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Summary: Amazing!
Review: I thought this book was amazing! That might be one of the best ways to describ it. The way Simon Clark uses a complete description to write this book captivated me from the very first page. It took me two days to read this book and usually I'm so busy it takes me at least a week to finish a book, but from the moment I opened that book I was hooked. Blood Crazy has to be one of the best, if not the best book I have ever read. I will be looking for all of Simon Clark's books as well as reading them.
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Summary: Another end of the world as we know it horror novel
Review: Leisure has done it again: found another diamond in the rough writer, this time a writer from England in Simon Clark. Most of Clark's novels released through Leisure wre written in the mid 90's and this is easily his "worst" of the five. The only novels I haven't read are Vampyhric and Darker, both of which look awesome!
The plot centers around parents going crazy over night and out for the blood of their offspring. Think of an English Night of the Living Dead; just a horrible premise, but Clark turns it into a "decent" novel, which for him is subpar. This guy is the next Clive Barker of England. Actually, the plot is a little deeper than I mentioned, but it is pretty Jungian (he was a thinker like Freud). The novel is good, but not Clark's best. Clark is so talented he was able to save this from being trash, but not his best. Clark's writing is clear, crisp, and chilling. He writes with the power to thrill and chill, to shock and rock, to frighten and make your stomach tighten. He is a wordsmith of the highest order and he is one of the new king's of horror. Like I said, Leisure has found another great young voice in the horror field.
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Summary: The Best Gosh Darn Human Annililation Book I Have Ever Read!
Review: Nick Aten returns home from a sleepover at his friends house to discover his younger brother, John, has been brutially murdered in their home. Thinking it was the town bully, Tug Slatter, trying to get back at him for years of hate toward one another, he sets out to find the truth. He soon realizes the terrible truth, all over town small children and teenagers are dead, ripped into horrible peices, not a one of the dead appeared to be over 19. Who could be killing these kids? Terriosts? A crazed lunitic? To Nicks surprize he finds the answer lies a little closer to home. If you like blood, guts and gore this book is for you.
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Summary: My fave Clark novel
Review: Simon Clark hit his stride with this end of the world apocalyptic novel that sets the sub-genre on its ear. One morning teenagers awaken to discover that all adults have turned into zombie-like creatures that want to destroy them. The entire world is flipped upside down as immature teens must suddenly take responsibility for their own lives and those of their friends in order to save "humanity." Mr. Clark brings a literate sensibility to all he does, and he's never finer than in this novel. It's violent, emotionally affecting, and the plot twists and turns enough to keep any reader squirming in his seat. If you haven't read it, do yourself the favor and find it immediately. You won't be sorry you did.
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Summary: Great Book! A real page turner!
Review: Simon Clark writes a tale that could be loosely described as an apocalyptic zombie generation gap philosophical thriller.
That's a lot of genres for one book!
The book itself is written in first person from the protagonist's perspective. The protagonist is a teenaged boy whose name is Nick Aten ("rhymes with Satan"). One day he suddenly finds that all of the adults 20 and older have gone crazy and are killing people 19 and younger. Specifically, parents are killing their own children. Nick meets up with Sarah and her two younger sisters and they try to survive in this new and terrifying world.
The action in the book is fantastic. I couldn't put it down. The explanation for why the adults have gone mad is a bit hackneyed but it fits within the context and action of the book. Religion is basically treated as the "opiate of the masses" but that makes sense when reviewing what happens to the protagonists and the overall goals of the protagonists. Hey, if I woke up in a world where all of the adults were trying to kill me, I would probably give up religion too.
The overall message of the book seems to be that the older generation is naturally at odds with the younger generation. The older generation has all of the money and power, therefore they are the more voracious consumers. The younger generation consumes at the behest of the older. Is the older generation killing the younger generation by consuming too many non-renewable resources, by damaging the environment, and by running up bills the younger generation cannot possibly pay? This book, IMHO, taks that sort of idea and makes it direct killing instead of indirect killing. I find it kind of ironic that the protagonist spends a significant amount of time driving around in an SUV he took from an abandoned suburban home.
