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Summary: Fue excelente, pocos libros meten tanto al lector.....
Review: Un libro que todoslos que leen ciencia ficcion deben leer, no podia dejarlo, David hace que el lector sienta lo que sienten sus personajes...
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Summary: Waiting for the fifth book
Review: Waiting for the fifth book and a rerelease of the orignal four books! Greatest series I've read in a while and I'd love to find another book/series that potrayed the invasion of earth with such detail and flair!
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Summary: nothing to start with !!
Review: Why is this book nothing to be read ?
Because if you start reading the first book (you'll end some 3 to 4 hours later, when you've read the last line), stopping your daily duty just for buying the 3 sequels, wondering for some years 'When will the 5'th book be written ? WHEN ??' you are no longer the same person at all.
You start thinking about building a house somewhere in e.g. Montana, learning about explosives, guns, extraterrestial biology and the usuall stuff to surwive an alien encounter of the very most dangerous kind ever possible.
Thank heaven someone from the future (David Gerrold) wrote some books about what happend so you will know.
and by the way: you'll never trust a tiny worm and the easter bunny again - for sure
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Summary: felt like I jumped off a bridge...
Review: Wow. Weirdest thing I've ever read. I dropped right off the mainstream-elegant-feminine-fantasy platform into some strange, neo-retro masculine dimension. Can *definitely* tell this was written by a man, and that this adolescent *female* reader was not the target age group... though I doubt this was aimed for commercial success... more like the 30ish, chubby, comic/video game/computer MALE geek... no wonder I feel like I landed on the moon. Highly intrigueing... enthralling. Couldn't put it down; and when I did, my dad picked it up off my bedroom floor and idly started reading it... then *he* couldn't put it down... I think that pretty much speaks for itself. The only thing my limited reading experiences could compare it to are Starship Troopers or Midshipman's Hope. I'd recommend it... if you trust *my* opinion.
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Summary: When will this be back in print?
Review: ~A Matter for Men~ hits the ground running, and doesn't look back; I can't imagine anyone not being shocked by the end of the first chapter. Gerrold does an excellent job of depicting a world just barely surviving a series of plagues, only to be beset by attacks from the Chtorrans (think large pink worms that think *you're* lunch).Jim McCarthy is an excellent protagonist, and he clearly develops over the course of the novel--while surviving numerous life-threatening encounters with the Chtorrans--becoming, to quote Coleridge, "a sadder and a wiser man" by the end. The book did remind me of Heinlein's ~Starship Troopers~, although I think this book is an order of magnitude better: almost everything that happens in Gerrold's book is, if not likely, at least plausible. [The one notable exception would be the fate of Jim's friend Ted; I didn't quite understand the motivation for his actions late in the book.] In particular, the flashbacks and sidebars seem particularly well-placed and don't disrupt the narrative. [There are questions raised that aren't answered, but as there are six more books in the series (three of those not yet published), I suspect many of those questions will be answered later.] Gerrold wrote this as the first book in a series of seven (so far, four have come out; fans have been waiting a decade for the fifth), and they're all out of print. Gerrold has said there are plans to bring the first four books back when the fifth comes out; I, and many others, eagerly await their re-release.
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