The Accursed Book Reviews

AUTHOR
Joyce Carol Oates
SCORE
3
TOTAL RATINGS
304

The Accursed by Joyce Carol Oates Book Summary

"Joyce Carol Oates has written what may be the world’s finest postmodern Gothic novel: E.L. Doctorow’s Ragtime set in Dracula’s castle. It’s dense, challenging, problematic, horrifying, funny, prolix and full of crazy people. You should read it.” —Stephen King, New York Times Book Review

Princeton, New Jersey at the turn of the 20th century: a tranquil place to raise a family, a genteel town for genteel souls. But something dark and dangerous lurks at the edges of the town, corrupting and infecting its residents. Vampires and ghosts haunt the dreams of the innocent. A powerful curse besets the elite families of Princeton—their daughters begin disappearing. A young bride on the verge of the altar is seduced and abducted by a dangerously compelling man—a shape-shifting, vaguely European prince who might just be the devil, and who spreads his curse upon a richly deserving community of white Anglo-Saxon privilege. And in the Pine Barrens that border the town, a lush and terrifying underworld opens up.

When the bride’s brother sets out against all odds to find her, his path will cross those of Princeton’s most formidable people, from Grover Cleveland, fresh out of his second term in the White House and retired to town for a quieter life, to soon-to-be commander in chief Woodrow Wilson, president of the University, and a complex individual obsessed to the point of madness with his need to retain power; from the young Socialist idealist Upton Sinclair, to his charismatic comrade Jack London, and the most famous writer of the era, Samuel Clemens/ Mark Twain—all plagued by “accursed” visions.

Narrated with Oates's unmistakable psychological insight, The Accursed combines beautifully transporting historical detail with chilling supernatural elements to stunning effect.

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Book Name The Accursed
Genre Fiction & Literature
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Language English
E-Book Size 2.96 MB

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I'm sorry. As a writer, I never want to speak ill of someone's hard work. That being said,I gave up reading this book in the middle of chapter one! The S L O W E S T moving, unimportant information packed book I've tried to read in a long time. Based on the synopsis it should have been a great book. I'm so disappointed.

The Accursed. This book is written in a very old style. It reminded me of the Elizabeth Peters Amelia Peabody stories, but not as well done. A lot of detail, a lot of characters, several different points of view, and very, very slow moving. I found myself getting lost and losing interesting many times as I read and read. However, it is a good story with people whom I began to care about in spite of the drawn out side stories.

Absolute genius. I am a big Oates fan and thought I would not like this digression into a very different genre. However, as dark and mysterious as the story is Oates writing shines. As always.

Just. Awful. The most ridiculous waste of time I have ever read. I kept reading too, thinking at some point Oates would pull the book together and it would be worth the effort, but that never happened. Ridiculous. Awful. Terrible.

Tedious. While it lasted s a great story, the author spends so much time with side stories that it became tedious to read. The author would build up great parts of the story yet at the climax, say that the records were not left to confirm. I forced my way through to be disappointed at the end.

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Accursed. Painfully pedantic prose that attempts to recreate a style representative of the early 1900s but fails miserably. The themes are forced and artificial as is the narrative.

Why?. I kept thinking as I read, why would an author of such impressive ability write this particular book? Despite the title, it certainly isn't a ghost or horror story since it lacks suspense and much of the character development expected or anticipated in a novel. Overall, the narrative is disjointed, the plot thin and ponderous. I continued reading right up until half-way through the book before giving up, something I don't do easily.

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Summary of The Accursed by Joyce Carol Oates

The The Accursed book written by Joyce Carol Oates was published on 05 March 2013, Tuesday in the Fiction & Literature category. A total of 304 readers of the book gave the book 3 points out of 5.

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