Rating: Summary: SLEEPER Review Review: Do yourself a favor. Read this book. If you get started you won't put it down. The characters are intelligent and believable. Science fiction isn't my favorite genre...or so I thought. The author has an ability to make the reader feel like a member of an exclusive team. At the same time, I was fascinated with the setting, another subject in which I previously had no interest. Excellent book!
Rating: Summary: Food for Thought Review: For those of us who look in our thrillers for believability sprinkled with a bit of fantasy instead of vice versa, Harriman's story is a gold mine.
Rating: Summary: Amphibi-man stalks Pentagon Review: Good details of Pentagon history, but just not enough real story to sustain any real action or suspense. Interesting backfround used to make the "monster" believable, but there was no real tension. There was obviously a good deal of research done for this book. While not a page-turner, it was a very interesting book if you like WWII, history, monsters or combinations thereof. It was a good read, but nothing to write home about.
Rating: Summary: The Relic meets Jaws... Review: I just finished SLEEPER in one breathless sitting. Great heroes, a terrific monster, and an amazing setting (The Pentagon) all combine to make this book a rollercoaster that compares with the best of Peter Benchley and Preston and Child.If you like your thrillers high-concept and adrenalin charged, this book was written for you.
Rating: Summary: A Sleeping Hit! Review: I liked this book and it's concept. It was never boring, but however, I found that it could have been better.
Solid story, great characterization, but the monster's description was hazy.
I really wanted more in terms of scene setting, character's descriptions, but it kinda lacked that. But the story itself still steamed ahead, never really slowing down to bore me.
And that's saying something! Yeah, I've read better. And I've read far worse. This one is worth picking up.
Rating: Summary: Not too shabby Review: I picked this title up with the thought of just using it kill time between wanted book shipments. I was pleasantly surprised to find it exciting and interesting. I found myself rooting for certain characters and hoping for an early demise for others. The book links events that happen toward the end of WWII and rear thier ugly heads in the present time. There is not really much in the way of suspense here but I enjoyed it just the same. This has good character development and I enjoyed the style of prose very much (some funny discriptions in here still have me laughing). While the plot stumbles along at some points I don't think you'll be disapointed if you go in with an open mind like I did. I wasn't looking for Willam Peter Blatty and I didn't find him. I was looking for a fun exciting read and was very pleased to have found it.
Rating: Summary: A Killer Thriller Review: I picked up this book at 9pm thinking I'd read a chapter or two before bed. Didn't happen. I stayed up all night reading it. SLEEPER is the perfect book for people who like a monster/horror story that scares you silly but makes you think. If you liked (Preston and Childs') RELIC you'll love SLEEPER. But in my opinion it does a much better job and is a much tighter read than RELIC. Furthermore, the climax and ending do not cheat the reader. This tells in gory detail exactly what would happen if a supernatural monster was let loose in the Pentagon - without any cheap tricks. Even more eerie is the fact that this supernatural monster is less fantasy than most people would want to believe: SLEEPER is a good yarn, but it makes a chilling statement about battling an enemy that trains its soldiers to be monsters. Fans of Aliens, Rosemary's Baby and Thomas Harris' thrillers will not be disappointed.
Rating: Summary: Definitely Going ofr another Harriman Review: i ran out of books for Koontz ,Laymon,Saul,Hutson and some of the good King so i am trying other writers..and iam definitely going to buy another book for Harriman since Sleeper was such a good enjoyable page-turner book.
Rating: Summary: Is this book great? Uhhh.......NO! Review: I really do not understand the hoopla that this book has gotten. It's formulaic, the characters are nothing more than cardboard copies of the same characters (beautiful single scientist, Rambo wannabe, man who has GHOSTS IN THE PAST to deal with) that you'd find in most books and movies similar to this. As a matter of fact, the plot and characters rip off a book called Hunter by James Byron Huggins a bit TOO MUCH for my liking. Anyway, if you want a predictable read with chintzy writing and an unbelievably hokey ending, pick this up. For the 95 percent of you that want to read something worth your time, give this a pass. Not recommended.
Rating: Summary: MORE! MORE! MORE! Review: I think the title of my review says it all - Fantastic!
|