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Title: Reign of the Dead : by Len Barnhart ISBN: 0-595-19203-3 Publisher: Writer's Showcase Press Pub. Date: 22 July, 2001 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $15.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.45 (31 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Best book I've read
Comment: I've noticed that some people in the reviews wrote that book didn't explain too much. The second book basically ties up all the loose ends. They are also both fun to read. I couldn't put this book down, and I usually hate reading. I basically find no joy or fun in it, and get bored very quickly with it. Not this book. I have also read some people saying that it takes too much from the George A. Romero films, such as Night, or Dawn. GAR set the standard for zombie horror. Reign has a good (and unique) explaniation for why the dead walk, but when it comes to the whole destroying the brain idea, or the dead being slow and dumb, it's really the same thing as an author of a vampire story using sunlight or a stake to kill a vampire, or a silver bullet to kill a werewolf.
Rating: 3
Summary: Needs a good editor
Comment: I am really into the subject of the living dead. Movies, books, comics, you name it. Because of this I have a hard time disliking anything in the genre, including this book. To me, the idea is strong enough to carry most attempts, even if poorly executed. That is, unfortunately, the way I see this. book. A great story idea, but a very weak book.
The grammar is horrible, almost bad enough to not read the book. When I say the grammar is bad you may be thinking that I am being harsh and overly analytical, but I assure you that is not the case. The author has made grammatical mistakes that shouldn't be made after the second grade. We're not talking about simple misspellings (although there are plenty of them), but structural errors that caused me to have to reread sections two or three time to get what the author meant.
One other thing that got to me was the complete lack of research done. If you are going to take the time to write a book you really ought to take the time to read about the incidental subject matter covered in your book. Learn about how viruses work. Read up on the electron microscope if you are going to have one used in the story (electron microscopes don't show images of living, moving things. You have to coat what you're looking at in a silver solution, and everything is dead...thus, no evil diseases floating around).
Anyway, I do recommend the book if you like the living dead, and if you can tolerate bad writing in order to get to a really good story idea.
Rating: 1
Summary: Horrible, and not in the way the author intended
Comment: The novelty of a zombie thriller set in an area of Virginia that I know well compelled me to buy this book, which isn't carried on many bookstore shelves. After reading it, I realized that there's a good reason that it's not carried on many bookstore shelves: it's amateurish to the point of near-illegibility.
The author's stick figure characters, coupled with a stilted, disjunctive writing style, left me regretting that I wasted my time reading this; fortunately, not much time was wasted. The core premise isn't bad -- if unoriginal -- but Barnhart's sloppy plot development, lack of credible characters, and cheesey dialogue put this book on the list of novels that should go out of print. At some point, I considered that this book was intended for teenagers or adults with learning disabilities but the writer's poor grammar killed that theory.
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Title: The Dead by Mark E. Rogers ISBN: 0741405563 Publisher: Buy Books on the web.com Pub. Date: 2000 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
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Title: The Zombie Survival Guide : Complete Protection from the Living Dead by MAX BROOKS ISBN: 1400049628 Publisher: Three Rivers Press Pub. Date: 16 September, 2003 List Price(USD): $12.95 |
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Title: The Rising by Brian Keene ISBN: 0843952016 Publisher: Leisure Books Pub. Date: January, 2004 List Price(USD): $6.99 |
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Title: The Dead Shall Inherit the Earth by Vince Churchill ISBN: 1591130409 Publisher: Booklocker.com Pub. Date: December, 2001 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
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Title: Book of All Flesh by James Lowder ISBN: 1891153870 Publisher: Eden Studios, Inc. Pub. Date: 01 October, 2001 List Price(USD): $15.95 |
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