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Title: X-Files: Skin by Ben Mezrich ISBN: 0-06-105644-8 Publisher: HarperEntertainment Pub. Date: 02 May, 2000 Format: Mass Market Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $6.50 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.51 (37 reviews)
Rating: 4
Summary: Skin-tingling
Comment: Skin is truly a terrifying X-Files novel. Ben Mezrich writes very fluidly yet concise, making the pace of this book quick and detailed all at once. I could easily see this as a traditional episode of the X-Files in its dark and spooky nature. However, the characters are very lifeless in this book, which make Mulder and Scully seem like different people than on the show, which is a little disappointing. But Skin is a must-read if you're looking for a creepy story that makes your "skin" tingle.
Rating: 4
Summary: This newest novelization of the X-Files gave me goosebumps!
Comment: I would like to start by stating that I thoroughly enjoyed this latest novelization of "The X-Files". While I would still rank "Ruins" as my favorite of the six novelizations of one of the world's favorite television series, this one certainly ranks up there. As I read the book, I could see the plot easily transferred into a two hour movie version of the series. With his first novelization, author Ben Mezrich (reportedly hand-picked by creator Chris Carter to pen this novel) does an excellent job of creating an X-File that is part scientific (for Agent Scully) yet paranormal enough to fire the interests of Agent Mulder. In the end, the reader is left with some blanks to fill in and the storyline does not completely resolve itself, the hallmark of a true X-File episode. The plot itself maintains a steady pace with enough twists and turns to keep the reader interested, yet does not confuse with too many diversions. Likewise, the characters are written to describe them physically, and yet insight into their personalities and motivations are provided mostly from observations of their actions and their words. The reader is not buried under paragraphs full of endless streams of consciousness rife with the motivations and desires of each character. But we are permitted almost as much a glance as perhaps is afforded Agents Mulder and Scully from their interactions with these characters. The agents themselves are characterized true to form. The author seems to feel more comfortable with the Mulder character. He describes his feelings of excitement and almost delight over the possibility of an X-File puzzle to explore, as well as providing us with plenty of witty "mulderisms" to produce a smile and giggle. Agent Scully is portrayed as more a slave to science, as well as to humanity, who seems to generally tolerate Mulder's forays into the unbelieveable, but does not dismiss them totally. Their well-oiled partnership, filled with trust, support and respect, is portrayed well in this novel. However, "shippers" beware, this novel has been deemed "noromo" safe. From the streets of New York City to the jungles of Thailand, Ben Mezrich has taken our favorite duo, as well as their reader, for a spine tingling ride, guaranteed to give your skin goosebumps.
Rating: 4
Summary: A Good Science Fiction Novel
Comment: In the Novel The X-Files Skin By Ben Mezrich Mulder and Scully are trying to find the person behind the disease thats on the skin and that gets people with superhuman strength and then dies later on. In the beginning of the book these two med. students are getting skin of a donor that is already dead for a professer that burned his skin in a water heater accendent that a bunch of steam went on his thigh. so after the opperation the doctor said he's find and everything went wrong from there. Agent Fox Mulder and Dana Scully got on the scene and ask workers and police what happened to the body of the professer where did it go and so on then they see a bloodbath in the Hosptial room where Perry Stanton was at and not no more only to find a nurse on the ground dead. As the Agents are investigating this strange case the Bureau is keeping everytthing hidden from Mulder and Scully. soon on Mulder and Scully are in Thailand searching for an abandoned MASH unit were nalpalm victims were treated for there injuryies even if some of the victims were nursed back to health and may not see there famlies. Scully goes on a hunt to find a experimental medical technology while Mulder stakes are even more higher than scully's while they try to find the Thai Monster known has the Skinn Eater. Ben Mezrich did a real good job in creating this novel because it even says on the back of the novel he's a X-Files Fan for many years and that he used to draw cartoons for a living but in the book he did good explaining every detail that Mulder and Scully went through, how everything that happened from begining to end. I my self really liked this novel its one of the best Science Fiction novels I read and i like the X-Files on tv because im really into top secert stuff like when Mulder searches for aliens and he thinks theres life out there so I think who ever likes the X-Files or Science Fiction Novels you should read this book
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Title: Antibodies (The X-Files) by Kevin J. Anderson ISBN: 0061056243 Publisher: HarperEntertainment Pub. Date: 01 May, 1998 List Price(USD): $6.50 |
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Title: The X-Files: Goblins by Charles Grant ISBN: 0061054143 Publisher: HarperEntertainment Pub. Date: 01 December, 1994 List Price(USD): $6.50 |
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Title: Ruins (The X-Files) by Kevin J. Anderson ISBN: 0061057363 Publisher: HarperEntertainment Pub. Date: 01 February, 1997 List Price(USD): $6.50 |
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Title: The X-Files: Ground Zero by Kevin J. Anderson, Chris Carter ISBN: 0061056774 Publisher: HarperEntertainment Pub. Date: 01 August, 1996 List Price(USD): $6.50 |
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Title: X Files #08 Voltage by Easton Royce ISBN: 0064406431 Publisher: HarperEntertainment Pub. Date: 30 September, 1996 List Price(USD): $4.50 |
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