Class Trip-- Had me on the edge of my seat

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	• Two by Carrere: Class Trip/the Mustache Emmanuel Carrere Holt Paperbacks, 1998 - 318 pages average customer review:based on 13 reviews view larger image
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highly recommended

Perfect Book

This review is for Class Trip:
I found this book quite accidentally. I am thrilled that I did because it is an excellent book and so completely beautifully written (and translated).

Carrere is a wonderful writer. His character, Nicolas, is so amazingly realistic. His thoughts, the way his mind wanders from thought to idea, his lack of confidence, his lying without explanation. All this makes Nicolas compelling and empathetic.

Although a bit of a thriller, this story is also a coming-of-age story. Nicolas is forced to grow up while attending a two-week ski-camp with his class. He yearns for acceptance and love and to be "one of the boys".

He IS accepted and he IS loved, and right before the end of the book, he IS indeed "one of the boys". Unfortunately, there is one more chapter or two . . . and, that changes everything and changes Nicolas forever.

The Mustache:
The mustache is also a shocker, although quite different from Class Trip. It is also perfect in its horror. The main character shaves off his mustache, but his wife doesn't seem to notice. When he mentions it, she insists that he never had a mustache. Ever. He proves that he did with the tufts of hairs he shaved and with pictures he finds. However, that "evidence" soon disappears and, once again, his wife (and his friends, too) insist he never had a mustache.

Well, if he had a mustache and they are lying, they are taking the joke awfully far. If they are not lying, he is going insane.

Carrere's writing is extraordinary. He is able to grasp fleeting thoughts and ideas that most people have but do not articulate. The story itself is nerve wracking yet the reader is compelled to continue. It's a shocking story with a major shock at the end that will leave you stunned for a few moments. I actually had to re-read the last few pages because it was such a stunner.

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Masterfully Gripping

I highly recommend "Class Trip" on all levels. It was disturbing, suspenseful, and wholly believable. Nicholas and Patrick are wonderful characters. I thought about the story long after the final page. (This review pertains to the French Version, "La Class de neige.")

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fascinatingly eerie and thought provoking

I have always wanted to read a book/novella that was so fascinating I think about the issues it has presented to me for a long time to come. I have found that book. It is enjoyable, tense and quite intriguing. I recomend this book to anyone looking for a horror/suspenseful book that is a bit more deep and sophisticated than Stephen King or Dean Koontz but still easy enough to read and enjoy immediately.
Read it when you are in a dark mood.

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Scary

In my opinion, this is the perfect book to read, on a rainy day shortly after you have been dumped by your girlfriend who has been cheating on you behind your back and you can't sleep because in between nightmares of flying fanged demons you wake up to see her face hovering above you.

I read this book and was scared. My friends read it and they were scared. It's a scary book. Scary.

If you like Stephen King, and Clive Barker, and all those other modern 'horror' writers. Then you may want to look a bit harder for good fiction. This kind of stuff blows them right out of the water.

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Class Trip-- Had me on the edge of my seat

The short story Class Trip had me on the edge of my seat for all 120 pages of it. I literally couldn't put the book down--between the clues, the flashbacks, and the eerie setting, Class Trip is an amazing read if you want to be comtemplating the ending for a long time afterwards.

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Two harrowing tales of pyschological suspense--hailed as " stunning" (John Updike)--from the mathematician of horror.

Two by Carrere brings together the greatest works of Emmanuel Carrere, "the Stephen King of France" (Mirabella), two novels that are at once gripping suspense stories and laser probes into the modern psyche.

The Mustache begins with a husband's playful question to his wife: "What would you say if I shaved off my mustache?" But, for the hero of The Mustache, that simple question catapults him into a metaphysical nightmare as his wife and friends not only fail to notice his newly clean-shaven appearance but deny the existence altogether of his former mustache. Is he the victim of some bad joke? Or have they all suddenly gone mad?

In Class Trip, little Nicolas embarks on an ill-fated overnight excursion. Prone to lurid imaginings of kidnappings and organ thefts, Nicolas watches his fantasies grow horrifyingly real when a local child disappears. Nicolas takes it upon himself to investigate, fearlessly playing detective--until he uncovers the devastating truth. Dramatic, taut with intensity, Carrere's depictions of the terrifying anxieties and shifting realities of modern life are marvels of concentrated emotion.

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