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will love Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. Excellently written and I can't put it down. Much like Stephen King, he snags you from the beginning. ( )It was a great novel. This is the first novel that I read from Scott Sigler. Very impressed. I can't wait to read his other novels. "The Triangles" were very interesting. I personally think it was the best parts of the novel when he was trying to kill them. There's really only one thing to say... "EW." I don't think I've ever read a book that grossed me out more. It was great. 3/5 totally, utterly, nasty, disgusting ...uh... fungi?... that one could be afflicted with. My review of sorts: I listened to the author narrated podiobooks for both of these books and all I can say is WOW! They were awesome. Full of action, blood, violence, death, mayhem you name it, it's in there somewhere I assure you. I loved the story line and the characters had me pulling for them right from the beginning. The big gruff football player and the sassy female doctor and the military boys all were like able and interesting characters. The funny thing is I even liked the creepy crawly invaders too. The blue triangles with the single black eye on each side. They're just right amount of creepy to give you goose pimples and yet you still kinda secretly like them just a little even though they are out to get you. These books are not for the faint of heart though. There is a lot of blood, language, violence and creepiness in them to fill a stadium. So if you are squeamish in anyway they're probably not your thing but if your not...Read them! I just finished Infected and I'm left with: "I need to find the next book!". It's science fiction (somewhat) as it's taken place in present day with scientific theories and studies. However there's not a lot of science to make you go "Huh?" and a little bit of technical terminology but nothing that will make you feel as if you have to be a rocket scientist to read the book. (Added bonus there's no physics! har har). When I first picked up this book I thought it was going to be a zombie novel but I was far wrong. It's totally different and I think I'm going to leave it up to you to pick it up and read. Yes, it has something to do with disease and some medical issues but that's where it stops and the insanity starts. There's plenty of action in this book, and it actually starts in the prologue and in the first few chapters so you definitely won't be bored. There is graphic detail, so if you're squeamish or if you're eating dinner it's not recommended. There were parts in there that made me just want to cringe in pain and it went on for several pages and chapters but it's essential to the plot in my opinion. There are elements of comedy (albeit dark comedy) that do make you laugh out loud (at least I did) but it's enough to keep light of the situation but at the same time shows the seriousness of what's going on. (You'll laugh with the incident of Perry and his bare butt with the ruler..don't ask just read it) :D Character wise, I'd have to like Dew. He's your regular soldier turned CIA guy with a edge for sarcasm and wit. Plus he has a thing for tootsie rolls and throwing the wrappers on the floor wherever he is, I just thought that was a funny quirk of his. It's hard to describe him, I guess he's your tough guy with the one liners but not the cheesy cliche ones. So that makes him cool in my book. The drawback of this novel? hmmm. Well if you're squeamish I guess it would be that, there is quite a bit of swearing if it bothers you. For me, it would be this stupid "sexual tension" between two characters (who I didn't really like to start with). In the words of a character named Amos: "Why don't you two just fuck and get it over with already?" pretty much sums up those two. All in all a great read! no reviews | add a review
Amazon.com Product Description (ISBN 0307406105, Hardcover)Across America a mysterious disease is turning ordinary people into raving, paranoid murderers who inflict brutal horrors on strangers, themselves, and even their own families.Working under the government’s shroud of secrecy, CIA operative Dew Phillips crisscrosses the country trying in vain to capture a live victim. With only decomposing corpses for clues, CDC epidemiologist Margaret Montoya races to analyze the science behind this deadly contagion. She discovers that these killers all have one thing in common – they’ve been contaminated by a bioengineered parasite, shaped by a complexity far beyond the limits of known science. Meanwhile Perry Dawsey – a hulking former football star now resigned to life as a cubicle-bound desk jockey – awakens one morning to find several mysterious welts growing on his body. Soon Perry finds himself acting and thinking strangely, hearing voices . . . he is infected. The fate of the human race may well depend on the bloody war Perry must wage with his own body, because the parasites want something from him, something that goes beyond mere murder. Infected is the first major print release from Internet phenom Scott Sigler, whose podcast-only audiobooks have drawn an immense cult following, with more than three million individual episodes downloaded. Now Sigler storms the bookstore shelves with this cinematic, relentlessly paced novel that mixes and matches genres, combining horror, technothriller, and suspense in a heady mix that is equal parts Chuck Palahniuk, Michael Crichton, and Stephen King. Infected will crawl beneath your skin and leave fresh blood on every page. (retrieved from Amazon Fri, 24 Apr 2009 07:57:56 -0400) The first test round has been closed. Visit the Open Shelves Classification group for details. |
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