- Mass Market Paperback: 438 pages
- Publisher: Signet Book; Reissue edition (Aug 2001)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0451204123
- ISBN-13: 978-0451204127
- Product Dimensions: 17.8 x 11.2 x 3 cm
- Average Customer Review: 4.4 out of 5 stars See all reviews (10 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 444,930 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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13 of 13 people found the following review helpful
Format:Mass Market Paperback
This has to be up with the best of Bentley Little's horror novels - in fact, it might just sit right at the top of the pile, in my opinion. A stunning, and disturbing, piece of horror fiction. The author's books can generally be split into two types - one branch deals with the usual elements of horror, such as vampires ('The Summoning'), zombies and witches ('The Walking'), or demonic goings on ('Houses'). The second type of Little's work delves into the everyday hum-drum things we take for granted... and then twists them into something uniquely terrifying. A whole community powerless against someone as innocuous as their postman ('The Mailman'), or people coming face-to-face with the realisation that their entire town has become reliant on the whims of the local superstore, which has managed to run all of its competition out of business then employed 90% of the township ('The Store').
'The Association' falls neatly into the second category. But rather than having a community that finds itself insidiously taken over by an outside force, Little turns things on their head, and here it is the community itself which is warped, and it is into this that a normal young couple find themselves trapped by something as seemingly harmless as a homeowners' association. One which is determined to make their new neighbours conform to its peculiar - and rather sinister - standards.
If you're expecting buckets of blood in your horror, then this one is definitely not for you. But if you want a book that will make you see just how, with just a little twist, the normal day-to-day things in life can become more terrifying than any werewolf or vampire, then you need to have 'The Association' on your bookshelves. I really can't recommend this book enough.
7 of 8 people found the following review helpful
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I have only read one of Little's books before, and that being the Mailman, which was very good, so I thought I'd try this one, I really enjoyed it, and I don't agree with another review that the characters didn't have realistic thought processes, I thought that they were people just like you or I and they behaved in ways we might - given the same circumstances. I found it very creepy and very threatening with lots of surprises round each corner. Can't say if it's one of his best as i haven't read enough, but I can say that I will be buying some more on the strength of it so that tells you something. As good as King or Koontz I'd say!
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Barry and Maureen go to live in the gated community of Bonita Vista that is controlled by a homeowner's association that is bent on making their lives a living hell. The association deals out numerous unfair and diabolical infractions that further threaten the couple and other residents in Bonita Vista. Little does a nice job of pulling the reader into the characters. The ending was a LITTLE over the top and might have worked better if it had been believable and some of the scenes are taken to the extreme, though I did especially like the Stumpies and the Volunteers.
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Brilliant writing, not your typical horror novel!!!
Bought this book after reading advice from a customer via listmania, on amazon; and because I was looking for more authors from the horror genre. Read more
Published on 10 Aug 2009 by Marie Breeze
The Association by Bentley Little
The Association is one of three titles I purchased from Amazon by a little known here American writer called Bentley Little. Read more
Published on 3 Feb 2009 by G. C. Jones
Tired of this! I want stories!
I am sick and tired of Bentley Little's social satires poorly masked as horror novels.
I don't want to know about home owners association, giant stores that crush small... Read more
I don't want to know about home owners association, giant stores that crush small... Read more
Published on 29 Oct 2008 by Ricardo Rebelo
Very Good!
Barry and Maureen Welch think that they have found their dream home, when they move into the exclusive, gated community of Bonita Vista, in the Utah hills. Read more
Published on 29 Jan 2008 by J.Flood
Addictive
The Association is the second novel that I have read by Bentley Little and so far I am very impressed. Read more
Published on 14 Jun 2007 by marky77
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I do not agree that this was Little's best work. In fact I was very disappointed in the way this story was just dragged out until the bitter end. Read more
Published on 1 Sep 2002
Brilliant!
Bentley Little's horror is of a very modern persuasion, dealing as it does with contemporary social issues, and in this fascinating and horrifying work, he delineates the... Read more
Published on 19 Dec 2001
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