Once again, John Saul has written another fantastic work. A very interesting plot, and portrays a realistic setting with a supernatural element. Overall, a great novel that I would recommend to fans of Saul's work.

listened to the audio tape while traveling. really good...creepy. i have enjoyed some of his other books more though. the audio book was well read

This was corny, predictable, and extremely slow. The characters were paper thin and the dialogue was cheesy in all the wrong ways. Ugh. I will avoid Saul’s early novels like the plague henceforth.

Amberton, een klein stadje, gelegen aan de onderkant van een mijn, is 50 jaar rustig geweest. Maar de opening van de mijn brengt daar verandering in. Als de opzichter Dhr. Lyons bij een ongeluk om het leven komt, gaat zijn dochter, Christie, tijdelijk bij Diana Amber en haar moeder Edna wonen. Maar dan gebeuren er rare dingen en stort Christie's wereld geleidelijk in. Edna is namelijk alleen maar boos en Diana is niet te pijlen. Het belangrijkste is dat als de wind waait Christie lief moet zijn.
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Een apart verhaal vanuit een aparte hoek. De wind en de mijn spelen in het verhaal een belangrijke rol. Het verhaal sleept je mee, maar het hield mij niet echt vast. Het is spannend zoals we gewend zijn, maar het heeft niet helemaal dat beetje wat me trekt.
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John Saul is geboren in 1942 in Pasadena, Californië. Hij groeide op in Whittier en haalde zijn diploma in 1959 van de Whittier High School.
Na verschillende opleidingen aan net zoveel beroepsopleidingen te hebben gevolgd zonder het behalen van een diploma of graad, besloot hij van school te gaan en auteur te worden. In de daarop 15 jaar schreef Saul verschillende manuscripten en had hij verschillende baantjes. geen enkele uitgever zag iets in zijn verhalen, totdat zijn agent bij Dell terecht kwam. Daar wilden ze niets kopen, maar vroegen ze hem of hij een psychologische thriller kon schrijven. Saul maakte een verhaallijn, schreef het uit en hoopte dat het goed genoeg was. Zowel zijn agent als Dell waren laaiend enthusiast en zagen in dit verhaal een bestseller. Dell pakte groots uit. Advertenties en TV spots voor deze onbekende auteur werden gemaakt. En het slaagde. Saul werd in een klap wereldberoemd. Suffer the Children was geboren. Alle boeken die erna kwamen kwamen wel in de Bestsellerlijsten en zijn boeken werden wereldwijd uitgebracht en in verschillende talen vertaalt. De boeken werden uitgegeven door uitgeverijen die zijn verbonden aan Random House. Naast auteur is Saul ook acteur, scriptschrijver en is 1 van zijn boeken in 1984 uitgebracht als film.
Meer informatie over John Saul is te vinden op een van de onderstaande sites.
http://www.johnsaul.com/index.html
https://www.goodreads.com/author/show...
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0766657/
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Boekinformatie
Uitgeverij Phoenix
ISBN: 90.6879.012.9
239 pagina's; paperback

I have read a fair amount of Saul and this is definitely one of his better novels. As usual, it takes place in a small town and mostly involves family dynamics. The family in this case are the Ambers-- one old lady (80+) Edna and her daughter Diana (50). The town in the mountains of Colorado basically came into existence due to the Amber's coal mine in the 1800s, but a terrible cave in/flood in 1910 killed all the miners, including Mr. Amber, leaving Edna and Diana all alone. Diana was born the day of the tragedy. Now, the town has recovered somewhat, becoming a tourist destination, but the Ambers decide they want to reopen the mine. Unfortunately, the mining engineer they hire to do so dies in the mine, leaving his young 9 year old daughter with no parents and no living relatives. Unsure of what to do, young Christie is taken to the Amber household, as the mining engineer named Diana as a guardian in his will.

