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Dewey Decimal Number: 813 EAN: 9780553278446 ISBN: 0553278444 Label: Spectra Manufacturer: Spectra Number Of Items: 1 Publication Date: March 01, 1989 Publisher: Spectra Release Date: March 01, 1989 Studio: Spectra Average Rating:
 Rating:  - Love the series EXCEPT this bookWow. When I finished reading this book I almost gave up on the series (Book 4 was much better). While I have always found Jim to be a bit whiny, this book took him so far past my annoyance level that I was tempted to put it down after every chapter. While the "est" training was interesting at first, I did not enjoy having it shoved down my throat over the course of half of this book. Gerrold should have had more respect for the intelligence level of his readers. Find a good summary online and then ... Read More Rating:  - Best of the series!For those of us who actually have the intellectual capacity to READ the & grasp the whole book without getting a migraine and start whining about "psychobabble," this is by far the best of the series. The villain of the story is, in many ways, an good example of the philosophy that all knowledge is just a tool - whether is it good or evil is simply how it is applied. The villain himself is Modie, a process of the same training that McCarthy undergoes later in order to understand how he ... Read More Rating: - Hugely disappointingI rank the first two books of this series as being amongst the most engrossing that I have ever read. So I picked up book 3 with a great degree of excitement. Unfortunately, it's not justified. Big spoilers follow... A Rage For Revenge is a horrible, horrible book. There's virtually no action in it; instead we are treated to literally hundreds of pages of talking. This is not in and of itself a bad thing; talk can be utterly engrossing, if what the characters are talking about ... Read More Rating: - Meandering est-festAs is common in SF novel series (Dune is the classic example), each successive novel becomes progressively slower and more turgid. The War Against the Chtorr series is no exception. A Matter for Men sets up the series very well. The hero is flawed, but that's OK from a literary standpoint. The milieu Gerrold created is quite rich, and the mystery of the worms (are they intelligent? how did they get here?) is compelling. However, by the time we get to book 3 here, half the novel is wasted ... Read More Rating: - It's end of July 2004 and 5th book is not out yet... I love the whole series and I possibly agree that one should be careful with work of his life, but this more than ten years waiting should make David Gerrold ashamed nonetheless... One would think that any other authors have no problems whatsoever...(no fires, no kids, no divorces, nothing...) Poor David, but you really betrayng your readers!!! |
