Pandora Drive

by Tim Waggoner

Book Overview

A young girl finds that she CA bring others people's dreams--and nightmares--to life. This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Mass Market Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0843956259
• ISBN13: 9780843956252
• Release Date: January 2006
• Publisher: Leisure Books
• Length: 370 Pages
• Weight: 0.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 4.3" x 6.8"

Customer Reviews

Pure Horror to the Core

I found this book a most interestingly entertaining , weird and graphic horror book I have ever had the chance to read.It's a novel well written by this author and I look forward to reading "Like Death" which I bought after starting to read this book "Pandora Drive" plus I also this past week ordered another book "Darkness Wakes" by this author Tim Waggoner.I've recieved this book this past chrsitmas as a gift from my sister.She was right on the money when she purchased this book for me.I LOVED IT! Excellent read and look forward to reading the other two books I have and will have in my future readings.

Put this at the top of your list of books to read

Horror absorbed by dark fantasy is the best way to describe Tim Waggoners latest gore filled free for all. Horror is unleashed in this small midwestrern town where your deepest and darkest fantasies become reality with no regard to human life. Definatley entertaing and fun to read.

Even better than expected

Damara Ruschmann has a strange and wondrous power: the ability to make people's thoughts real. When she was younger, it was less powerful and just seemed to affect her family (though she carries the guilt of her brother's death and her father's disappearance because of it). But as she has grown older, it has left her control. Now it has spread all over her neighborhood (located on Pandora Drive), and her neighbors' worst fears, greatest fantasies, passing wishes, and even spoken metaphors -- anything they can imagine -- are all coming true. Zephyr, Ohio, will never be the same. Author Tim Waggoner has followed up his critically acclaimed 2005 novel Like Death with 2006's Pandora Drive, an exercise in imagination that brutally illustrates the adage, "Be careful what you wish for, you just might get it." A novel with as simple and open-ended a setup as Pandora Drive succeeds or fails by the author's imagination. Does Waggoner create realistic characters with fantasies that make entertaining reading? Does he set up these thoughts and their consequences in a way that is believable yet surprising? Is the prose fast-paced enough that we get swept up in the series of events with little time to wonder how it will all turn out? All of these questions get a resounding yes. Waggoner has no shortage of ideas and he approaches them unflinchingly -- fans of the extreme horror novels of Edward Lee should enjoy Waggoner's vision immensely -- and executes them flawlessly. There is imagination to spare, and Pandora Drive is as much a thrill ride as you would expect a novel that begins and ends at an amusement park to be.

Waggoner Continues To Shine

PANDORA DRIVE is another staggeringly original work of terror by Tim Waggoner. If critics thought his first novel, LIKE DEATH, was a fluke, this should set the record straight. Tim Waggoner is indeed talented and has proved it once again. It's very rare for me to give a writer two 5-star reviews for their books -- author Gary A. Braunbeck, Tom Piccirilli, Bentley Little, Jack Ketchum, T.M. Wright and Richard Laymon are the only ones to date -- but Mr. Waggoner has now joined that elite group. Infused with emotion and brimming with evil, this is an original and extremely adult tale of horror. My only grip is with the copy editor who unfortunately missed quite a few spelling/grammar errors. I can't begin to tell you how excited I am to read this author's next book. Highest recommendation if you want something different in your horror tale.

Pandora's Box of Horrors!

A young woman named Damara has the power to make people's dreams and nightmares come true. She has no control over this power, and sparking her imagination causes horrors beyond your worst nightmares. When childhood friend Tristan comes back to her neighborhood to renovate his dead mother's house, Damara's powers become more and more potent. Tristan begins to notice gray ooze coming out of his walls. Kenneth, one of Damara's neighbors, who has erectile dysfunction, finds it cured, so that his new condition is quite the opposite of his old one. Add to that the fact that Kenneth is extremely perverted, and he becomes very dangerous. His wife, Emma, develops skills at pruning more than weeds, such as the ability to easily rid the neighborhood of those she thinks of as being weeds. This novel begins calmly, and gradually erupts into a full blown nightmare of gore and violence. It is not for the faint of heart.