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Proof that fiction doesn't have to be SF or fantasy to be exciting and fun!
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This is another book that I stumbled on when I was bingeing an author in my high school library. The author, in this case, being Jack Finney. You may not have heard the name, but he wrote "The Invasion of the Body Snatchers" and "Time and Again", among others. Several of his novels have been filmed.
This is an odd one, because it's not science fiction or fantasy: it's just fiction. But it wouldn't be right to call it "just" fiction. It's an exciting, compelling, and just-plain-FUN story about four friends who find themselves a bit over their heads.
It starts with a bored lawyer.
Lew tossed the magazine into the air, pages fluttering, and Jo looked up, swinging her hair aside. His arms straight overhead, one hand behind the other, he began rhythmically pumping them up and down, fingers opening and closing. Jo said, "Okay, I'll ask: What are …
This is another book that I stumbled on when I was bingeing an author in my high school library. The author, in this case, being Jack Finney. You may not have heard the name, but he wrote "The Invasion of the Body Snatchers" and "Time and Again", among others. Several of his novels have been filmed.
This is an odd one, because it's not science fiction or fantasy: it's just fiction. But it wouldn't be right to call it "just" fiction. It's an exciting, compelling, and just-plain-FUN story about four friends who find themselves a bit over their heads.
It starts with a bored lawyer.
Lew tossed the magazine into the air, pages fluttering, and Jo looked up, swinging her hair aside. His arms straight overhead, one hand behind the other, he began rhythmically pumping them up and down, fingers opening and closing. Jo said, "Okay, I'll ask: What are you doing?"
"Hypnotizing God."
"I'll inquire still further: Why?"
"It's worth a try." He lowered his arms, hands clasping on his chest. "It could solve all my problems."
Afflicted with insomnia, Lew starts going out at night and soon finds himself having a strange adventure: unable to resist swinging on the porch swing of a stranger's in the middle of the night, he has to run when the people inside wake up. He gets away with it, and that leads to a series of night-time adventures with his friends; a picnic on the freeway, dancing in a supermarket parking lot to the Muzak that was left playing overnight, and other things that I've sometimes thought about doing but never had the nerve to try.
Over time, the night excursions turn more competitive and dangerous. And the forces of the law take notice of the group's quirky behavior—or at least, one agent of the law does. As Ahab to Moby Dick that policeman quests for the Night People.
Suffice it to say the denouement is spectacular. I've pondered it and wondered if I could make it work for over the past 45 years. It would be SO much fun to try...if I dared!
It's a fun, memorable book that's well worth reading. And it's available to borrow for free from the Internet Archive at archive.org/details/nightpeople00finn .
Happy reading! 🤓📖