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Summary: Unforgettable Images
Review: I absolutely loved this book. I read it almost two years ago, and plan on reading it again. Mark E. Rogers has a wonderful imagination. I've read several of his other books, and can't believe some of the things he comes up with! The Dead left images in my head that will never be forgotten. I was seeing hands clawing out of the ground everywhere I looked for a long time after reading it.
As for the grammer and spelling, who cares??? I read books for the content, not to spell check them.
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Summary: A great read
Review: To say it like so many other reviewers of this book: I couldn't put it down!
I was given this book in college (years ago, at the University where the author's wife teaches, actually). I love sci-fi and fantasy, but this book goes beyond that, adding a spiritual dimension which is often lacking in "better" books. In addition, it's based in our own world (unlike most of his books) and really makes you question whether some of the biblical "end-times" stories are really so crazy after all. The blood and guts aspects seem to me to be an attempt by Rogers to make the book as real as possible on all fronts. At the end of the story, guns and muscle and clever thinking don't win the day, and the characters realize that they really have been part of the End of the World.
Some of the reviewers complain about the proofreading for the book. I can only say that I have a copy of the original (non-Infinity) book, and there are no such problems with it.
In short, if you are not put off by high levels of violence and want to see how the Christian worldview can indeed make for a viable story line, this book is for you.
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Summary: Forget _Left Behind_, Read _the Dead_
Review: _The Dead_ is not your typical end of the world horror story.Mark Rogers masterfully combines threads from theology, fantasy, and gothic horror to create a unique page turner. Honestly, it was not what I expected. I started reading Mark Roger's works with _The Nightmare of God_ and was assuming _The Dead_ was something along the same lines. While many of Mark Roger's other fictional works are set in a fantasy world, _The Dead_ takes place in the modern day on the eastern seaboard of the US. The story starts with a version of the "rapture" (where some of the faithful are spirited away in the final days to heaven before the trials to follow). The main draw for me in this book was that the protagonists seemed to be doing all the right things, and they were still challenged. So many mass market horror novels feature nearly mindless protagonists that the dim witted horror novel hero is cliched. You won't find any half-wit heroes in this book. The really frightening thing about _The Dead_ is that death is only the beginning of the horror. In most mainstream horror, death is one of the few escapes from the horror. In the _The Dead_ the last thing you want to do is die, because it translates into an eternity of suffering. Another neat feature of this book is the level of detail that the author included about the various shops, streets, and scenes. It is obvious that Mark Rogers knows the geography of the area where the story takes place inside and out. Just for point of reference, I did not notice typos, etc. They may have been there, but if there were mistakes present then they were not glaring enough for me to take a conscious note of them. I recommend you buy this book!
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Summary: epilszak@yahoo.com
Review: Wow. How to start. Well, this book gained notoriety in my circle of friends, getting passed around from one to another. Then, it was my turn. I was hooked from the first, being a fan of zombie movies and such. A strange thing happened as I read The Dead. The book starts to get into a lot of Catholic theology, but never gets preachy, more of an explanatory tone; hey, here's what I beleive, etc., through one of the characters, to explain what is happening. Instead of this bogging down the book, it drew me in even more, having had a Catholic upbringing. A real tension is developed among the characters; who will make it through this, and why. The main bad guy/king zombie/demon is genuinely terrifying, not because he's some kind of typical bad mofo, but because he knows your sins, he knows your worst secrets, and is ready to hand out retribution for them. All in all, this is a great twist on the worn out zombies back from the dead genre.
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Summary: Zombie fiction at it's finest
Review: This book is a must read for any zombie lover. The undead in this book are vicious. The action is fast and furious and the reasoning for the dead walking again is very compelling. These are zombie from the classic Romero mold "When there is no more room in the hell the dead shall walk the earth." This book would make an excellent movie. You will find yourself not able to put this book down and wanting to read it again once you are done.
