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Summary: Beware The Fog, it will drive you mad!
Review: "I was sitting in a meeting when I wondered what would happen if the main speaker just got up and jumped out the window?" - James Herbert on the key visual idea that led to his writing The Fog.When an earthquake shatters an otherwise peaceful day, no one notices the yellow mist that drifts from the yawning chasm that has opened up beneath the main street. But the violent, babbling madman that is dragged from the trench afterwards gives everyone a hint as to the horrors that are to come. It seems that a bacterial weapon has gotten loose and, as it interacts with the air, the mist thickens into a roaming, yellowish fog that drives any and all exposed to it mad. As entire communities fall victim to its horrible effects, the authorities wonder how it can be stopped. James Herbert's second novel is just as much a zesty sex laced blood bath as his first and it makes a great double bill with Richard Layman's One Rainy Night.
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Summary: Beware The Fog, it will drive you mad!
Review: "I was sitting in a meeting when I wondered what would happen if the main speaker just got up and jumped out the window?" - James Herbert on the key visual idea that led to his writing The Fog. When an earthquake shatters an otherwise peaceful day, no one notices the yellow mist that drifts from the yawning chasm that has opened up beneath the main street. But the violent, babbling madman that is dragged from the trench afterwards gives everyone a hint as to the horrors that are to come. It seems that a bacterial weapon has gotten loose and, as it interacts with the air, the mist thickens into a roaming, yellowish fog that drives any and all exposed to it mad. As entire communities fall victim to its horrible effects, the authorities wonder how it can be stopped. James Herbert's second novel is just as much a zesty sex laced blood bath as his first and it makes a great double bill with Richard Layman's One Rainy Night.
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Summary: Big disappointment after "The Rats"
Review: "The Fog": most of a village in Wiltshire, England, is swallowed up in a great big crack which yawns open through one of the roads. Out of it seeps a mysterious yellow fog that drives people and animals insane. There you have it. Unfortunately, the hole in the ground wasn't the only thing that was yawning before long. Don't get me wrong, here Herbert has been even more inventive than with "The Rats" in thinking up new and exciting ways for people to kill each other. But between these episodes we're forced to sit through the 'heroic' exploits of a hero even more irritating than that bloke in "The Rats". Just what century was this book written in, anyway? The hero practically drags his girlfriend around by the hair! And why are they always so willing to cook and clean for them, and yeild so excitably to their every sexual whim? Come on, Herbert! And stop making disgusting caricatures of people from Manchester, too! All this could be sort of forgivable, as it was with "The Rats", if this were scary. It isn't. It's actually rather dull, in my opinion. "The Rats" horrified me like no other book has done since Stephen King's "It" and Lincoln Preston's "The Relic". This horrified me like no other miserable second novel has done since Lincoln Preston's "Mount Dragon". I'd recommend it to anyone younger, although not too young because there is a lot of blood spilled once again. Hopefully that'll distract their attention from the miserable pickings of a plot.
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Summary: Big disappointment after "The Rats"
Review: "The Fog": most of a village in Wiltshire, England, is swallowed up in a great big crack which yawns open through one of the roads. Out of it seeps a mysterious yellow fog that drives people and animals insane. There you have it. Unfortunately, the hole in the ground wasn't the only thing that was yawning before long. Don't get me wrong, here Herbert has been even more inventive than with "The Rats" in thinking up new and exciting ways for people to kill each other. But between these episodes we're forced to sit through the 'heroic' exploits of a hero even more irritating than that bloke in "The Rats". Just what century was this book written in, anyway? The hero practically drags his girlfriend around by the hair! And why are they always so willing to cook and clean for them, and yeild so excitably to their every sexual whim? Come on, Herbert! And stop making disgusting caricatures of people from Manchester, too! All this could be sort of forgivable, as it was with "The Rats", if this were scary. It isn't. It's actually rather dull, in my opinion. "The Rats" horrified me like no other book has done since Stephen King's "It" and Lincoln Preston's "The Relic". This horrified me like no other miserable second novel has done since Lincoln Preston's "Mount Dragon". I'd recommend it to anyone younger, although not too young because there is a lot of blood spilled once again. Hopefully that'll distract their attention from the miserable pickings of a plot.
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Summary: Get lost in "The Fog."
Review: A strange earthquake in a quiet English village unleashes a mysterious fog that roams the countryside and heads towards London. What makes this fog different is that everyone who enters it becomes a murderous lunatic with suicidal tendencies. Even animals are affected. But what is the fog? Is it a supernatural force? An unknown gas from beneath the earth? Something from the nearby army base? The only man who can stop it is the first man who was affected by it. He was cured in time and has developed an immunity. Unfortunately, everyone else around him, including his girlfriend, are still susceptible and could turn on him if caught in the fog.
