Julie
Added to listSick Books That I Really Rather Enjoyedwith 2 books.
This was my third time reading ‘The Passage' and I still enjoyed it as much as the first time. I'm not quite sure why that is.I'm a sucker for survival stories, anyway (if you'll excuse the pun), so that is already a huge plus.
Blood-sucking vampire super-soldiers - virals - created by man, have made the human race all but extinct. There are just a few pockets of humanity trying to survive. After almost one hundred years of terror the virals' behaviour starts to change. They realise they have nearly exhausted their food supply and they have to reduce the attacks on the survivors giving them time to multiply but also giving them time to fight back.
On the surface this is a horror story about survival but it is more than that. It is a tale of love in all its forms: husband and wife, parent and child, brother and sister. Each time I read it I see more and that for me makes a cracking good story.
This was my third time reading ‘The Passage' and I still enjoyed it as much as the first time. I'm not quite sure why that is.I'm a sucker for survival stories, anyway (if you'll excuse the pun), so that is already a huge plus.
Blood-sucking vampire super-soldiers - virals - created by man, have made the human race all but extinct. There are just a few pockets of humanity trying to survive. After almost one hundred years of terror the virals' behaviour starts to change. They realise they have nearly exhausted their food supply and they have to reduce the attacks on the survivors giving them time to multiply but also giving them time to fight back.
On the surface this is a horror story about survival but it is more than that. It is a tale of love in all its forms: husband and wife, parent and child, brother and sister. Each time I read it I see more and that for me makes a cracking good story.
Although only a few pages long, I found this report to be absolutely chilling. Matthew Hopkins was the Witchfinder general and seems to have been absolutely convinced of the righteousness of his cause. The question seem to have been put to him and these are his answers. This was a real man, with a real conviction. Horrific.
Although only a few pages long, I found this report to be absolutely chilling. Matthew Hopkins was the Witchfinder general and seems to have been absolutely convinced of the righteousness of his cause. The question seem to have been put to him and these are his answers. This was a real man, with a real conviction. Horrific.
Merrily Watkins books are rather formulaic but still good fun. There is a lot of testosterone in this one as it is centred on Herefordshire's golden boys and Britain's elite - the SAS. What happens to you when you retire from a crack troop like that? You get reckless and die it would seem, but maybe not everyone? And what happens when you live around these guys but aren't one of them? There isn't a great deal for an exorcist to do so Merrily helps the police while Jane, being Jane, gets into serious trouble again. Not my favourite but entertaining enough.
Merrily Watkins books are rather formulaic but still good fun. There is a lot of testosterone in this one as it is centred on Herefordshire's golden boys and Britain's elite - the SAS. What happens to you when you retire from a crack troop like that? You get reckless and die it would seem, but maybe not everyone? And what happens when you live around these guys but aren't one of them? There isn't a great deal for an exorcist to do so Merrily helps the police while Jane, being Jane, gets into serious trouble again. Not my favourite but entertaining enough.
A bunch of ordinary people stuck in a tin can below the surface of the moon, battling one catastrophe after another, what is not to love? This is one of my favourite books and I can read it time and again, as indeed I have. So it seems a little dated? That is ok, after all it was written 53 years ago. If you ask me, it has stood the test of time pretty well. I read a review in which the reviewer considered it to be sexist - well, I don't agree. Put it in the context of the time it was written, it is remarkably forward thinking. There may not be any female scientists in the story but I can live with that, there still aren't as many as there should be in real life today. There are no aliens, monsters or zombies - just fine dust, trying to overcome them at every corner. Great fun.
A bunch of ordinary people stuck in a tin can below the surface of the moon, battling one catastrophe after another, what is not to love? This is one of my favourite books and I can read it time and again, as indeed I have. So it seems a little dated? That is ok, after all it was written 53 years ago. If you ask me, it has stood the test of time pretty well. I read a review in which the reviewer considered it to be sexist - well, I don't agree. Put it in the context of the time it was written, it is remarkably forward thinking. There may not be any female scientists in the story but I can live with that, there still aren't as many as there should be in real life today. There are no aliens, monsters or zombies - just fine dust, trying to overcome them at every corner. Great fun.
