The Pink Room

by Mark Laflamme

The world's leading physicist attempts to use string theory to bring his daughter back from the dead. A novel from award winning Maine journalist Mark LaFlamme. This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1591138531
• ISBN13: 9781591138532
• Release Date: November 2005
• Publisher: Booklocker.com
• Length: 276 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.5" x 8.5"

Customer Reviews

Mayra Calvani - Armchair Interviews

Do you enjoy a good scary story that weaves elements of science and horror yet stays traditional without too much techno slang? If yes, then this is the book for you. In The Pink Room, talented author Mark LaFlamme takes cosmology, quantum mechanics, and the string theory and mixes them with the supernatural to create a compelling scenario that will both pull at your heart strings and chill your blood. The story begins as the protagonist, well-known horror author Jonathan Cain, moves for the summer to a mysterious Second-Empire-styled house bordered by woods in the small town of Mulberry, Maine. Though most believe that the author is there to write, Cain has his own hidden agenda. For a short time, the house used to be the home of the world's top physicist Theodore Currie, who had built it himself following some very detailed and strange specifications, complete with the turret tower--or the `pink room'--which happens to be an exact replica of his little daughter's room before she died. Currie also had a hidden agenda--he believed he could bring back his beloved little girl. That is, until his dead body was found filled with bites in the woods nearby the house... Now, Cain is sure he can succeed at what Currie failed, and that is to bring his beloved Kimberly back from the dead and make her stay.... The Pink Room is one of those books you won't like to read alone at night. It will make you look over your shoulder and go jumpy. The little town, the dense woods, and especially the house all add to create an excellent atmosphere of darkness and threat. The novel touches the reader intellectually and emotionally, making it all the more terrifying. Though LaFlamme uses the science to add depth, he doesn't let it get in the way of the story with too much heavy vocabulary. The pace is fast, the characters' motivations real, and the suspense doesn't let down. LaFlamme has a real talent for knowing what resides in the mind of the horror author. This novel will be thoroughly enjoyed by fans of the genre, as well as by horror authors themselves. Highly recommended.

Bobbie (Colorado)

When I received this book, I immediately sat down to begin reading it. Part of the rush was that my daughter was waiting with bated breath to read it as well, the second part of the rush was that I had heard so much about the book that all else had to be put on hold until I finished The Pink Room. The Pink Room lived up to all the hype that I had heard from various people about how good it was, what a page turner it was, etc. I live in an older house and as I sat down to read The Pink Room, the house decided to settle in ways that it had never done before-or since. I kept looking over my shoulder as I turned each page and even my pets (1 dog, 3 cats) were eerily quiet that day-maybe they were afraid that they would be included in Mark's next book. I highly recommend this book to anyone that is interested in the horror genre. The ending was a surprise, but fit in well with the story. For anyone that is interested, Mark has a new e-book out, Red Sox 2086. It's available for download from Mark's website, www.marklaflamme.com and worth the cost of the download. I'm anxiously awaiting Mark's next book. I know that it will be just as good, if not better, than The Pink Room was.

Wow ... What's in the pink room will scare you to death!

I can't believe this is this author's first book! I found it almost flawless. He's great at plot, description, dialogue, pacing ... all the writing skills that make for a smooth, exciting, fast-paced story. Mark LaFlamme certainly knows how to bring out the deeper emotions in his readers. He's really good! He made me cry, he made me angry, he made me laugh ... but most important in a horror story, he made me WAIT. And then he zapped me with the horrors that made me fear for his characters. His style transported me into his story with such subtle writing that I even feared for my own life. I couldn't put this book down, and when I did, needless to say, I couldn't sleep upstairs. I had to sleep on the first floor of my house. (Read for yourself to find out why.) Wow!

Terrific new author

I generally don't read horror, but I work with this author and really wanted to see if his book was as good as his newspaper columns. So I lit every light in the room (on a sunny day) and dove in. I was expecting something unusual from a guy who has his desk decorated for Halloween 365 days a year, and I got it. Wonderfully written and way too real for this scaredy cat. Eeek!