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Summary: The Dead
Review: The Dead was a good, quick read for me. It was so quick because I couldn't stop reading it once I got started. Things start out nice and fast with a corpse bashing his way out of a coffin and move right along as a zombie crisis snowballs towards some really freaky scenes later on. You get to know many of the characters pretty well before they get eaten alive or mutilated in various unpleasant ways. Disturbingly, their tormentors are often people who were close to them in life before rising as murderous zombies. The living characters have to fight back to survive, and thus are forced to face the horror of hacking loved ones to pieces or blowing huge holes in them. Considering the tortured existence of the undead and the desperate struggles of the living it is tough at times to know who to feel sorriest for here. You'll know by the end of the book though. I hate to give away too many details, but there's a creature a little later in the book that you really have to see, and I don't mean a zombie. This thing is pretty weird, and it just might change how you think about supernatural beings. There's also some really twisted stuff in here, so if you'd be squeamish about things like somebody getting the skin ripped off of their face like a mask you might want to read something else. I like that kind of stuff though...at least in books...
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Summary: New Life for The Dead
Review: The Dead, by Mark E. Rogers Another tired "the dead come back to life" story?
Only if Star Wars was just another tired space movie. The Dead by Mark E. Rogers breathes new life (okay it's a pun, get over it) into the venerable walking dead genre. What HAD become an anemic, self-indulgent genre that has gradually decayed into little more than a never-ending series of pathetic vampire recyclings has suddenly sat up on the morgue gurney and is once again staring you straight in the eyes. This book is alive, and it wants you. I first read this book a few years ago and was stupid enough to loan my only copy to someone who never returned it. I went for years wanting to reread it, but couldn't until its recent republishing. I quickly scooped up a new copy and sat down just to get started. That was a mistake. Hours later I finally was able to put it down, surprised that it had managed to do that to me on a SECOND reading for God's sake. Let's say you wake up one morning and a lot of people are missing. Simply gone. Some of them were people you knew very well. Perhaps your own mother, or your wife. Just vanished. You've heard of that old Revelation thing, but no one ever really took that seriously, did they? That's not worth believing, is it? Then the dead show up, and maybe some of THEM are people you knew very well. Except these aren't your old, slow, stupid movie dead. These dead people are fast, intelligent, articulate, and [angry]. Even the military is having trouble with them. Can it get worse than that? Maybe. What if suddenly they had a LEADER? Some stories are able to get by solely on their plot premise, some on their characters, some on their action, some on their dialogue, some purely on the emotional or intellectual demand they manage to make on you. This is one of those rare stories that has all of that. It is one of the few stories I've read recently that I would honestly like to see show up on the screen. Most aren't worth that effort. This one is more than worth it. This book NEEDS to be a movie. If you pick up a copy of this book, take these two pieces of advice: 1 - Don't start reading it until you have a lot of time to kill (yeah, I know, I did it again); you'll be amazed at what happens to you. 2 - Don't loan it to anyone. Make them buy their own ... copy. --Dave in Maryland, USA
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Summary: DO NOT, I REPEAT, DO NOT BUY THIS BOOK!
Review: I might seem a bit hostile in reviewing this book, because I was MISLED my the reviews here on Amazon. Everyone makes it seem like this book is a fantastic read, when it's NOT. The story SEEMED captivating, but to tell you the truth: IT WASN'T. The characters were dumb and predictable, the story itself was predictable. Not only was the story predictable, but it sure as hell wasn't scary. There were all types of spelling errors and printing errors. More than once, words were ran together with NO space between. I felt like a was reading a rough draft in grade school. My twelve year old sister can write scarrier stories than this. What was the author thinking? DO NOT BUY THIS BOOK. I didn't even keep mine a week before I donated it to my local library, and guess what? THEY didn't even want it! I REPEAT, DO NOT BUY THIS BOOK. You'll thank me later. I wouldn't have even given it one star if Amazon had let me.
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Summary: What do you do?
Review: ... when the world is dying and nothing can save it? When the people you knew are so angry at being dead that they hate you, and the people you loved will rip you apart because even being a walking corpse is better than being in hell? You just try to stay alive as long as you can... and you hope for a miracle.
This book seriously creeped me out, and in my (agnostic) opinion, was strengthened by its theology. In an atheistic universe, the very worst the bad guys can do to you is torture you to death. If you're going to hell, being tortured to death is just the gentle beginning.
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Summary: Decent, but not Great
Review: This book is OKAY, but definitely not a great read. Lots of misspellings and grammatical errors, and the author's own pentecostal religious outloook (which is strange, because all the main characters in the book are Catholic), make it feel as if you're reading the Turner Diaries as envisioned by George Romero. There are still some good scares provided, just don't expect this to be a well-written book.
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