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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 813.54
EAN: 9780451224675
ISBN: 0451224671
Label: Signet
Manufacturer: Signet
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 400
Publication Date: August 05, 2008
Publisher: Signet
Sales Rank: 30958
Studio: Signet
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Product Description:
Here’s one good reason for staying home from school...
Something strange is happening at Tyler High. The laid-back principal has become unusually strict. The janitors no longer work nights because of what they hear. The students are frightened by what they see. And things are happening on school grounds that defy rational explanation. But there is an explanation. It’s just nothing that anyone can begin to believe—or hope to survive.
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Rating:  - Fun But Standard Work For Little
Anyone who knows the work of Bentley Little can guess what The Academy is about.Although I still enjoy his work and the gimmicks he comes up with, I really need more than an evil fill-in-the-blank that slowly takes over a fill-in-the-blank.Even the ending is what I predicted at the start of the book, and while it may be the logical conclusion, I was hoping Bentley would have put a deeper layer of thought behind this one.
His technical writing is always very proficient, but I felt ... Read More
Rating:  - Very disappointing first encounter with Little
Not having a lot of experience in the Bentley Little world of literature but being a fan of the likes of Stephen King, I decided to give this novel a go. At first, it promised to be an exciting tale of a charter high school convertion gone bad; it turned out to be a disappointing, self-gratuitously sexually explicit contrite experiment of a piece of literature gone boring. While his characters seem right on (who of us haven't meet some of these teachers and their sturggles in real life?), the plot, ... Read More
Rating: - First half = 5 Stars; Second half = 2 Stars
For a synopsis, please look at Amazon's blurb & at prior reviews, which have done a fine enough job of summarizing the book's plot that I don't feel I have to reiterate it.
Here's my assessment:I still think Bentley Little's novel THE STORE is one of the best social horror novels ever written, and I thought his novel THE UNIVERSITY was nearly as good.The first half or so of THE ACADEMY was in that league --unease that was rapidly building into terror as events at post-charter ... Read More
Rating:  - WOW...all I can say is wow...
As a longtime fan of Bentley Little, I was excited to read his newest book, The Academy.After finishing a previous book, I started in on this.It gets really crazy, really fast.The principal is a figure of insanity and creepiness.Her secretary minion is also quite crazy.Some of the teachers even become sadistic towards their students, and graphic sexual content is described in loving detail.This book is non-stop weirdness, and when it ends, you feel dirty and unclean, but in a good way.... Read More
Rating:  - Little is falling off
I've read a lot of Bentley Little over the past few years, and I must say this recent attempt falls very short of his classics like The Store. It seems that he's running out of story ideas, because his 'establishment is bad' is old and predictable.
There was no ingenuity in this book, and as one other poster said- it seemed like a lot of it was simply shock value. I had been looking forward to reading this book for quite some time, but am simply disappointed with the entire endeavor.
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