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Title: The Ghosts of Sleath by James Herbert ISBN: 0-00-647597-3 Publisher: Acacia Press, Inc. Pub. Date: 1995 Format: Paperback List Price(USD): $19.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 2.75 (8 reviews)
Rating: 2
Summary: A Disapoinment, like everything else of his I've read...
Comment: I had to read this book as well as "The Haunted" after watching the movie on which, both novels are evidently based. I'm often amazed when a movie is better than the books. And in this case the movie was far superior! In writing, in plot, and pacing, the movie outstrips the books in a way that the author probably finds offensive.
Do not waste precious time on these novels, rent the movie instead. If you must read a suspense novel, particularly a british one, read a great one! I recommend anything by Phil Rickman who is phenomenal to say the very least.
Rating: 2
Summary: The Gore of Sleath
Comment: Here's the run down: You've got a emotionally compromised psychic investigator who has been sent to an intellectually compromised town. He's heard creepy stuff has been happening and he's a scientist sent to do his thing. He does everything but behave like one however.
To give him credit, 'ol Herb the author did have some suspense going. But as I was turning the pages, I was grimacing to find out what was next. There was an exceedingly large portion of icky violent scenes. And by ick, I mean things being ripped off, oozing down, cracking apart etc etc... Another con, would be the psychic-link romance quotient... Yeah, who'd a thought.
Rating: 3
Summary: Not quite Herbert's best
Comment: Unfortunately Herbert somehow fails to capture the imagination in The Ghosts of Sleath as much as he does in most of his other books. The story centres around psychic investigator, David Ash, who delves into mysterious events that are terrorizing the community of Sleath, where he comes across a dark character called Phelan. Though the premise of the book is sound, and though there are solid descriptions, somehow Herbert doesn't quite capture the imagination. Maybe it's that word 'solid' that gives the clue.
None of Herbert's books could be called weak, and I'd like to give this one three-and-a-half stars, but The Ghosts of Sleath doesn't quite come up to the spendid page-gripping terror that this author is well capable of. Don't let that put you off either this book or James Herbert, because it's still darn good reading.
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Title: Haunted by James Herbert ISBN: 0515103454 Publisher: Jove Pubns Pub. Date: September, 1993 List Price(USD): $6.99 |
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Title: Others by James Herbert ISBN: 0812579046 Publisher: Tor Books Pub. Date: 15 November, 2000 List Price(USD): $6.99 |
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Title: The House Next Door by Anne Rivers Siddons ISBN: 0061008737 Publisher: HarperTorch Pub. Date: 01 February, 1995 List Price(USD): $7.99 |
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Title: Sepulchre by James Herbert ISBN: 0340394722 Publisher: Hodder & Stoughton Pub. Date: January, 1987 List Price(USD): $10.95 |
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