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Summary: How in God's name did this guy get published?
Review: This book is unreadable. Yes, I read the reviews, and I still wanted to take a chance on it because, hey, what the hell, it's zombies, and how badly can you f@*& up a story about zombies, right? I will agree with several of the other reviewers and say that he does present some good ideas, but, man oh man does he need an editor. I really would love to finish this book, and if the author ever considers having it professionally edited and re-released, I just might give it a try. In the meantime, I'll stick with Mark Hunter's The Dead, The Books of All Flesh series, and Skipp & Spectors Books of the Dead series. Sorry, Darrin, I really do share your passion, but you need to stop smoking that crap before you sit down in front of your word processor.
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Summary: Stunningly Bad
Review: This is not the worst book I've ever read, mainly because I don't really want to acknowledge that I've read it. I've never encountered such a waste of paper, ink, and time. The story itself is horribly derivative without a single claim to originality. No zombie book can claim to be completely original if its inspired by George Romero's work, but the author steals so many specific details from films and computer games that one wonders how working on this book satisfied any form of creative impulse for him. The first zombies are from a remote island (Just like Fulci's "Zombie"). An accident releases the zombies (just like "Resident Evil"). The Zombies need to eat human brains to ease the pain of death, and the ending involves the government dropping a nuclear weapon to stop the zombies (lifted directly from "Return of the Living Dead). The characters are all perverts or twisted in some way, which instead of adding spice only makes you roll your eyes since it happens again and again. This book itself is a visual assault since most of the characters spend their time in the book SHOUTING. YOU KNOW THEY'RE SHOUTING BECAUSE WHEN THEY DO THE AUTHOR WRITES WHOLE PARAGPRAHS IN CAPS!The worst and most embarrassing part about this book is the spelling and grammar. There are so many errors and so many typos that one is forced to wonder if even the author read his own work. The grammar and typos are so extreme that the book verges on public humiliation. On more than one occasion he writes the word 'we' instead of 'he', forgets verbs, forgets his subject verb agreement, and consistantly uses the word Revered instead of Reverend (which actually might have been a play on words, but the sarcasm is lost in the midst of the thousands of other mistakes which accompany it). Actually, my favorite part of the book is the ending when the U.S. Government decides to drop an 'Adam Bomb', not an Atom Bomb on the zombies. A real disaster of a book. If you want zombie literature, read Bernhart's "Reign of the Dead", or better yet Craig and Spector's "Still Dead".
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Summary: I WANT MY MONEY BACK
Review: This is perhaps one of the worst books I've ever read. From bad phrasing to over the top descriptions it was tedious. I couldn't even finish it, I made it to chapter four and gave up. Mr. Patterson, good luck in the future. You're gonna need it.
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Summary: At last ZOMBIES!!!!!!!!
Review: This story will take you in to a horror filled world ,Mr Patterson has tapped in to the nightmares that lie just under the surface of everyone.A must read for Zombie fans everywere!
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Summary: boring
Review: To expensive,boring,poorly written. Not what i expected form a man who compares himself to King.
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