found Midwives spectacular, so my expectations were high.

View 1 comment. OK, I've given this 75 pages, and I just can't bring myself to continue. So far, it's been a whole lot of repetition about how the main character was piloting a plane that crashed and ended up killing 39 people. I get that that would be traumatic, and that he'd have PTSD afterward, but there's literally been NOTHING else to this book, except for the very opening section which describes the house and the basement.

Everything else has been about the crash and PTSD. Every character, every discussio OK, I've given this 75 pages, and I just can't bring myself to continue.

Every character, every discussion, every perspective, every page. And worse is that every perspective has to go over the same ground again and again, as though we weren't there, standing in for the main character, and "living it" or whatever we're supposed to have done, via the 2nd person narration.

Why, yes, 2nd person present IS the narrative perspective used for Chip am I supposed to take a 40ish year old man named "Chip" seriously, by the way? Let me tell you how much I enjoy that: Not at fucking all.

I want to experience the story vicariously through its characters. I want the writing to draw me in and make me feel as though I'm a part of it, but through description and skill, rather than a narrative style that basically shoves me into the story as a stand in for the main fucking character.

I am not that character, so all I can think of every time I'm told that "I" do or think or say something via this nightmare of a narrative style is I'm supposed to be one step removed from that, and instead, this awful choice of narrative makes it seem as though the character is the one removed from his own damn story. And I just have no patience for another couple hundred pages of that. This is supposed to be a ghost story, and so far, the only ghost around here is what's left of my interest in this book.

View all 4 comments. Feb 01, Jammies rated it did not like it. For a so-called "ghost story," this was terribly boring. The writing is technically proficient, but the characters are two-dimensional placeholders, which makes for absolutely no tension in the scary plot developments. Those plot developments are telegraphed loudly in advance, and there's no leavening humor or humanity to make a reader care enough to be scared on behalf of any of the cardboard figures populating the novel.

Throughout the read I was irritated by the use of second person si Bleah. Throughout the read I was irritated by the use of second person singular for chapters involving the main character, then ticked when view spoiler [the cat was killed for no apparent reason except to demonstrate which "herbalist" was the Big Bad hide spoiler ] and finally just bored right out of my little fuzzy socks Shelves: fiction.

It is horror, it is psychological terror, it is evil, it is creepy, it is raw and it is the perfect book to read as Halloween approaches. I'm not afraid, after all, I keep telling myself, this is only a book. So why are my nerves so taught. I'm as tense as a wound spring and I find myself gripping the book for dear life. Bohjalian is a masterful storyteller, one who makes his characters so real, yo Someone suggested to me that Chris Bohjalian's Night Strangers is a mystery, No, no, no, my pretty.

Bohjalian is a masterful storyteller, one who makes his characters so real, you'll feel like they are you friends, but believe me, in this case, you'll be glad that most of them are not. Some readers state the book begins slowly. It might, but I was hooked as soon as I read the prologue. It's the best of this genre I've read in a long time.

Some are saying Night Strangers is unlike any of Bohjalian's other books. I don't agree. I see all of what attracted me in his other book. A well thought out, thoroughly researched, believable story, with psychological undertones, vivid descriptions of both characters and location and even twins which seem to show up frequently in his works and always are intriguing.

A brief summation of the plot, better explained by reviewers than I can, but here goes Over in over in his mind he sees a successful resolution to his plight as he pictures the miraculous survival of passengers of the ill fated flight rescued by Chelsey Sullenberg whose plane met a similar fate on the Hudson in January of Not to be. A giant wave from one of the rescue ferries swamps Chip's landing and 39 of his passengers die.

Suffering PTSD, Chip, his wife and twin daughters relocate from Pennsylvania to upper state New Hampshire to Bethel, a small community where they hope for a chance to shrug off the past of the ill fated crash and go on with their lives.

Let's just say there's some strange happenings going on here. I love the way Bohjalian conjures up a tale blending the use of herbs, both medicinal and as potions, the greenhouses where they grow, the folklore of witches and covens in New England, damaged souls, the forces of good and evil to create a superior story that leaves us breathless.

I'd rather not tell you much more. Just read it. I don't think you'll be disappointed. View all 20 comments. In a dusty corner of a basement in a rambling Victorian house in northern New Hampshire, a door has long been sealed shut with 39 six-inch-long carriage bolts. The home's new owners are Chip and Emily Linton and their twin ten-year-old daughters. Together they hope to rebuild their lives there after Chip, an airline pilot, has to ditch his seat regional jet in Lake Champlain after double engine failure.

Unlike the Miracle on the Hudson, however, most of the passengers aboard Flight die on impact or drown. The body count? Thirty-nine — a coincidence not lost on Chip when he discovers the number of bolts in that basement door. Meanwhile, Emily finds herself wondering about the women in this sparsely populated White Mountain village — self-proclaimed herbalists — and their interest in her fifth-grade daughters.

Together they hope to rebuild their lives there after Chip, an airline pilot, has to ditch his seat regional jet in Lake Champlain after double engine failure. Unlike the Miracle on the Hudson, however, most of the passengers aboard Flight die on impact or drown. The body count? Thirty-nine — a coincidence not lost on Chip when he discovers the number of bolts in that basement door. Meanwhile, Emily finds herself wondering about the women in this sparsely populated White Mountain village — self-proclaimed herbalists — and their interest in her fifth-grade daughters.

Are the women mad? Or is it her husband, in the wake of the tragedy, whose grip on sanity has become desperately tenuous? The result is a poignant and powerful ghost story with all the hallmarks readers have come to expect from bestselling novelist Chris Bohjalian: a palpable sense of place, an unerring sense of the demons that drive us, and characters we care about deeply.

The difference this time? Some of those characters are dead. Languages English. And by having access to our online e-books or by storing them on your computer, you have convenient answers with the e-book The Night Strangers. To start finding The Night Strangers, you are right to find our website which has a complete collection of ebooks listed.

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