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Summary: Book Review
Review: John Saul's book Sleepwalker is a fast paced thriller.
Judith Sheffield, a burned-out teacher from Los Angeles, moves back to New Mexico to stay with her Aunt Rita. After landing a job in the local school, Judith tries to befriend troubled Jed Arnold. His Native American mother committed suicide, believing she could never live in the white man's world since she married a white man. Jed also feels an outsider, since he is half white and half Native American. Greg Moreland is the maniacal doctor who subjects the citizens of his town to a nightmarish mind controlling experiment that will eventually be nationwide. The purpose of this experiment is to reduce the contention of workers. Dr. Moreland injects the students and townspeople with minuscule transmitters that travel through the bloodstream and imbed in the brain, allowing the radio transmissions from a certain frequency to control the citizens. Jed and his dad, along with Judith Sheffield, talk with Jed's Native American grandpa about the strange happenings. Jed's grandpa had a vision about the dam exploding and Eagle coming back to his native area. Soon Judith discovers the mind altering injections being given and decides to involve a scientist friend., who discovers the transmitters injected into the town people. With the help of Jed and his grandfather, Judith destroys the main transmitter responsible for controlling the people and her students where she lives.
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Summary: Slow-Moving Thriller
Review: Once a quiet New Mexico town, Borrego has become a prime target for a local madman, Greg Moreland, and his associate, Paul Kendall. They intend to run a massive experiment on some of the town's troublemakers--Reba Tucker (a high school teacher), Heather Fredericks (a high school student), and Frank Arnold (a refinery worker), just to name a few. Their goal is to "realign the minds of the nation's youth" by injecting them with pseudo-flu shots that contain mind-controlling transformers. And it's up to three people (Jed Arnold, Judith Sheffield, and Peter Langston) to stop them before they infect the whole town. Although the synopsis on the back of this book pinpoints teenagers as the main victims, there a lot of adults who also receive the shots, primarily ones who work at Borrego Oil and are seen as future problems. So, if you're expecting a teen-oriented book, this is not what you're looking for. "Sleepwalk" kind of reminded me of Dean Koontz's "Midnight" in the sense they both took me several months to read, and their plots and book covers resemble each other--a sociopath tries to change the world by experimenting on a small town, and there's a silhouette of a bird on both covers. In my opinion, neither book is worth reading again, even though I'm fans of both Saul and Koontz. This book is excruciatingly slow for about 300 of the 449 pages. The ending does improve, but it's not worth wading through all those pages to get to it. So, unless you're already a fan, I'd skip this one. It's not one of Saul's best.
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Summary: A very suspenceful and well writen book
Review: This book was the best I have ever read. It is about a person who hates teenagers. He hates them so much he wants to kill them. All of them. Just when you think you know whats going to happen everthing changes. Jon Saul is the best horror/suspense writer yet I think. He really keeps you turing pages
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Summary: John Saul rocks
Review: This is the second John Saul book I read the first was the Right Hand of Evil. This book was very interesting and not at all what I was expecting when I read the title of this book. Very good read I highly recommend it.
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Summary: John Saul rocks
Review: This is the second John Saul book I read the first was the Right Hand of Evil. This book was very interesting and not at all what I was expecting when I read the title of this book. Very good read I highly recommend it.
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Summary: Slow take off
Review: To me it took me almost half way through before things really started picking up. it was real slow to me at first,but after that it was great!
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Summary: Excellent novel
Review: To say that this is a horror novel would be inaccurate because it is in many ways a mystery novel. More precisely put, this novel is a combination of both mystery and horror, mixed with a little mysticism, romance, and some social commentary. Nevetheless, just because the novel doesn't fit exactly into any of the established genre doesn't make it bad. In fact, this is a an excellent story that will keep you away from doing anything else but finishing this story. It certainly did for me. The novel does go into certain length to introduce the characters and set up the background, which tend to leave the reader hanging. But once the story pick up, you'll love it. Just have the patience to read the first several chapters, and everything will fall into place afterward.
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Summary: Excellent novel
Review: To say that this is a horror novel would be inaccurate because it is in many ways a mystery novel. More precisely put, this novel is a combination of both mystery and horror, mixed with a little mysticism, romance, and some social commentary. Nevetheless, just because the novel doesn't fit exactly into any of the established genre doesn't make it bad. In fact, this is a an excellent story that will keep you away from doing anything else but finishing this story. It certainly did for me. The novel does go into certain length to introduce the characters and set up the background, which tend to leave the reader hanging. But once the story pick up, you'll love it. Just have the patience to read the first several chapters, and everything will fall into place afterward.
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