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This is a Shaun Hutson type gruesome horror. It starts off quite slow and boring... like a crime novel - trying to solve the mystery behind a murder. The unusual thing is that the detective is... more

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  • 103 of 103 Ciao users found the following review helpful
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    stuleg

    5 Stars “I wasn’t there when I died” Review with images 27/04/2004
    User recommends the product

    Advantages Advantages A fine book from a fine British Author

    Disadvantages Disadvantages None of Note

    “Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome.” Few authors can write about life or death in such a dramatic and all encompassing way as James Herbert has in Nobody True. For this reason I number him amongst my favourite writers in the mystery and thriller genre with the sure knowledge that when I pick up one of his books I know I’m about to go on a dizzying journey filled with passion and heartache in fairly equal measure, Herbert really is the very best of British authors. “Birth and Death are the two noblest expressions of bravery” James True was a slip of a ... more
  • 59 of 59 Ciao users found the following review helpful
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    Marandina

    3 Stars FIEND WITH A KNITTING NEEDLE GETS CARRIED AWAY 18/07/2004
    User recommends the product

    Advantages Advantages Good story, fairly horrific

    Disadvantages Disadvantages Twists aren't strong enough, not really pc

    “I wasn’t there when I died. Really. I wasn’t. And finding my body dead came as a shock. Hell, I was horrified, lost, couldn’t understand what the fuck had happened.” James True is one third of the True, Guinane, Presswell enterprise that operates in the hurly burly world of advertising. Having discovered the strange ability to leave his body at the age of 6, out of body (OBEs) experiences have been a regular feature ever since passing out in a Bournemouth boarding house having swallowed a hot piece of potato. Married to Andrea with a young daughter called Prim, James True tells the curious ... more
  • 63 of 63 Ciao users found the following review helpful
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    jacpuss

    5 Stars Nobody True! But Was it You? 28/03/2006
    User recommends the product

    Advantages Advantages A Great Get Your Teeth into Read.

    Disadvantages Disadvantages You Will Not Be Able To Put It Down.

    Nobody True is James Herbert's 21st novel and doesn`t disappoint us with this proud selection in his masterpieces of, horror and Fictional writing. He always seems to be able to keep each and every new book fresh and new, with exciting new characters and events, usually building up into a crescendo of suspense and excitement. I have been a huge fan of Herbert's for some years now i don't think i know a book i have been disappointed with. I am hoping this review will, give you an insight as to what the book is about, i will try to "wet your appetite"but i don`t want to give too much away. So ... more
  • 31 of 31 Ciao users found the following review helpful
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    markd_uk

    2 Stars Nobody Worth The Time 13/08/2006
    User doesn't recommend the product

    Advantages Advantages It has James Herbert's name on the cover

    Disadvantages Disadvantages Repetition, ponderous prose, obstructive footnotes

    James Herbert has always ranked amongst my top three favourite authors. For a long time, Herbert was second only to Stephen King, but more lately Dean Koontz has taken over that mantel. For me, however, Herbert's ranking in my own personal list of "world's best authors" is steadily slipping. Many of Herbert's earlier novels (such as The Rats, The Fog, Shrine, The Magic Cottage) or those of a few years later (Sepulchre, Creed, Portent etc.) are some of the best novels in the horror genre ever written. More recently, though, I'm finding that Herbert's novels don't match up to the quality of ... more
  • 29 of 29 Ciao users found the following review helpful
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    Level 6 Emma1973

    Member since 16/09/2001

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    5 Stars Whos' walking over your grave? 23/10/2003
    User recommends the product

    Advantages Advantages Well written, back to the old form

    Disadvantages Disadvantages Some may find it a bit taxing

    Take a big dollop of Fluke, a spoonful of Others, a pinch of The Dark and the tiniest drop of The Jonah, stir it up and you may well have James Herbert's new book 'Nobody True'. Or perhaps I'm being a little unfair on the whole thing, lets take a peek. Nobody True, (don't make the same mistake as I did calling it Nobody's True, sounds easier) is the newest output of Britain's greatest horror writer James Herbert. Although I'm sure that I'd call him a horror writer anymore, supernatural, that's more the word. But even so he's moved away, like Stephen King into other directions. 48' and Others ... more

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Type Fiction
Genre Horror
Title Nobody true
Author James Herbert
ISBN 0330411675; 0765312123; 140500519X; 1405041188; 1405041730; 1843954303

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