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Avg. Customer Rating:   (based on 3 reviews)
Sales Rank: 349180
Category: Book
Author: Bentley Little
Publisher: Amazon
Studio: Amazon
Manufacturer: Amazon
Label: Amazon
Language: English (Published)
Media: Digital
Pages: 17
ASIN: B000FDK8WC
Publication Date: April 6, 2006
Release Date: April 6, 2006
Availability: Available for download now
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Product Description
Although I'm a horror writer, sometimes I come up with ideas that don't really fit into that genre. Oftentimes, I'll hide them in a novel, since a book-length work is able to absorb these off-subject digressions without any adverse effects. Every once in a while, however, something like ?Hunting? will come to me fully formed, as its own self-contained entity, and I'll turn it into a short story. Whether you are a hardcore horror fan or not, I hope you will like this piece - I do.
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Great story by a great writer. August 5, 2007
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
The only thing that I regretted; is the shortness of this marvelous story.
This story has touched me deeply, as I love nature very much and I enjoy being in the woods, enjoying the wild life in all its magnificent forms and shapes.
I will definitely read it again and again, and I recommend every nature loving Pearson to read it, it will definitely remind every one with something dear to her or his heart and soul.
An excellent small tale of Americana by Little. October 16, 2006
5 out of 5 found this review helpful
Bentley Little has been making a name for himself ever since his first published works in 1990, whereupon Stephen King gave him praise. His novels have the suspense and action of an old school pulp fiction novel, while his themes of fantasy are also nothing to sneeze at and stand well on their own. "Hunting" is an Amazon short by Bentley Little. An Amazon short is simply a short story available only on Amazon, like a cross between a short story and an E-book; they are easily purchased for immediate viewing with PDF format.
With "Hunting", Bentley tells a tale, in 17 pages, about an experience he had (I'm assuming its a personal experience) as a boy. With the help of a loving father, he realizes the wonderful world of the outdoors. On the hunting trips, he realizes how much he loves to get away from the city, and how much in tune with nature he can be. The hunting trips also touch on something I myself experienced when I first started hunting, that the least fun part of it was killing an animal, and that what you really get out of it is a sense of camaraderie and escapism. As the trips go on, the hunting part decreases. Soon another man joins the trips, by the name of Gary Knox. Knox is an arrogant, egotistical jerk for the most part, and the young boy soon realizes that he does not like the man, and that the man has no appreciation for the stillness and quiet of the outdoorsy mountain universe that the boy and his father escape to. Soon we realize how important that escape is as there is trouble on the home front between the boy's parents, and Gary Knox has a hand in it.
The story has a Norman Rockwell background for visuals, but in the foreground is what we don't see of those fun times that are so often painted of America during the 50's and 60's. Families still go through terrible times, and it sometimes is the result of someone being very immoral. Little's "Short" here on Amazon was purchased by me on a whim but I am so glad I did. Despite its length of less than 20 pages, it is vivid in description and detail. Little does a good job of seeing the story through the eyes of a child, and how dark and different that child's world can become when things that are to remain secret or kept from his view are suddenly exposed. The final paragraph is very haunting as we contemplate two possible outcomes that could happen, and neither of them necessarily a happy one. I only hope this tale is fictional and not something that Little actually experienced. I'm assuming the former.
Also was interesting to learn that he is by and large, a technophobe, but in the good sense in that he is sick of society shoving digital do-dads down his throat. He does not own a computer, ipod, cell phone. I look forward to reading his works
Only One Regret! June 7, 2006
15 out of 15 found this review helpful
Only one regret...that this wasn't made into a complete book!
The story was typical Bentley Little [although he didn't think so], fast paced, full of suspense, and a twisted ending...I gulped it down like a cold glass of water on a hot day....fast and smoothly, wanting more. I was extremely sad to have it end so quickly, but then again that's what "Shorts" means huh..lol...still I would gladly have bought this in a "long" book format.
Great, great story line!
Loved it!!!!!!
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