Them (Zebra Books)

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Summary: THE BEST BOOK I'VE READ TO DATE.
Review: IT IS ONE OF THOSE BOOKS YOU JUST CAN'T SEEM TO PUT DOWN

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Summary: Bad story, good messege
Review: OK, the plot is a little silly. It concerns a race of super intellegent alien brains (who's leader is named Cag) who came down from where ever it is from (many galaxies away, at any rate) and befriends a troubled young genius. Cag's plan is to take over the Earth and make it suitable for others of his race to inhabit. Yes, it sounds like a bad 1950s B sci-fi movie, and that is how it starts. But there is a lot more going on in the background that dose hit pretty close to home. First and foremost, there is Jake Silver. He is the boy whom Cag finds. Jake is increadibly smart, he tested somewhere around 180 IQ. But the town resented his intellegence and so abused him physically (by his Dad) and mentally (other kids tease him relentlessly). Eventually he brakes under the strain and goes completely insane. Even if Cag had not arrived and made him more powerful by giving Jake psychogenesis, I think Jake would have eventually grown up to be extreamly dangourous; kind of a Jeffery Dahmer in the making. There is also a sharp comment on how society favors sports and athletic endeavers over acedimic acheivements. Johnstone shows how that is wrong, or at least unfairly unbalenced. How much money does an NFL superstar make as opposed to a scientist trying to find a cure for cancer? Even if the main story is a little rediculous, the backing theme is worth thinking about while reading this book.

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Summary: This book is a must have for any avid horror/Johnstone fan!!
Review: Them is classic Johnstone! It is very easy reading and once you start it is hard to put down. It has all the monsters(both human and nonhuman), sex and violence that one comes to expect in Johnstone's tales of horror.