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Ramonst
By : by A.F. Knott (Goodreads Author)
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Original Title : B01N8W8OFC
ISBN : English
Edition Language : English
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Kindle Edition, 271 pages
Published November 15th 2016 by Hekate Publishing Ltd
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Description : Hidden in the mountains of East Tennessee, an eleven-year old goes about the business of being a boy during the summer of 1970. Within a balance of terror and innocence, he bears silent witness to ghosts of the dead and the cruelties of a teenage killer while local justice plays out in a community carved from legacies of coal mining and religion.
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REVIEWS :‘Last winter I became fed up with the incarnation of evil showing up in my nightmares and decided to do the opposite of what it expected.’American author A.F. Knott lives in England and now focuses his elaborately colorful life on writing and collage art. After college his jobs are as varied as a kaleidoscope - he worked in Louisiana's offshore oil industry, a parking lot attendant, lunch deliverer, thoroughbred handicapper, paper broker, cyclotron engineer, PET operator, and family physician! Knott certainly has a talent for writing a dark and unorthodox piece of art. The biggest thing that stood out to me was the characters. Each one, though not entirely unique, had their own orchestrated and tortured story that really made the plot and writing come alive. With that being said, the story’s plot was entirely dependent on the characters. It felt a lot like the characters made the story, rather than the characters being conditioned by circumstance. This isn’t a bad thing, just a very Ramonst is a nostalgic and endearing book written in the hand of a 11 year old boy Rodney. Rodney is mature for his age and immensely aware of the adult world. He therefore shares his opinions and thoughts in a childlike yet adult manner that shocks us but also keeps us interested to know what all this little mind had absorbed. The book reminds us that somethings remain unchanged down the ages such as sympathy, love, cruelty, gossip and terror. Although the book is written by an 11 year old boy, Ramonst by A F KnottStarts out with a boy and his mother taking a plane ride discussing the dog that foamed at the mouth and had died and they did not know why after testing at UTN.Memories of Clyne holding a cat down on the slide and slicing it open...Talk of incest and raping....summer with the counsins in East TN. Uncle is there with war stories...Lots of memories of the lazy summer days in 60's that comes along with news reports that I also recall growing up.Love hearing of the games played Ramonst is the story of an eleven-year-old boy who has an above average memory and very keen perception. He and his mother go to visit his grandmother for the summer in a small mountain town in Tennessee. Here strange tales are told, and dark events take place. Author A. F. Knott has done an incredible job of capturing the tone of memory. Both with the voice of Rodney and also with the way he writes down the stories of others. It feels so real to me, retelling the strange and funny stories that I don’t typically read dark fiction, but this disturbing story was an intriguing read. If you are easily bothered by dark topics, then this is NOT the book for you. The story is told by an 11-year-old boy who is a unique mix of innocence and perception. Rodney is visiting his Nana in her disturbing, redneck mountain town in Tennessee for the summer. One thing that really intrigued me in this story was all of the ways different symbolic elements were used to represent the greater themes running Ramonst by A.F. Knott is an unusual book. It is unusual because it is told through the eyes of an 11-year-old boy named Rodney who has a crazy memory and is super perceptive. Unfortunately, his extended family is from the sort of backwoods Tennessee ultra-religious towns where the truth often gets twisted. When he visits one summer, he sees things no child should ever see. As a reader, it can be difficult to read because you remember his age, but the author has given the character maturity far Ramonst is full of events when a family gets together and visits Nana in East Tennessee. A. F. Knott is a creative author as he writes as a young boy of eleven remember a summer full of interesting events. Rodney’s summer was full of trouble, some he initiated other was brought on by his cousin, Clyde. Clyde was mentally unstable, anything could cause him to come unhinged. Rodney knows thathe is coming of age and finds the girl he likes has a crush on him. I found Ramonst humorous, interesting, Ramonst by A.F. Knott is a cleverly constructed novel written in an almost conversational manner. Before you know it, you are pulled into the story. Eleven year old Rodney is quite the character, full of observations about life in his small town. Taking place in east Tennessee, this story is a mash up of anecdotes, hillbilly knowledge and wit and wisdom of the South. Creepy actions take place, the killing of cats and other atrocities are often fleshed out as normal, but leave a huge impression What sets this book apart from any other, for me, are not characters, plot, writing style or anything like that. It is the atmosphere.This is a dark story and don't expect to feel jolly and walking on clouds after reading it. It is about a 11-year-old Rodney and it is told through his eyes. It isn't typical way of telling a story through child's view, Rodney is a little unusual, but it lends to the atmosphere I mentioned.There are some really heavy themes here, town and setting is creepy, other A very odd title for a very unusual and riveting book. “Ramonst” has you walking side by side with a mostly terrified, sensitive and retrospective eleven year old boy named Rodney but he is most times called Rodoh. The setting is in the 70s where Rodney lives in New York with parents who are separated and then he spends his summer in Tennessee with his large and lively extended family – grandmother, many cousins, uncles and aunts and a little town that has a whole lot of crazy stuff going on. Thoughtful and thought-provoking in equal measure, this book presents us with both abstract imagination and vivid realism, from a child’s perspective and yet with great lucidity.There are many parts of the book that felt to me like they came directly from the author’s notebook, that is to say, ideas that could have been fleshed out far more, but weren’t. To me, to a degree this gave the book an unfinished feel, though I daresay many may find value in the “less is more approach”, and certainly Vivid and interesting story for adults. Ramonst follows Rodney who is a precocious 11 year old boy with an incredible memory. He and his mother visit his grandmother in Tennessee and Rodney documents all the disturbing and odd things that happen while they are there. This is definitely not a book for kids it goes into detail of animal cruelty and abuse. Some of the stuff in this book should definitely not have been witnessed by a child, but it was really interesting to see the events described A. F. Knott’s, “Ramonst,” is a thrilling but very indicative of the “Sixth Sense” in the way that Rodney, a little eleven year old boy that can perceive otherworldly experiences. However, the novel is legitimately written from his perspective, but do not allow that to stop you from reading this novel. While it is written from Rodney’s perspective, the way he shares his thoughts and experiences is very mature, but also hyper focused on the negative and scandalous moments that he has unfortunately.
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