The Death and Life of Charlie St. Cloud
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The Death and Life of Charlie St. Cloud tells the haunting tale of a young man who narrowly survives a terrible car wreck that kills his small brother. Years later, the brothers’ bond remains so strong that it transcends the normal boundaries separating life and death. Charlie St. Cloud lives in a snug New England fishing village. By day he tends the lawns and monuments of the very ancient cemetery where his younger brother, Sam, is buried. Graced with an extraordinary gift after extant the manufacturing accident, he can still see, talk, and even play catch with Sam’s spirit. But townsfolk whisper that Charlie has never recovered from his loss.Into his carefully ordered life comes Tess Carroll, a captivating, adventuresome woman training for a solo sailing trip around the globe. Fate steers her boat into a treacherous storm that blows her back to harbor, to a charged encounter with Charlie, and to a surprise more overwhelming than the violent sea itself. Charlie and Tess learn a gorgeous and uncommon tie that leads to a race against time and a desperate choice between death and life, between the past and the future, between holding on and letting go.Luminous, soulful, and filled with unforgettable characters, The Death and Life of Charlie St. Cloud is one of persons rare, wise books that reveal the mysteries of the unseen world around us, gently transforming the worst pain of loss into hope, healing, and even laughter. Suspenseful and deeply moving, its startling climax reminds us that sometimes tragedies can bring about miracles if we simply open our hearts.
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Deeply derivative, with vomit-inducing sentimentallity. There’s nothing incorrect with being sentimental, but this is cliched and mawkish. I am disturbed by the rave reviews from additional readers.
Reader’s Rating: 2 / 5
I have to be honest, this book didn’t hook me straight away. But Ben Sherwood skillfully crafts this book, drawing you in slowly. Middle through the book, I realized I was completely hooked. Sherwood has a talent for building the reader feel the emotional immediacy of the characters. My heart was racing and breaking right along with Charlie’s when Tess is feared lost at sea.
After having read both “The Lovely Bones” and “The Five People You Meet in Heaven”, I’d say that although this book also deals with the afterlife, it can’t be compared to either of the additional two books. “Charlie St. Cloud” is more simply written than “The Lovely Bones” (which is not a criticism nor a complement, just a fact), and in my opionion, it packs more of an emotional whallop than “Five People.”
“Charlie St. Cloud” will touch you and stay with you long after you end reading it.
Reader’s Rating: 5 / 5
The book was a delight to read. As in The Man Who Ate the 747, Sherwood’s characters are perfectly drawn – odd, humorous, human, but depicted with such compassion and empathy that you know the leader can’t have a cynical bone in his body. His sense of place/setting is also remarkable. Not a native, he has managed to capture the nuances and feel of a picture-postcard-pretty New England town which has a number of layers of complexity under its glossy surface. But the tale itself is the real treat, a heartwarming journey into magical realism that turns the lead of tragedy into gold. Please read it immediately
Reader’s Rating: 5 / 5
Sherwood has a way of capturing human emotion in everyday settings in a way that avoids cliche, that really strikes right to the reader’s heart. Both of his books use an unusual circumstance to shake up the character’s lives, but the emotional swing isn’t so drastic as to lose touch with reality. “The Death and Life of Charlie St. Cloud” is a tale of loss, but more importantly it’s a tale of life. We regularly hold on to the things we’ve lost because we gain a certain comfort from them, a knowledge that we’ve preserved through time that is simpler to handle than that of reality. Charlie’s transformation seems to be large in scale from the beginning – you expect that a fantastic wave of change will pass over him, and his twilight games of catch with his brother will end in gut-wrenching, saccharine artificiality. The way Sherwood crafts Charlie’s evolution doesn’t make you reflect that the whole point of the book was to watch a guy become something he’s not. It’s a very real change, something we can all tell to, a change that is based in our own humanity, our ability to remember while also moving on. That it takes Charlie a long time to do that is more truthful than the overblown revolution of a person’s life that is regularly described in a book of this kind.
If you have lost a name you like, then you will delight in this book. Beyond that, you will find redemption in the feelings that you have retained, and support in the knowledge that lasting like, while sometimes overbearing and controlling, is still a gorgeous human trait.
If you haven’t lost anyone incredibly close to you, you’ll still feel the emotion of the tale, because Sherwood doesn’t fall into the trap of ultimately building Charlie a reflection of himself, or of you. Charlie St. Cloud is a person, unique unto himself, with his own worries, fears, passions, and version of like. You won’t get bored trying to slot in yourself in Charlie’s shoes, because you can’t. Charlie is thrown into a situation hardly anyone can tell to. The reason this works lacking trying to shove 1000 pages of plot into 280 pages of book is that Sherwood expertly gives Charlie enough emotion to pull you in, and not so much as to overwhelm.
If you’re a romantic, you’ll still like the book, especially if you’re a romantic with a firm grasp on reality. Among his talents, Sherwood has the ability to write about physical like, be it a kiss or more, in such a refreshing way that you don’t feel burdened by it. He describes a kiss between Charlie and Tess the way you felt when you first kissed a name you had serious feelings for. It hits home in that aspect, but still remains unique to the book.
It should be abundantly clear that I loved “The Death and Life of Charlie St. Cloud,” so there’s no need for more flowing compliments. The best I can offer is that you’ll be captivated by the emotion, gently surprised by the plot turns, and will feel whole at the end. This book is excellent for the soul, be it a healing soul, a hurting soul, or simply a regular human soul, the one that carries bits of baggage in the dark recesses. The people and tale in “Charlie St. Cloud” deserve your attention, and you deserve to delight in them.
Reader’s Rating: 5 / 5
This book is a fantastic read! I did not want it to end. I wanted to meet the characters. I live close to the setting and every time I go by the scenes where the book took place, I want to meet Sam and see how he is doing. They became such a part of me and my life. I feel like I lost a friend when the book was over. I can’t wait to see if this novel becomes a movie. It has a role that Julia Roberts want to play and she would perform it well!!
It is well-written and has an incredible message of hope! A must read for anyone, a fabulous, joyful novel!!
Thank you Ben Sherwood for the pleasure of reading your tale!! I am off to buy anything else written by Ben!!
Reader’s Rating: 5 / 5