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Title: The Rats (Macmillan UK Audio Books) by James Herbert, Steven Pacey ISBN: 0-333-78012-4 Publisher: Trafalgar Square Pub. Date: October, 2000 Format: Audio Cassette Volumes: 2 List Price(USD): $16.99 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.17 (12 reviews)
Rating: 4
Summary: The horror novel that launched an entire genre!
Comment: This slim, grim piece of b-movie trash (and believe me, I mean that in the most positive and respectful way) actually launched a sub-genre in the british horror novel industry - the mutant pet and/or pest novel. The next few years would see bookshelves stuffed with grue dripping books about killer cats, dogs, bats, crabs, slugs (yes, I said slugs), spiders, jellyfish, and assorted other nasties. For this alone Herbert's novel deserves some kind of special recognition.
The novel itself was written, by hand I believe, on a lark. In one interview Herbert even admitted to not even bothering to do a rewrite! The story is simple: giant mutant rats gobble down assorted victims as, in between the gruesome attacks, scientists and members of the government scratch their heads and wonder how to do away with the seemingly indestructable beasties. In what would grow to be a trademark storytelling style, Herbert lavishes as much character detail on the victims to be as he does on the actual characters. An essential book for animal on the rampage buffs and rodent lovers everywhere.
Rating: 4
Summary: This book really scared me.
Comment: If this is the book I think it is, I read it in high school many moons ago. It scared me so bad I kept thinking there were rats in my bedroom at night while I was sleeping. It is one of few horror stories that had that effect on me. The only other I can think of that left that big of an impression on me was Steven King's " IT". The Rats is more creepy because it could really happen. If you are a horror fan, and you like losing sleep for a few days after reading a book, This book is definately for you. It is about some rats who go crazy and start eating up this town. The people try to poison them but they are too smart for that. So they have to try something else. Meantime the rats are in the school, the hospital, everywhere. REALLY CREEPY!
Rating: 5
Summary: The Rats
Comment: As the result of genetic engineering gone wrong, the rats of London have evolved. They are no longer the small black dirty things that sculk about under floorboards and flee at the first sight of man. They are big, and getting bolder by the day. After their first of human victim, they have decided they want more. It is with a chill that man decides it cannot stop them.
This is one of James Herbert's best books. It is incredibly difficult to put it down, and it keeps its qualities to the last page. The morbid horror of it grips you, as well as the involvement you feel with the main character as he tries to face the rats.
It is not a book for the faint hearted.
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Title: Domain by James Herbert ISBN: 0451134710 Publisher: New American Library Pub. Date: December, 1985 List Price(USD): $3.50 |
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Title: Lair by James Herbert ISBN: 0451165640 Publisher: New American Library Pub. Date: March, 1990 List Price(USD): $3.95 |
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Title: The Survivor by James Herbert ISBN: 0451160207 Publisher: New American Library Pub. Date: October, 1988 List Price(USD): $3.95 |
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