http://www.bookgasm.com/reviews/horror/terminal/ reading material to get excited about Fri, 10 Feb 2012 20:08:36 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 http://www.bookgasm.com/reviews/horror/terminal/comment-page-1/#comment-14795 Bookgasm: Reading Material to Get Excited About » Blog Archive » Dead Sea Wed, 19 Sep 2007 12:02:55 +0000 http://www.bookgasm.com/?p=46#comment-14795 [...] BOOKGASM REVIEWS OF THIS AUTHOR: • THE CONQUEROR WORMS by Brian Keene • TERMINAL by Brian [...] [...] BOOKGASM REVIEWS OF THIS AUTHOR: • THE CONQUEROR WORMS by Brian Keene • TERMINAL by Brian [...]

]]> http://www.bookgasm.com/reviews/horror/terminal/comment-page-1/#comment-4454 The Conqueror Worms » Bookgasm Thu, 27 Jul 2006 15:43:46 +0000 http://www.bookgasm.com/?p=46#comment-4454 [...] In books like TERMINAL, Keene knows how to keep you turning those paperback pages. But THE CONQUEROR WORMS sounds more like an idea for a 1950s Saturday-morning matinee than a horror novel. That’s the biggest problem with the book: Worms aren’t scary. Even giant ones. The very concept carries a hint of self-parody, but Keene’s treatment is serious. His weakest point remains dialogue – I cringed at every “bro,” “dawg” and misguided, homespun analogy – but even with its faults, it remains intermittently entertaining. So while it’s not up there with his strongest works, it’s not to be automatically ignored. I stuck with it because there’s a certain novelty to a worm-invasion novel (seriously, how many of those have you read?) even if the entirety isn’t exactly satisfying. –Rod Lott [...] [...] In books like TERMINAL, Keene knows how to keep you turning those paperback pages. But THE CONQUEROR WORMS sounds more like an idea for a 1950s Saturday-morning matinee than a horror novel. That’s the biggest problem with the book: Worms aren’t scary. Even giant ones. The very concept carries a hint of self-parody, but Keene’s treatment is serious. His weakest point remains dialogue – I cringed at every “bro,” “dawg” and misguided, homespun analogy – but even with its faults, it remains intermittently entertaining. So while it’s not up there with his strongest works, it’s not to be automatically ignored. I stuck with it because there’s a certain novelty to a worm-invasion novel (seriously, how many of those have you read?) even if the entirety isn’t exactly satisfying. –Rod Lott [...]

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