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This book is a different tale by Bentley Little. Though it is less violent the scenario brought to the table in this extraordinary book is by far the scariest and saddest I have read. This author can take anything ordinary and make you uncomfortable with it. I recommend this book to all fans of modern horror.


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The idea of a person being so average and ignored by everyone isn't original with Bentley Little, but he does a good job of taking it to different places. This is a story about a man who is ignored by everyone, who finally realizes that he is literally a different kind of human being. I don't want to give away the storyline (in horror lit at least some surprises need to be left untold), but as we follow the development of Bob Jones, it did seem to me that the story wobbled in lots of different directions, as though the author couldn't decide whether Bob should be a fundamentally decent person (who nonetheless commits murder), or whatever. I suppose we are supposed to see Bob as conflicted. Instead, I saw him as wishy washy -- but I guess that is perhaps what a terminally average person might be. I also found it impossible to see why Bob would still like the character he witnesses ritually murdering children! Good grief! Are we to assume that Bob simply cannot feel a strong repugnance? He feels it about the rapes committed by his "friends," and he feels strong emotions towards his girlfriend. I found the end unsatisfying.
The Ignored takes a little too long to get going, but when it settles into it's pace, there are several flavors in it that you will want to taste.

Bob Jones is an average guy; average in college, average in his marriage, and average in lifestyle. Bob accepts an average job at a software company called Automated Interface as a Documentation Writer. Not exactly what he expected from his life.

At first, Bob feels left out, but its not long before Bob realizes he is utterly ignored. He even discovers a day missing on his paycheck because no one knew he was there. Stewing in this new revelation of his life, even so far as becoming hostile, Bob's marriage falls apart. It is only after Bob decides to kill his boss that things begin to change for him.

Philipe comes into Bob's life, welcoming him, and lets him know he is not the only Ignored human being. Bob takes up with Philipe and others who are Ignored, staying in hotels and eating at restaurants without paying. But Philipe is not the average Ignored, Philipe has an agenda.

'The Ignored' starts fresh, slows down its pace considerably in the middle, but perks up in the final chapters to really dish out some fresh ideas and terrifying alternate realities. By the time Bob finds an entire city of Ignored, the pace of the novel is off to another fresh start and will lead you to a wonderfully fiendish ending.

Bentley Little has a knack for taking an ordinary component, ordinary person, or ordinary object and create a shivering aura of dread around it. Little will not cleave open your brain with a hatchet to extract horror, but rather insert a hardly noticeable tube to drain it slowly and surreptitiously.

Referenced in 'The Ignored' is the classical horror piece 'The Great God Pan' by Arthur Machen, so don't forget to brush up on this classic either before or after reading this book.

If you want to taste Bentley Little before diving in, I also highly recommend his collection of shorts called 'The Collection'. I also recommend his other works, 'The Walking' (my favorite), 'The Mailman', 'The Association', and 'The '. Once you get hooked on Little, its hard to ... ignore him. Enjoy!
Bentley Little's debut novel, "The Ignored", is one of the most disturbing pieces of horror fiction I have ever come across. A Twilight Zonish tale about an average--metaphysically average--man named Bob Jones. Little is subtle and one uncomfortably identifies with Jones (I have no doubt that part of the author's intent was to make us realize how "average" each of us really are, by society's standards, and he does it uncomfortably well.)

Jones is an everyman. A young man in his late twenties with very little idea as to what to do with his life, the novel opens with him applying for a job at a company called "Automated Interface".

It is an average, nondescript work location with nothing to separate itself from any other average, nondescript job. Jones is a data entry clerk who is despised by his co-workers and, curiously enough, not noticed very well by others. The thoughts which run through his head upon arrival at Automated must echo thousands of those who have the good fortune to get a job in our current economic situation "He had always believed he was creative, but had never done anything creative. He had always sympathized with characters in literature and literary figures, but he began to realize that he admired them more for their qualities than any qualities he actually possessed. And here he was, in a cubicle filling out forms which meant nothing to him or anyone else. He would work here for 40, maybe 50 years if he lived that long and didn't get fired. And then his life would be over."

Every mean, ugly impulse known to man goes on in the Kafkaesque hell in which Bob finds himself. He begins to notice that when his co-workers have office events and parties, he attends and is not remembered by anyone. Encountering a friend from college who he had fond memories of hanging out with, he eagerly engages him in conversation and begins to realize that the man does not recognize him.

From here things get really lurid and terrifying. Discovered by a man named Phillipe, he joins a group called "Terrorists For the Common Man". This book covers every sociopolitical problem known to man, and one can view Phillipe as a liberator or a descendant of Stalin. Little was thinking big while writing this book.

This is not for those with weak stomachs, but for any self respecting horror fan I would say this is an absolute must.
This book is a different tale by Bentley Little. Though it is less violent the scenario brought to the table in this extraordinary book is by far the scariest and saddest I have read. This author can take anything ordinary and make you uncomfortable with it. I recommend this book to all fans of modern horror.