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Summary: A scientific thriller!
Review: An original book that make the reader think of the unexplained. Yet another masterpiece to add to John Wyndham's collection of classics. Brilliant.
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Summary: A group of children with one mind
Review: Midwich was an ordinary village. Until the Dayout. Everyone in the village was sleeping. Anyone who ventured into the outskirts of the village would mysteriously black out. The next day things were back to normal. But every woman of suitable age was pregnant..."The Midwich Cuckoos" is a metaphorical title for a book about collective intelligence. The alien children born in the village are identical. Golden eyed, unemotional, endowed with mental powers and superior intelligence. Over the years the Children become a bigger problem. They commit a murder and contol the minds of others. They are cold, ruthless and calculating. This book has been described as disturbing. When it was first published the idea of children committing murderer was probably quite shocking. These days it seems normal. This is an interesting book but I prefer the apocalyptic scenarios in "The Day of the Triffids" and "The Chrysalids".
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Summary: A great book, and the two movies were also great.
Review: Out of all the books I have read this has been the greatest book, and the movies were great too. John Carpenter(Director of Holloween) did a excellent job, the original movie was even better. This book is probly the book that me expired to write, and I also believe that John Wyndham expired John Carpenter and Stephen King too.
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Summary: A quiet english village sleeps... and sleeps
Review: The Midwich Cuckoos is a tale of alien invasion. One day the whole town of Midwich falls into a sleep. When they awaken a day later, every woman of childbearing age is pregnant. Nine months later somewhat odd children with the power to control minds have been born.
This is a very interesting and frightening idea, but curiously, there is no suspense to the book at all. The characters just don't seem to react to the circumstances. Odd things happen and they just shrug their shoulders and go on about their business, resigned to their fate. And no one outside the village seems to notice! A major part of the problem is that the narrator isn't involved, he just chronicles what happens with a vague sense of disquiet, but nothing more. It makes you want to reach into the book and give these people a shake and tell them to wake up. Maybe it's a British stiff upper lip kind of thing, I don't know, but the result is a story that is interesting, but never involving.
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Summary: immaculate conceptions in Midwich?
Review: The Midwich Cuckoos is a very interesting, if somewhat dated, story. We have a quaint English village with all its women of child-bearing age suddenly (..spontaneously!) becoming pregnant, including virgins. Divine intervention? Well, let us say there was some intervention from something beyond this world. Curiously, the folks of Midwich carry on with the births of these children. However these children soon exhibit rather sinister traits, and Midwich soon finds itself overwhelmed. While certainly a fascinating read, The Midwich Cuckoos has a somewhat dated feel. Certainly alien invasions and the raising of alien beings wouldn't go down well with most folks nowadays. And unlike other Wyndham novels I fail to see any underlying social message here (..other than don't raise kids that aren't humans?). Still, Wyndham is a clever writer. And The Midwich Cuckoos is one of his better efforts. Bottom lines: strange, disturbing, and not terribly believable. But certainly an interesting read.
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Summary: immaculate conceptions in Midwich?
Review: The Midwich Cuckoos is a very interesting, if somewhat dated, story. We have a quaint English village with all its women of child-bearing age suddenly (..spontaneously!) becoming pregnant, including virgins. Divine intervention? Well, let us say there was some intervention from something beyond this world. Curiously, the folks of Midwich carry on with the births of these children. However these children soon exhibit rather sinister traits, and Midwich soon finds itself overwhelmed. While certainly a fascinating read, The Midwich Cuckoos has a somewhat dated feel. Certainly alien invasions and the raising of alien beings wouldn't go down well with most folks nowadays. And unlike other Wyndham novels I fail to see any underlying social message here (..other than don't raise kids that aren't humans?). Still, Wyndham is a clever writer. And The Midwich Cuckoos is one of his better efforts. Bottom lines: strange, disturbing, and not terribly believable. But certainly an interesting read.
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Summary: I think The Midwich Cuckoos was an interesting book.
Review: The Midwich Cuckoos was a fun, scientific like book. I feel that it could be a little more scary than it really was expected.
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Summary: An amazing classic.
Review: The midwich cukoos was a book which contained a combination of science-fiction and intelligence (a thing not often done). In some places it did seem to get a bit tedious but overall it was impacting and original. It is such a pity that the movies made based around this novel (Village of the Dammed, Children of the Dammed) didn't compare to the greatness of this all time classic. I give it a 10/10 all the way.
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Summary: A good, old fashioned horror
Review: This book is one-of-a-kind horror which scares in an almost intimate way. It gets to know the reader and then lets him/her have it, with the full force of Wyndum's talent. It shakes up reality a little. A great piece of writing.
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Summary: Much, Much, Better than the Movie(Village of the Damned)
Review: This is a great Book. I was inspired to read it after watching the movie version, and it was .....just....Great! THE END
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