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Summary: A Piece of [junk]
Review: After reading this book, I thought it was the worst Aliens novel ever written. From beggining to end it was boring. There was one pretty disgusting part in the book which made it a little more interesting, but for the most part I would not recommend this book to anyone. Oh and the ending is sooo bad. I just wanted to burn it after I finished. I highly recommend overlooking this book. If you want a good Aliens novel to read, try out Aliens: Rogue. Trust me, you won't be happy with your wasted time spent reading Aliens: Labrinth. "DON'T READ IT"
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Summary: GREAT THRILLER!!!!!!
Review: Aliens Labyrinth is a book about people in a big labyrinth. They get tricked and trapped in the maze and there are many alien nests. They have to survive with a few weapons. This stroy is one of the best thrillers that I have ever read. I really don't like to read many books, but the Aliens selection is a book that keeps me interested. I don't like books that don't have action or excitment in the beginning. This story is pure adventure from the beginning to the end. It's the best!!!
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Summary: Where credit is due.
Review: Aliens Labyrinth is an outstanding tale , probably the best spin off novelization from the original movie bloodline. I don't want to give the plot away too much but as the name suggests there is a labyrinth ...the story itself, the scenarios tightly weaved , the sharp twists and turns and surprise ending . I personally found that much of the 'horror ' of the story disturbed me immensley , It captures the original desperate spirit of the original movie and expands upon it ,leaving your skin cold and blood chilled. Here is an important detail ... I'd like to commend JIM WOODRING for writing this truely outstanding story , when you buy this novel you may note in the small print a mention of his name , alternatively you could look out for the original graphic novel version of this book , beautifully illustrated by Kilian Plunkett and proper credit given to the storys true author . The SD Perry adaptation of the story is fair enough , in many ways it reminds me of Karioke but in a literary way.
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Summary: Horror and Depravity beyond belief. Brace yourselves...
Review: I have found that over time an Aliens fan becomes somewhat desensitised to the 'horrors' of the genre that first transfixed you. The novelty of the xenomorph wears off and becomes just a part of the environment of the story (read at least ten Aliens graphic novels and you'll see what I mean). The aliens inevitably become a mere vehicle for the story. So you look for plot and characterisation because the aliens themselves don't shock anymore; in a predictable arena in which xenomorphs are used as 'experiments' undertaken by crazy scientists/professors who want to use the aliens - and unfortunate human victims - for dastardly and evil ends. (The biggest cliché in Alien graphic novels, by the way.) The alien becomes familiar; and thus by definition - not an alien! They don't shock anymore! This has Outbreak. None of the books that followed it - besides Alien vs. Predator - shocked or gave a buzz to the reader. I was beginning to give up on stomach-churning horror, my faith was restored in the 'Alien' trademark as a byword for horror and depravity beyond your darkest imaginings. Horror that is intense enough to warp your perceptions. Horror that is an excruciating blend of your deepest disturbances, worst fears and darkest nightmares! Although the basic premise of the story is the same - mad professor experiments with aliens and humans too - the story is amplified through exceptionally good story-telling and the mechanism of a flashback sequence which explains the mad professor's background and helps you to connect with him despite his evil intentions. In Labyrinth, the aliens promote human suffering that is pushed to the absolute limit; sexual deviances [incest, cross-breeding between alien and human]; the sickening stenches, smells, odours and organic messes of the nest; the horrifying way in which the hive is living organic tissue which assimilates the hapless human creatures trapped in it, so that they swell into vomit-inducing 'food sacs' for alien nourishment, no my brief descriptions do not do justice to extended family of terra-formers land next to an alien nest on an unknown planet. The aliens kidnap them, but instead of being summarily killed or strapped to chamber walls for implantation, they are tortured and abused as the normally predictable xenomorphs use the unfortunate family as guinea pigs; a twist if there ever was one. The story centres on the son of the family, a twenty year old boy who is the only survivor. He sees the members of his family get playfully disembowelled by the xenomorphs, get their limbs removed, etc. The sadism of the aliens is numbing, but this is nothing. To survive, he manages to imitate the aliens, and they 'accept' him. He becomes one of them. He has to feed the humans trapped in the nest's walls using his own mouth - including members of his family - with alien gunge. He has to eat it himself, and drink alien bile. He swims and wallows in the xenomorphs secretions and other organical horrors. In one nest chamber, he sees his sister pregnant with a litter of alien-human hybrids, only for her to die as they all burst out of her stomach simultaneously. And at perhaps the climax of horror, he is confronted with his mother, who has had her limbs removed. The xenomorphs try to force the boy to mate with his MOTHER. My blood ran cold. The mother's eyes are beyond despair; beyond anguish...she's experienced too much. So out of love the son kills her with his own hands. The aliens are trying to cross-breed humans and aliens, because their nest is dying. The boy comes to realise this, and manages to escape by releasing a deadly fungi which