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Summary: Great Horror By A Master of Sci-Fi
Review: This is the only Hubbard word I have ever read, and most likely the only one I'll ever read; but this is not because this book fell short of excellent! This is a wonderful forray out of his standard genre, sci-fi, and into horror. I read this after reading numerous recommendations of it as a classic by the likes of Stephen King and Robert Weinberg, and was not dissapointed I did. This is a classic that I found disturbing and un-put-downable for the first few chapters, and highlly satisfying by the end. Quite a premise: a man loses 3 hours of his life. There are hints that suggest he did something unthinkable during this time frame, so he must now search for what happened during this timeframe. His search takes him on a very memorable journey and what he finds is truly horrifying. This is not a particularly long book--it is said he wrote it on a train-ride from California to New York--but it is very much worth reading.
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Summary: Trippy, but scary?
Review: This supposed horror book isn't a horror book. It's more like a description of an acid trip than anything else. A university professor, recovering from malaria, is fired for a controversial paper deriding idols and artifacts of certain gods. Apparently, this angers some spirits, and after seemingly losing a few hours of his life and his hat, he descends (literally) into a world of weird characters and doors and life forces involving his wife and best friend.It's hard not to give away the plot, because the plot is only revealed in the end. It's basically a few huge extremely strange events in one book. Even though the imagery is very good for this short, Hubbard's language is a little terse and antiquated to make it a quick read. Though overall pretty interesting, I would not recommend this, as I wouldn't know what to classify it as.
Rating:
Summary: Trippy, but scary?
Review: This supposed horror book isn't a horror book. It's more like a description of an acid trip than anything else. A university professor, recovering from malaria, is fired for a controversial paper deriding idols and artifacts of certain gods. Apparently, this angers some spirits, and after seemingly losing a few hours of his life and his hat, he descends (literally) into a world of weird characters and doors and life forces involving his wife and best friend. It's hard not to give away the plot, because the plot is only revealed in the end. It's basically a few huge extremely strange events in one book. Even though the imagery is very good for this short, Hubbard's language is a little terse and antiquated to make it a quick read. Though overall pretty interesting, I would not recommend this, as I wouldn't know what to classify it as.
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