Killing Time in Buffalo

by Deidre S. Laiken

Book Overview

A hallucinogenic story of suspense that sets an increasingly mysterious and menacing series of events against the hazy, hypnotic background of America during the Summer of Love.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0316512230
• ISBN13: 9780316512237
• Release Date: January 1990
• Publisher: Little Brown and Company
• Length: 275 Pages

Customer Reviews

Killing Time in Buffalo

We had an assignment for our history class and i was really regreting this because i usually do not like reading. The book had to be a bout a certain time period. The book that i chose was set primarily in the late 1960s and early 1970s. It usually takes me a long time to read a book, but this book was fairly simple and very enjoyable. If you are into suspense and mystery there is plenty of it lurking in the plot. This book takes place in 1967. This shows how these girls lived during this time and it kind of showed the things that went on back in the day. This book has a lot of very strange occurences that keep happening that Renee can not explain. After growing up with a mother that was not mentally stable she had a lot of support and help from her older brother. She no longer has that "safe place" to go when she is scared. She has to learn how to fend for herself and how to get through these issues with out the help of her brother. This book is a book that can get confusing after a while becaue the author uses a series of flashbacks to help set the atmosphere of the story. Although the characters in this book are fictional he way that they are portrayed is real and you sort of feel like you are back there living the life. If you like mystery and suspense this is the book for you.

One of the best books I have ever read

....which is saying a lot since I have read many books. This book brought back crystal clear memories of my college days in upstate New York. Ms. Laiken clearly captures the Buffalo experience of the 1970s including the split Victorians divided up into cheap housing for college students that were so plentiful back then. Also she captures some of the stupid antics of college students gone awry as well as what it is like to adjust to a normal adult life after years of living with a clandestined highly dysfunctional family.Too bad she is no longer writing fiction, additional contributions would be quite welcome.