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Summary: A review from Mr. Entertainment Lover
Review: A family moves into a perfect town, to find out it isn't so perfect. It's a place where scientists try expirements on kids to make them stronger foot-ball players. The book is as dumb as it sounds.
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Summary: pretty good book
Review: a little slow at first but once I got to the middle of the book it started to get really suspensful. I liked the way they made the main character go from a dork to a really mean guy.
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Summary: Printed equivalent of a cheesy horror flick.
Review: After reading three of this man's books, I come to one conclusion: If Dean Koontz is the poor man's Stephen King, John Saul is the absolute pauper's Dean Koontz. He specializes in ham-fisted emotional manipulation; all three books I read were about children in peril. We're supposed to feel afraid for them simply because they're children -- I was just annoyed at being asked to empathize with 2-dimensional characters.If you get about halfway through this tale of biological manipulation, you'll know how it's going to end. You might miscalculate by underestimating just how hollow and mean-spirited Saul's writing is, but you'll have the basic idea. Better yet, just read the back cover and extrapolate the plot. Since there are no surprises, you'll be close enough to spare you reading the book.
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Summary: left me cold
Review: As with some of the others who reviewed this book, i really liked it for the first 100 pages or so. Then it just sort of quit. The dialogue was boring, the characters were wooden and unbelievable, the ending just plain sucked. And i'm a fan of Saul! I also agree that at times it felt like a young adult mystery, nothing very challenging to think about. I finished it just because it was so light, and i feel that i should always finish a book after i've started. I kept waiting for something rational to happen, i mean a town with only health food and citizens who are ALL football fans, come on now! Plus the parents seem oblivious to the fact that their children are becoming mindless aggressive apes. In the end i didn't even really care about what happened, but then again that's just my humble opinion.
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Summary: It Sucked!!!
Review: Creature is an utter waste of time, it is boring, repetitive and really predictable.It's also mean and a little perverted.Stupid!
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Summary: One of Sauls best
Review: Having read hellfire, Nathanel and The Homing i found Creature to be my favorite one of his books yet. I'm not a huge Saul fan simply beacause most of the charecters seem the same in each book and they are always in a small remote town but i found i had finished this book within a couple of days. Good read :)
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Summary: Okay book....
Review: Having this being my first John Saul book (I haven't been able to read another), the detail and twists which were in the plot were very good but Creature did not have a big enough vocabulary to satisfy me; he repeated many words and I would suggest to him to at least use a thesaurus. It was a bit predictable but a good book to read if you have nothing better to do....
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Summary: not one of Saul's better works
Review: I am a fan of John Saul but I found Creature to be very predictable and unfortunatly boring. There was none of the trademark suspense and hair raising terror that are normally in his books. Unless you are a diehard Saul fan, I would advice not wasting your time with this book.
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Summary: As disappointing as the Homing ...
Review: I don't know, maybe I've been spoiled by the actual "wrap-up" endings usually executed by other renounders like King and Koontz, or maybe I just expect too much, but I prefer a book with a more defined closure, and maybe a more upbeat denoument, thank you very much! I hated it! I kept hoping the bad guys would pay, or that the heroes would even get minimal compensation, but all the good guys suffered exhorably until the end. The end? Yeah right! Like the Homing (Saul's other kill-the-good-guys compilation), this book leaves you wondering what happened to the other pages. Surely this could not be the whole book, what with the protagonist suffering and dead people hanging on electric fences and no cops or state officials even slightly aware of anything, or curious! I'm sorry, but people like the ones in this book, I'm sure, could never exist undiscovered in a town cluster like Silverdale, Colorado! So, the real question: Why did I give the book so many stars (2)? I kept reading to see what brilliant plan would nicely wrap up the immorals of the villains, and if SOMEONE would do SOMETHING that any normal person would do, but ... So it had a story line for most of the book, but it went nowhere! There are better books than this; check any bookstore anywhere!
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Summary: excellent
Review: i don't think that just anyone could enjoy a book by john saul. it takes someone pretty emotional, with a good imagination. i guess i'm one of them cuz this is one of the best stories i've ever read.
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