Without going into too much detail regarding the plot, old Edna comes across at first as someone who makes Mommy Dearest look like an angel. She has keep her 50 year old daughter away from everyone in town, and Diana basically lives to serve her mother's whims. Edna does not want Diana to adopt Christie, but Diana seemingly finely shows some spine and rebuffs her mother regarding this. Diana comes across as a Jeckle and Hyde figure-- nice and loving until the wind blows, and then very cruel. Christie does not know what to do. The most horrific aspect of this book concerns the child abuse-- both in the present with Christie and in Diana's past.

A quick and somewhat formulaic read but still fun in that Lifetime movie, early 1980's horror kind of way. The town of Amberville is haunted by the shadow of a fifty-year old mining disaster which affected every family living there. Now Christie Lyons' father has come to town to try to reopen the mine. Soon enough she's orphaned and living with the Edna and Dianna Amber, the town's nasty matriarch and her doormat of a daughter. Dark secrets abound. Who is killing young Christie's friends? Does it have something to do with the old Indian cave used as a repository for stillborn babies? And what's up with that wind? You get the idea. Add a half-star if, like me, you are a fan of the paperback horror B-Listers of the 80's

read this forever ago and I loved it.

Segundo que leo de este autor maltratado en España.

La edición es mala y muy difícil de encontrar, con gran cantidad de erratas.

Cuenta como en un pueblo, cada vez que el viento sopla, hay algunas personas que reaccionan mal, no saben lo que hacen y luego no se acuerda. Una huérfana llegara a la casa de una familia con su abuela, madre e hija. Descubriremos que paso con el hijo de la madre.

Lectura diáfana y simplona. Sentía que estaba viendo una telenovela mexicana.

Que decir sobre este libro??

*Disclamer hay maltrato físico y psicológico infantil*

Hasta ahora es el que más me gustó de Jhon Saul, solamente porque no hay maltrato animal como en "dejado a los niños" eso es mucho muy importante.
Las partes de maltrato infantil no son explícitas pero son molestas, pero sin eso no habría historia para desarrollar.

F por todos los niños de los libros de Jhon Saul.

Se me hizo pesado e insoportable al principio, por los personajes de Edna y Diana por su nivel de posesividad, hasta que empiezan los flashbacks, que se pone interesante la cosa, y engancha mucho..
En fin.. a mi me gustó,
Lo volvería a leer? No creo
Lo recomendaría? Pos si
Me gustaría que hagan una película?? Obvio que si, hay mucho drama.

I thought this book was okay; it had some positives and negatives. One positive is that Saul uses fantastic descriptive language, especially in the prologue. He really takes you to a mountain town with his creative words. There were clear transitions and it read fast. It’s easy to get lost in the book because of the descriptive language.

I thought Dianna and her mother Edna were out of the ordinary and unique characters. They had an interesting relationship and they both were going through internal struggles. I enjoyed learning more about their relationship, but they were really the only people I cared about. Everyone else fell into the background and only showed up once in awhile. Christie was probably the only other character with depth. She was mildly interesting, but she didn’t stand out to me much.

In my opinion, the plotline was pretty dry. There was a lot of down time with nothing much going on. All the kids getting killed off got old quick, especially if you have read other John Saul books. Some of the scenes also felt irrelevant and unimportant. Finding the bones in the cave was anticlimactic and boring for me. However, I did like the whole thing with Dianna losing mind when the wind blew. I thought it was an interesting concept and it was enough to keep me reading.

I don’t regret reading this book, but I have no plans to read it again.

3.5

I throughly enjoyed the book but the ending felt like a letdown. It didn’t ruin the read, just kind of diminished it.

This is only my second John Saul book, and I was really looking forward to reading it. I was not disappointed!

It takes place in a small town who have a mine which is the centre of attention and has stories about it. The Ambers family own the mine and several years ago the mine suffered a flood resulting in deaths. The only Ambers left are Edna with her daughter Diana. They are both now old adults who do not have a great relationship. Diana takes into her care a young girl called Christie which Edna is not happy about at all. Christie starts to feel the strangeness in the mine and the Amber family.

It seems that something is going on with the mine which has heavily impacted on the Ambers. There are legends about a cave by the mine which have young children’s spirits coming in the wind, hence ……..”When the Wind Blows”

The story builds and is creepy, unsettling, and disturbing.