hastens the death of the nest. Only when he's escaped does the boy remember that he's human. His experiences have utterly warped him, inside and out. [It is these experiences that lead this boy to become the twisted professor later on in the story, who moulds human flesh into grotesque new forms whilst making startling new discoveries about the alien's physiology, he gets face hugged, the nest is so sick that the young alien inside him dies before it can reach full term. So when the boy eventually gets back to the ship, he is able to use the ship's medical technology to operate on himself and cut the dead alien out, before it's decaying body begins to kill him. Artistic licence, I know, but who gives a toss when the story's this brutal? Even though we understand that the nest is dying, we have no idea how this comes about, and why the aliens became prompted to behave in this manner. We do not see any queen in the nest. We do not meet any persons in positions of authority manipulating. Not everything is explained, and this is excellent. Mystery.... loose ends... things we don't know about... this 'X-Files' element is the essence of the Alien concepts that pervades the films and gives them their character and atmosphere; intensifying the horror immeasurably, so why not have this in the graphic novels too? The most alien of the Alien novels. The one that was a true nightmarish brain assault, overloading the synapses with its intertwined catalogue of sights, sounds, moans, smells,stenches, sqelches and gurgles of life being wrenched away. Rarely do I read anything so numbing or disturbing in the viciousness and callousness of its horror. It hits you very hard. It could affect you. In this tale of horror, the flag of the 'Alien' and all the themes under its banner can be flown high on the mast again. Read it. Rejoice. Then go and see a shrink. Whoah.
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Summary: Great for ALIENS fans and sci fi- horror lovers.
Review: I love the whole ALIENS mythos and I've seen all the movies and read all of the novels. S.D. Perry offers some of the best contributions to the series, in my opinion, and LABYRINTH is outstanding. Perry does a great job of combining gritty sci fi with pulse pounding horror; important elements that contributed to the success of the films. Highly recommended.
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Summary: One of the best in the series!
Review: I really like S.D. Perry. Her contributions to the ALIENS series are some of the absolute best. If you love the whole mythos of the Aliens movies, then this is a must. An excellent, pulse-pounding book!
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Summary: Sick, Twisted, and Disturbing..What More Could You Want?
Review: Just finished reading it, and I couldnt put it down! Never before has a novel disturbed me in the manner that this book has. So far my second favorite Dark Horse Novel, loosing only to Aleins vs Predator: Prey. Before I go I cant help but comment on the cover art, truly magnificant!!
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Summary: Social issues of the century
Review: My jurney begins... The very context of this book carry's many misread meanings and i'm here to tell you of them. For one, this book is about a guy who want's to create a maze full of aliens and finds out the destructive power of this awesome creature. He soon feels as though he is god and decides to breed them to spawn a n invincible army. This book shows the Golden Mean Archetype. Golden Mean Archetype= Where a story holds too much things like greed, power, knowledge, take the GOLDEN hand of Midas for an example, touch it's gold. But anyway's there is a guy who finds too much power and greed in the company Conglomo. This book is an awesome use for the Golden Mean Archetype. If by some chance a teacher finds himself reading this, i hope you will also find these charecteristics and use this book to show a prime example of the Golden Mean Archetype. As a sidenote, all of the books seem to show a little use of all the Archetypes like Hero's Quest is a great one. And please someday teach these books part of outside reading to further understand the archetypes.
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Summary: Social issues of the century
Review: My jurney begins... The very context of this book carry's many misread meanings and i'm here to tell you of them. For one, this book is about a guy who want's to create a maze full of aliens and finds out the destructive power of this awesome creature. He soon feels as though he is god and decides to breed them to spawn a n invincible army. This book shows the Golden Mean Archetype. Golden Mean Archetype= Where a story holds too much things like greed, power, knowledge, take the GOLDEN hand of Midas for an example, touch it's gold. But anyway's there is a guy who finds too much power and greed in the company Conglomo. This book is an awesome use for the Golden Mean Archetype. If by some chance a teacher finds himself reading this, i hope you will also find these charecteristics and use this book to show a prime example of the Golden Mean Archetype. As a sidenote, all of the books seem to show a little use of all the Archetypes like Hero's Quest is a great one. And please someday teach these books part of outside reading to further understand the archetypes.
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Summary: Good enough, following the same conspiracy genre as usual.
Review: On the space station the Innominata, ilegal experiments are being carried out; with humans as the subject. The breeding of Xenomorphs is taking place, and unsuspescting marines are disappearing as a result of this. Eventually one marine, Anthony Crespi is sent into a manufactured labrynth of aliens with only his wits to assist him. I thought this, although similar to the usual conspiracy idea was an exellant book, the crisp art making it an even greater enjoyment to read.
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