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Summary: Worth every minute to read
Review: This was my first crack at Huggins. Since finishing this, I finished A Wolf Story and Hunter. Cain is a fantastically fun book to read and worth every minute you will invest in it. I appreciate the fact that a confessing Christian can write this type of book. Peretti has become very bland in his adventures and his writing. While the Left Behind series is a hit, none of those books compare to Cain. Buy it.
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Summary: A DEPRESSING book
Review: Christ, this is the most depressing book I've ever read? Why? Well, take someone who could read anything a thousand years ago. He probably had to become really well educated to do it; he just didn't learn to read and then stay an idiot. Nowadays we have the opposite, like whatever so-called editor must have been stupid enough to approve this thing, or any reader dumb enough to like it. I can't even begin to catalog the errors in this piece of trash, from the made-up history to the misuse of words like "epiphenomenalism." And I'll tell you one thing, Huggins doesn't know biology worth jack and neither does whoever was supposed to be editing him. Viruses are made of RNA not DNA. If someone had to replenish himself with "human DNA" he might EAT people but he sure as hell wouldn't drink blood, since it's mostly plasma and red blood cells, which most fifth graders know lack nuclei. Then again, replenishing with "human DNA" would be pretty close to impossible when nucleic acids are broken down in the digestive tract anyway. (I won't even go into why having steroid- producing" cells in your arms and legs wouldn't make you superhumanly strong.) Hope I haven't burst anyone's bubble but if you read this and don't get depressed that something this bad got published and made someone a truckload of undeserved money, no one should have taught you to read in the first place.
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Summary: Sometimes fun--but there's better out there!
Review: Reading this book is like gulping down a Big Mac and fries--it hits the spot, but it's not that good for you. I was really torn in reviewing this. Plot-wise and concept-wise it's simplistic but very effective. On the other hand, the prose is so amatuerish it's laughable. Huggins claims to have been a journalist but I'd have hated to be his editor! In fact, he also claims to have been a cop and in the military, but (as other reviewers pointed out) many of his details are equally bad. (A MYLAR vest?!?!?) Worst of all, his historical and philosophical grounding is as skewed as you'd expect from a "Christian" writer--just the sort of semi-truth they spew around about archeology or Hebrew language at the typical Bible college. (First of all, there were Stone, Copper, Bronze and Iron Ages--but no such thing as the "Silver Age," during Davidic times or any other. Second, there's absolutely no reason a Judeo-Christian demon would rant in "Silver Age" LATIN either, as opposed to, say, Hebrew.) I did enjoy this book at times, but I probably would have been easier on it if I hadn't just read EYES by Robert Subiaga, Jr. (Also sold on Amazon.com) Let me tell you, THAT'A a book that has it together in everything from philosophy and metaphysics to martial arts and weaponry. Go ahead and order CAIN if you must but then you owe it to yourself to read something like EYES and compare them.
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Summary: I'm being generous with the stars......
Review: If you are a teenage boy or a thirty year old burnout living in your parents basement then this book is for you. Otherwise I suggest reading the Exorcist for horror or watching Buffy and Angel for good drama and the laughs. This book plain *****.
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Summary: Far too many genre's in just one book
Review: James Byron Huggins tries to combine every genre you can imagine in this book. There is science fiction, action, adventure, mystery, devil worship, romance, and conspiracy theories. The book plays out as more of an action movie or video game. The only character with any real depth is soloman. I felt the book had an interesting plot, but never amounted to much. The ending turned out better than i had anticipated and saved it from only getting one star.
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Summary: The best novel I have read so far!
Review: Most everyone else here basically out lined the story so there is no point in repeating myself here! I just wanted to comment because this book was excellent, and I think everyone who likes reading novels should read this book! It was incredible! It had amazing action and the characters in there all seemed so real. It was very, very good! Definitely the best book I had read so far! I am reading though another book called the Hunter again written by Huggins and it does have the makings of being better than Cain! I don't know I might like that better when I finish it, but I would definitely recommend reading all of his books!
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Summary: Still Waiting
Review: Huggins can write. In fact, he can overwrite--and he does so liberally. His words can paint a great picture, but he refuses to trust the reader with a few adjectives; he seems to think an overdosage is required. There: that's off my chest. The basic story is compelling, and certain scenes come vividly to life in the imagination. I appreciated the good vs evil aspects and felt he handled them well without turning them into sermonettes. Unfortunately, as in Leviathian, I felt he ran out of plot. He keeps the story going with one, or two, or three more incidents of the monster rising again from the rubble. It's similar to a thrill-ride on a careless action flick--it's fun while it lasts, but when it's over, you feel vaguely empty. Huggins seems to have found a niche, and he has the skill to portray his ideas. I only wish he would flesh out the characters more, and leave some of the imagery for us readers to flesh out on our own. Meanwhile, I'll wait for the intelligent thriller I know he has brewing somewhere inside. In my opinion, he hasn't served that one up quite yet.
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Summary: Killer book
Review: Great book,could'nt put down after that I read it again and again and again.All I got to say is I'm hooked on the action.
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Summary: Shoot Him Already
Review: Here comes the formula...the old warrior punishing himself because he lost his wife and little daughter, the self-questioning Jesuit priest, the good looking scientist babe and her little daughter. See where this is going yet? Cain, supercharged and dyno-tuned, is the six million dollar man with a silly religious twist. Cain can rip through steel, run like a cheetah and throw dice with the best of them. Of course the protagonist (name of Solomon no less) is much tougher. He fights with Cain with regularity and never really gets hurt. The Jesuit priest must have seen "The Exorcist" one time too many as he wields his silver crucifix and slips into the thees and thous of King James English. I won't even go into the Mother Superior nervously fingering her rosary beads. If you wasted time with this tripe; perhaps you wondered (as I did),why the government just didn't call in a sniper with a tranquilizer gun..... I know this book put me to sleep!
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Summary: "Literature" ???
Review: What a laughable effort, though presumably quite lucrative for the author and the publisher. The writing is so bad, as to become masochistically enjoyable. Pompous adjectives drip from the pages, it's hard to stop yourself from laughing out loud. How's this for a literary effort: ".. blood-drenched gargoyle emerging from a bone-littered tomb, raising black-taloned hands .." ? Uff. Expected Simon & Schuster to employ editors of some taste and knowledge. Probably the most pitiful bit is the remark in "Acknowledgments" of using "well over a hundred reference materials" - well, nothing can really replace literary talent and true erudition, can it ? Minus 10 stars for greed and lack of talent.
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