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Summary: A GREAT EPIC STORY!!
Review: Loved, loved, loved this book! A great epic story that kept me up til the wee hours of each and every morning! I loved the entire cast of characters - the author did an amazing job of showing us how each character transformed and grew (for good or for bad!!). I loved the fantastical elements, as well as the sometimes intense, harrowing images and violence that was sprayed throughout the story. Overall, a great fantasy/horror/suspense epic novel that i would recommend to any book lover.
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Summary: A Fantastic Discovery
Review: This was the first McCammon book I read after receiving a recommendation from the kind staff at The Book Inn on Charing Cross Road - when it still existed. It's sorely missed. But I loved the book and as a result went on to discover what this man's imagination had to offer in all his other books. Brilliant. Whenever I'm in a book shop I'll always check whether there's anything I've missed by this wonderful author. Buy it. Read it.
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Summary: Do yourself a favor and read this book!
Review: This book changed my life. I read it in two days. Up to then, I had never read anything so inspriational as well as entertaining. It kept me going when I wanted to end everything. Read it. You'll thank yourself.
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Summary: Everyone Deserves A Break Once in Awhile
Review: I've always been entertained by McCammon's books. That's all that I expect from them . Do not look for neatly-plotted, logically planned fiction from this author. This is escapist fiction at its least pretentious. Some people read true crime books, others read Lawyer novels and some of us are addicted to Daniel Steele or Belva Plain. McCammon is my dirty little secret. I just like him and think he is more entertaining than John Saul or V.C. Andrews, but not in the same league with Straub or King. If you require a breather from "serious" literature, you might want to give this author a try.
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Summary: You have 2 ways to read it.
Review: You have 2 ways of reading Swan Song. You either consider the whole thing as a collection of around 100 Marvel comics episodes, bound together, and enjoy it thoroughly, or you try to read it as a book where it miserably fails, maimed by its lack of consistency, the numerous Dei ex machina, the cliches and the protagonists' actions clearly serving the sub-plot of the moment. Let's take a few random examples.1. A shy 13-year old boy, with a profound interest in literature (an A in T.S. Elliot's Wasteland!), forgets the existence of his own parents during a crisis situation, in order to follow a complete stranger. Now, has he gone insane? Not really, since his wise remarks help him and Macklin get out of Earth House. 2. A girl with the gift of bringing life back to plants has not thought of using her special ability for 7 long years. We know the charisma is there, since grass rooted in the cement of Pawpaw's basement AFTER the blast. Is she dumb or something? 3. Sister, Thornson and co. are ready to become wolves' lunch. As almost everywhere in the book, there is a "divine" intervention by... the Authorities! Red Cross and army personnel have turned the Homewood High School into a fully operating hospital. Now, 7 years later, it turns out that the Authorities never managed to organize things further, whilst Mad Max type of gangs are roaming the country having started from zero! 4. The President of the US has survived an air crash and has been living alone for 7 years in a military basis. No reason is ever given why a basis that should be swarming with people (since it endured the blast) is empty. 5. A villain wanders around with no particular aim. What if he had not met Sister and the glass ring in NY? What would his purpose in life be? For 7 years, he has done nothing except trying to follow Sister. Friend has been inserted in the book only for the reason of having a supernatural villain. Take him out, and the action can go on undisturbed. I could go on with many more similar examples. However, if you decide to ignore all these, you are left with a story that has vivid imagery and suspense. McCammon does have the ability to make you "see" things happening in front of your eyes. Josh's 5 minutes at the K-Mart, Macklin's abutation, Swan's transformation, the word "Amen" typed 2 seconds before obliteration, and quite a few other incidents, finally save the book from being 956 pulp pages.
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Summary: One of my all-time favorite fiction books
Review: As a voracious reader of fiction and non-fiction (which these days are grad school texts) Swan Song is probably one of the best books I've ever read. The only other book that I like as well is Stephen King's The Stand...both look at simular events and create wildly different stories. I reread this book at least every two years. McCammon's ability to create multi-facided characters and vivid fast paced detail is exceptional...His other novels are just as creative...but Swan's Song is the type of book that you stay up all night (or several nights) to finish. Then you want to read it again!
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Summary: A Standout Epic
Review: As has been written, there have been many comparisons of this book to Stephen King's The Stand. While I agree that the similarities are there, Swan Song plays out a much more defined battle between good and evil. In some ways, it reads much like a fantasy novel with magic, monsters and heroism that distinguishes this book from the Stand. The characters are compelling and in some cases, heartbreaking. This is a book any horror or fantasy fan would find very fulfilling!
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Summary: this book will blow you away
Review: the greatest horror novel ever written
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Summary: Creepy but not as realistic in today's world
Review: I admit that the first time I read this book was when I was in high school. It freaked me out back then, but those were the days when people still worried about the threat of nuclear war. Now there seems to be less of a threat, but this book is still a scary read and in my opinion his best book, followed closely by Boy's Life.
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Summary: Movie in your head
Review: If you have ever read a book and wanted to actually visualize the scenes taking place on your mind's movie screen - then read anything by Mr. McCammon. This is an exceptonal book. I've read it twice and it got better the second time around. I'm beginning to read it again... The Character struggles, the dialogue and the passages of descipton are to be savored.
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