As far as weaknesses in the book I felt there were a few. The explanation as to why the adults have gone mad seems kind of wrong. It's a scientific biological explanation that, IMHO, betrays a lack of knowledge about the scientific principle behind it. However, if you're not a biology major, it probably won't matter.
If I read this book when I was 16-18 years old, I would have thought it was awesome!
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Summary: Not a YA novel, as marketed.
Review: Simon Clark, Blood Crazy (Leisure, 1995) How this book gets characterized as a young adult novel is completely beyond me. Hey, folks: just because a novel's protagonist is under twenty-one years of age does not make a novel aimed at the young adult market. Nick Aten ("rhymes with Satan") goes to bed one night convinced that all is right with the world. He wakes up the next morning and finds out how terribly wrong he is; something has caused all of the world's adults to go crazy and start killing their children. Those who have no children just go after everyone under a certain age (undetermined at the beginning of the book). Needless to say, the children are not altogether happy with this. Nick escapes and heads out of town, banding together with various other survivors against millions of people whose whole goal is their destruction. In other words, it's your basic post-apocalyptic novel. And from that perspective, it's a good enough read. It's hard to review this objectively, since I had it marketed to me as a young adult novel; it reads like an adult novel, and so I'm concerned my ideas about it are going to cross one line or the other, since the two are often entirely different animals. Thankfully, it's a decent book as both, though a little on the adult side for being a YA read. Simon Clark has a good sense of the dramatic, and the book is paced and plotted well. Granted, postapocalyptic lit is fast becoming its own subgenre, and it's not too hard to plot these days (a reading of The Stand, a reading of Swan Song, and a screening of The Omega Man, and you're pretty much set; elements of all three show up here, of course). His characters are for the most part solid and well-built, with a few cardboard-esque exceptions. The main reason, I'm guessing, this was thought to be a YA novel is the Nick Aten's narrative voice, which is naïve; too much so at times. (One wonders why that's still considered a YA trait, given the popularity of the romance genre.) Readable, fast-paced, and worthwhile for horror fans. *** ½
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Summary: What makes a good end of the world thriller?
Review: Take Night of the Living Dead (both original and remake), Dawn of the Dead, and Day of the Dead and blend completely with Mad Max, The Road Warrior, and Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome. Sprinkle with The Birds (both short story and film versions) and The Day of the Triffids (novel and film versions as well). Serve well chilled for maximum effect. None of the above comparison are meant to cast a poor light upon Simon Clark's fine novel, far from it. They are just made to communicate the truly epic scope of the story the novel tells. Blood Crazy is a completely realized, and original, vision of the end of the world that is as terrifying as it is impossible to put down. It will leave you breathless, optimistic, and pondering our own future. In fact the book reads as if it were the opening chapter in a trilogy of its own. Highly recommended.
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Summary: Psychotic Hemoglobin!
Review: The world's adults go nuts and start killing their own kids and anyone under 19, which ends with a hokey, new aged, feel bad explanation for human existence and destruction. The "shocking" answers, were more irritating than anything else. And I was constantly distracted by the main character's ability to mesmerize and score with every girl who crossed his path. Not recommended for anyone over 30!
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Summary: A pretty good book
Review: This book starts out running. In the first chapter, all of the adults have gone mad and have murded most of the children in the town. The main character (Nick Aten) tells the story from his point of view. How he escaped from his parents, meets up with a girl named Sarah and her 2 sisters named Anne and Vicky. Afterward they come upon a community of kids trying to put some order back into the world. Everything about the book was great except for the explination of why all of the parents turned into Jeffery Dahmers. There are whole pages of dealing with the works of Jung and Freud in an effort to explain to the reader why something that hideous could happen. It makes you wish the explination had been something a little more exciting like radiation or aliens from another planet. All in all, I'd take a good Clive Barker novel over this book anyday.
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Summary: One of my all time favorites...great to read more than once!
Review: This is a great book. It grabs your attention right away and brings in philosophy towards the end. There are many facets to its story that make it an excellent book.
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