Necroscope 4: Deadspeak

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Summary: DULL, TIRED & A CHORE TO READ
Review: Before this novel, the Necroscope books were billed as a trilogy, well, Brian Lumley should have stuck with that plan. BL goes to the well again with book four.

This time, Harry Keogh has lost his ability to use the Mobius continuum. Faethor Ferenczy's other son, Janos has arisen to give Harry grief. It's the same Wamphyri story all over again. It even reads as though Lumley is tired of the formula.

With so much going for the series, its difficult to understand why BL doesn't break new ground with Keogh and the E-Branch. There are so many directions he could go that have nothing to do with vampires. With everything Ferenczy, the series has become too incestuous to continue reading.

Can't recommend this one. This is the low point in the series.

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Summary: A must have for any Lumley fan...
Review: Brian does it again in this great book. It's amazing how he can keep coming with new twists and turns throughout a collection. Keep the lights on when you read this one or you may find your self in the least likely of places....

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Summary: Great book
Review: Brian Lumley is the master of horror novels. This book is by far one of the best science fiction novels I've read in many years. If you get any sci-fi book, get Necroscope IV (or any of the books in the Necroscope series)

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Summary: HE'S DONE IT AGAIN!
Review: Brian Lumley NEVER disapoints. Without fail another winner. You can not pass this by, you will miss crucial battles and important information for understanding those still to come. I can only hope there will be 3000 sequals to this one

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Summary: GREAT!
Review: FABULOUS SERIES CONTINUES WITH THIS INSTALLMENT.LUMLEY'S NECROSCOPE SERIES IS ONE OF THE BEST OF ALL TIME VAMPIRE SERIES.LOTS OF ACTION,HORROR AND GREAT CHARACTER DEVELOPMENT MAKE THIS ONE OF MY FAVES.I WOULD JUST LOVE TO SEE THIS PUT ON THE SCREEN WITHOUT SOMEONE MESSING IT UP.

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Summary: "The Case Of Charles Dexter Ward"
Review: Great story. Hum....come to think of it, I've read this somewhere else before? Oh yeah, it's the exact same premise as H.P. Lovecraft's "The Case Of Charles Dexter Ward" from 1941. If Lovecraft was still around he might even hire a copyright lawyer for this one. I strongly recommend anyone who has read this book to seek out Lovecraft's story; I even "more" strongly recommend reading Lovecraft first.
Anyway, despite the fact Lumley converted Lovecraft's tale into one of his "Necroscope" novels, I'll forgive him for the unoriginal idea, because this maybe one of the best books of the series. The read is easy and very fast paced. Character development as always is excellent. There is "plenty o' mean & evil" throughout.
Definitely read the Lovecraft story though....

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Summary: "The Case Of Charles Dexter Ward"
Review: Great story. Hum....come to think of it, I've read this somewhere else before? Oh yeah, it's the exact same premise as H.P. Lovecraft's "The Case Of Charles Dexter Ward" from 1941. If Lovecraft was still around he might even hire a copyright lawyer for this one. I strongly recommend anyone who has read this book to seek out Lovecraft's story; I even "more" strongly recommend reading Lovecraft first.
Anyway, despite the fact Lumley converted Lovecraft's tale into one of his "Necroscope" novels, I'll forgive him for the unoriginal idea, because this maybe one of the best books of the series. The read is easy and very fast paced. Character development as always is excellent. There is "plenty o' mean & evil" throughout.
Definitely read the Lovecraft story though....

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Summary: FORTHCOMING: A U.S. HARDCOVER FOR NECROSCOPE 4
Review: HARRY KEOGH, BURIED AT LAST IN NECROSCOPE-13, and at last a hardcover for NECROSCOPE-4. Skip an epitaph for the NECROSCOPE? A review of the entire series? I despair. But what fun it would be, to measure the attainment and valiant imagination of Lumley's mindwarping 6,500 pages of DEADSPEAK (13 doorstoppers nearing 500 pages each, double the length of IN SEARCH OF LOST TIME--and chipped out of a single block of electronic marble, Lumley's brain, in only eleven years!), an Ozymandian fantasy of towering heights that will lie on the lone and level sands of oblivion as an unwitting but cautionary megaloid obelisk for future fantasists set on shaping on paper their own features out of eternal darkness: Look, ye mighty electron wielders, upon my mighty metamorphic crossdimensional vampire epic and scotch all hope that you can build such gigasparks of visionary brainwash out of glowing dreamspeak! How droll the darkness already lapping at Lumley's creation, with the last trade paperback edition reprinted in perdurable hardcover, all thirteen blocks now to sit on shelves unread by future generations of Bloodfans as they move into the forthcoming novelties of compunov on screenread that will leave Necroscope flickering in the nether regions adjoining Sax Rohmer's once widely read British series The Insidious Dr. Fu Manchu last seen glimmering under black waters off the Limehouse docks.

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Summary: A must-read, but not because it is particularly good
Review: I am a devoted reader of Brian Lumley's works, but I found this book to be difficult to read. The plot is fairly obvious from the start and fails to develop very much until very close to the end, when it picks up the pace and more closely resembles some of Lumley's other books in terms of horror and suspense. I found myself forcing myself to read it, as if it were a chore, simply because I found all the Necroscope books before it to be fantastic and wanted to move on to the next volume in the Necroscope series. Of all the Necroscope books written to date, I found this one to be the weakest link in the series. Despite its slow plot developments, however, I recommend reading this book, if only to better understand the underlying plot of Deadspawn, which is a fantastic book. If you find this work to be a bit of a disappointment, you are not alone, but you'll be glad you read it once you begin the book that follows.

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Summary: great!! Get this book!
Review: I thought this book was very good...Every story Lumley has, brings you in and keeps you in his world of the Vamphyri... The story moves slow at times, but the action that comes keeps you reading long into the night!!!!