Rating: 
Summary: Nothing too earth shattering but still fun reading
Review: A very well written book. The characters were believable. Spidey has his hands full with Carnage. Carnage is actually a super-villain in many respects. All he cares about is chaos. He kills without a thought. Not your normal villain looking for riches or world domination. Being a serial murderer makes the character a bit edgier. More of a challenge for Spider-Man in my opinion. The ending is a little soft. The question begs asking though, "why didn't Spidey take care of the serum himself?"
Rating:
Summary: Nothing too earth shattering but still fun reading
Review: A very well written book. The characters were believable. Spidey has his hands full with Carnage. Carnage is actually a super-villain in many respects. All he cares about is chaos. He kills without a thought. Not your normal villain looking for riches or world domination. Being a serial murderer makes the character a bit edgier. More of a challenge for Spider-Man in my opinion. The ending is a little soft. The question begs asking though, "why didn't Spidey take care of the serum himself?"
Rating: 
Summary: This book is thrilling and exciting.
Review: All spidey fans will enjoy this, I prefer you read "The Venom Factor" then you read this. This was also one of my favorite book of all time.
Rating: 
Summary: Mildly entertaining, but not as good as other novels
Review: Although I spent most of my ten-plus years in comic collecting immersed in the X-Men family, I knew about Spider-Man long before that. As Marvel's most prominent creation, he was something that I always counted on for a good read, if not consistent and regular collecting. In particular, I enjoyed the Amazing Spider-Man series under David Michelinie and Mark Bagley, which I think is absolutely spectacular. Furthermore, having recently read and enjoyed Venom's Wrath, by Dean Wesley Smith, I knew that this author was one to watch. So, after seeing the spiffy cover painting by Julie Bell, and noticing the co-author credits for both Michelinie and Smith, I figured that this would be a sure shot, and well worth my time and money. I wasn't entirely wrong, but I wasn't entirely happy, just the same. I think Michelinie is a fantastic writer, but his is a style that is suited more to the visual medium of a comic book. He works best when Bagley is interpreting his writing into dynamic and creative art, but in the relatively sterile world of the novel, he doesn't have quite that same impact. As I read Carnage in New York, I was unhappy with the pacing and the mechanics of the story. I think Michelinie deserves blame for the mechanics. For one, Smith's solo novel shows none of the overly dramatic sentence construction. For another, Michelinie is clearly used to shorter dialogue in comic books, and would naturally have trouble here. Regardless of whose fault it is, the writing suffers from "drama by repetition," as I call it. Basically, the same concept is stated differently in successive sentences to hit home the message. For example, I saw a lot of: "He'd been so focused that he'd forgotten the woman who raised him. "Forgot she needed his help today more than any other day in her life. "And he had failed her. "Now he didn't even want to face her." I can't stand something that obvious. That cliché also ruins the classic story of Uncle Ben's death by being too over-the-top. It's not that I was even watching for this kind of writing, but it struck me in the face because it's hard to miss and hard to enjoy. Moreover, the pacing also has some problems. In the novel, Carnage is brought to New York to find a 'cure' for him (first, why would they extradite him instead of exporting the scientists to the Vault? It's not as if the equipment they use isn't portable, since they move it into the testing ground). Naturally, he escapes (and the fact that the guards blow his cage apart by accident is intolerably dumb), but only after HALF of the novel is over. That means that Spider-Man wraps the whole thing up in 122 pages. That's way too long of an exposition and way too short of a resolution. Again, I think Michelinie is too used to writing shorter stories. I wouldn't say the story itself was bad, but it really felt compressed. It didn't have the same intensity or urgency of the Maximum Carnage crossover in the comic books (which I felt was really well done). I would recommend purchasing a different novel if you're looking for something engaging. This is filler for the Spider-Man completist, and unnecessary for the passing fan.
Rating: 
Summary: One of the best Spidey novels to date
Review: I really liked Carnage in New York because it is such a classic Spider-Man, We have Peter Parker who is trying to stop Carnage from commiting murder on a large scale, we have Aunt May who is in danger of loseing her home and hopes her nephew can help prevent that. and we have Mary Jane, who knows that Peter won't be able to help his aunt without help. So she does something about that. David Michelinie really worked hard to make this novel as faithful to the Spider-Man comics as he could, and he succeeds in doing so. It's nice to read Spidey novels where Pete and MJ work together as a team to solve problems. It was also a trademark of David's long run, writing the AMAZING SPIDER-MAN comic.
Rating:
Summary: Spider-sense????
Review: I thought the book was great, Carnage is one of the scariest super-villains Spidey's ever faced, and the whole plot of the book was great. The writing, however, suffered a bit, as I noticed a lot of repetition and other small things that took away from the story. At the end I was left feeling like there should have been more, like the story could have been better, but I was still satisfied; after all, it is a Spider-Man book!
One thing that really annoyed me while I read, however, is that Spidey was clearly able to use his spider-sense to dodge Carnage's attacks, etc. But, because the alien symbiote which turned Cletus Kasady into Carnage was once joined with Spider-Man, its presence doesn't set off the wall-crawler's spider-sense, allowing Carnage to sneak up on Spidey. He should not have been able to sense Carnage's attacks coming, and his spider-sense should have been useless around him. I thought that was a real glaring error made on the part of the authors that should not have been there. But, if you can put that aside, you will find that while this isn't the best Spider-Man book out there, it is still a pretty good read.
Rating:
Summary: Spider-sense????
Review: I thought the book was great, Carnage is one of the scariest super-villains Spidey's ever faced, and the whole plot of the book was great. The writing, however, suffered a bit, as I noticed a lot of repetition and other small things that took away from the story. At the end I was left feeling like there should have been more, like the story could have been better, but I was still satisfied; after all, it is a Spider-Man book!
One thing that really annoyed me while I read, however, is that Spidey was clearly able to use his spider-sense to dodge Carnage's attacks, etc. But, because the alien symbiote which turned Cletus Kasady into Carnage was once joined with Spider-Man, its presence doesn't set off the wall-crawler's spider-sense, allowing Carnage to sneak up on Spidey. He should not have been able to sense Carnage's attacks coming, and his spider-sense should have been useless around him. I thought that was a real glaring error made on the part of the authors that should not have been there. But, if you can put that aside, you will find that while this isn't the best Spider-Man book out there, it is still a pretty good read.
Rating:
Summary: Great Book
Review: I thought this book was great because the plot and the way the book was written was great. If you like action then this is the book for you will not be disapointed.
Rating:
Summary: Great Book
Review: I thought this book was great because the plot and the way the book was written was great. If you like action then this is the book for you will not be disapointed.
Rating:
Summary: This book is great-Jake
Review: I'm a huge Spider-Man fan. I saw the movie and I'm begging my dad to take me again. I got into Spider-Man about a year ago. Around that time I was just looking around on this sight when I saw this book. I bought it immediately... and I loved it! It was a definite page-turner. This book has comic book-like drawings at the beginings of every chapter(highly detailed).
It is not like that Venom book. It gives great accounts of the fights between Spidey and Carnage. Unfortunately, this book is rather disturbing. For example, Carnage criticized someone then brutally slaughtered him. A few pages later, Spider-Man finds the remains of one of Carnage's victims draped over a balcony and then has to save a woman Carnage threw over it.
Do me a favor. Buy this book(Hope I didn't spoil it too much for you!)
|