"The Fog" is a rollicking good horror thriller which ups the ante with every chapter. The breezy style of Herbert's writing is very visual and he takes the time to fully develop his secondary characters before polishing them off in a gory and bloody manner.
Originally published in 1975, "The Fog" was then, according to my 1987 edition, reprinted 27 times. I think that speaks volumes for the popularity and quality of the book.
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Summary: Quick read if you can forgive some predictable outcomes
Review: An interest grabbing page flipping relatively easy flowing plot; poor characterisations though. Zero character development: a very much in-your-face paper thin characters-driven-by-plot figures; almost hitchcock like small excitements for the occasional diversion. Good read on the train! JH must have written it on one too!
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Summary: "The Fog" left me in one!
Review: Disappointment is too mild a word for what I felt after reading James Herbert's "The Fog". I know that many reviewers before me have raved about this "classic" horror novel, but in my humble opinion, it left me wondering if I had read the wrong novel. It's too bad because I really wanted this book to "work". I think part of my disappointment stemmed from the fact that most of the characters were either uninteresting or poorly fleshed out. And the plot...while extremely promising in the beginning, basically plodded along and collapsed at the finish.
Oh, there's plenty of gore and gruesome scenes in the book, but not enough to save a basically weak effort by one of the great horror novelists. Now I know not everyone is going to agree with my opinion, but after reading hundreds of horror novels over the years, I guess I have a right to it! Sorry Mr. Herbert! IMHO, for a better use of your time and money, go out and rent John Carpenter's loose version of "The Fog". It's a scare-a-minute thrill-fest that, if nothing else, will hold your interest because of Jamie Lee Curtis and Adrienne Barbeau.
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Summary: "The Fog" left me in one!
Review: Disappointment is too mild a word for what I felt after reading James Herbert's "The Fog". I know that many reviewers before me have raved about this "classic" horror novel, but in my humble opinion, it left me wondering if I had read the wrong novel. It's too bad because I really wanted this book to "work". I think part of my disappointment stemmed from the fact that most of the characters were either uninteresting or poorly fleshed out. And the plot...while extremely promising in the beginning, basically plodded along and collapsed at the finish.
Oh, there's plenty of gore and gruesome scenes in the book, but not enough to save a basically weak effort by one of the great horror novelists. Now I know not everyone is going to agree with my opinion, but after reading hundreds of horror novels over the years, I guess I have a right to it! Sorry Mr. Herbert! IMHO, for a better use of your time and money, go out and rent John Carpenter's loose version of "The Fog". It's a scare-a-minute thrill-fest that, if nothing else, will hold your interest because of Jamie Lee Curtis and Adrienne Barbeau.
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Summary: "The Fog" left me in one!
Review: Disappointment is too mild a word for what I felt after reading James Herbert's "The Fog". I know that many reviewers before me have raved about this "classic" horror novel, but in my humble opinion, it left me wondering if I had read the wrong novel. It's too bad because I really wanted this book to "work". I think part of my disappointment stemmed from the fact that most of the characters were either uninteresting or poorly fleshed out. And the plot...while extremely promising in the beginning, basically plodded along and collapsed at the finish.
Oh, there's plenty of gore and gruesome scenes in the book, but not enough to save a basically weak effort by one of the great horror novelists. Now I know not everyone is going to agree with my opinion, but after reading hundreds of horror novels over the years, I guess I have a right to it! Sorry Mr. Herbert! IMHO, for a better use of your time and money, go out and rent John Carpenter's loose version of "The Fog". It's a scare-a-minute thrill-fest that, if nothing else, will hold your interest because of Jamie Lee Curtis and Adrienne Barbeau.
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Summary: I'm wary about seeing Fog now!
Review: Following a sudden earthquake in a peaceful English village, a yellow fog arises. Nobody thinks anything of it until sudden outbreaks of insanity occur following the path of the Fog.Insanity that drives both man and animal to act out of ordinary, commit mass suicide and even kill. There is only one man immune to the Fog's touch, so he has to find out what the Fog is before it comes to the heavily populated city of London. A great Horror/Thriller that keeps you on the edge of your seat waiting for more and more of the gruesome effects of the Fog. Written in 1975, the gruesome factor would have been 'over the top', not so much these days but it still packs a punch. Characterisation is excellent, especially his secondary characters which he will build up then kill off with a blood-gurgling finish. The writing is also very visual with no confusion about what is going on. The setting in cold, foggy England really helps with the forboding chilling feeling you get with this book as well. James Herbert is up there as being one of the top Horror writers along with Stephen King and Richard Laymon. Very enjoyable. RECOMMENDED TO ALL!
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