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... Others being his most recent book, but he has written well over 20 books since the early 80s. Well I am ashamed in leaving this book unread for so long. After starting it last week, I have now finished it, awe-struck. I wasnt all that sure when I started it. The first chapter was a little ... Read review

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AN APOCALYPTIC VISON

Advantages: Will keep you turning the pages, very indepth, a true horror as its based on fact
Disadvantages: Very in depth, keep you up all night, youll be sleeping with the lights on

...king of horror has written. Others being his most recent book, but he has written well over 20 books since the early 80s.


Well I am ashamed in leaving this book unread for so long. After starting it last week, I have now finished it, awe-struck. I wasnt all that sure when I started it. The first chapter was a little weird, starting in fact in what I would call Hell. This first chapter describes a man, a condemned man at that, ...
...the pain this man is in. His remorse, his pity, his repentance in what he did in his previous life. His man, his identity unknown was filled with dread. He didnt know how long he'd been there for, how long he was going to bed there for, but you can almost, almost hear him scream. His man was visited by two figures and after consideration, careful thought and probably spitefulness, gave his pitiful man his judgement.

In the second ... more

chrissiepops 07.07.2001
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More shocking than scary

Advantages: Original and interesting main character in a well-written and paced novel.
Disadvantages: Overly reliant on shock revelations than scary moments especially the ending

...inward groan when I received Others for Christmas. It wasn’t that 48 was bad, it was an interesting story but, at the time, I thought too simple and almost naively written. Anyway enough waffle. For those that don’t know James Herbert is not a horror writer but instead a chiller fiction writer, the difference I presume is that chiller fiction is more realistic than out and out horror. Indeed at the end of Others a note from Herbert claims ...
...Rest as well as the Others and of course our lead character, Dis. So is the book any good? Personally it’s not my cup of tea, the novel is well paced and Dis is an original and interesting lead character. Herbert’s first person style is well suited to developing the lead especially when expressing feelings and emotions. When I compare it to 48 I am surprised as Others is far superior in terms of style of writing and complexity of story. ...

Mercury 06.02.2001 (26.02.2001) · Read full review
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Others

Advantages: Very well set out story, full of twists and turns
Disadvantages: Cant think of any

Believe it or not I read this one from start to finish on a beach in Jamaica and I got so immersed in it that I practically lost 2 days of my holiday, I could just not put it down. It does start off sort of weird but you soon forget about that as you end up practically getting inside the main characters head and experiencing the events from his perspective. I wont spoil it for you because to give you anything other than the vaguest outline of the ...
...tell you that the book was inspired by an elderly friend of James Herbert who used to work at a hospital in London. She apparently entered an unmarked ward and was confronted with numerous cots containing very badly deformed babies but nobody could give her any explanation as to who they were or what happened with them. The book goes on to examine and flesh out one particular gruesome and sickening explanation which also has an unexpected sting ...

Mickm9 17.12.2000 · Read full review
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A maturity on top a return to form - wonderful.

Advantages: A return to majesty, showing new levels of maturity.
Disadvantages: Genuinely disturbing - not your 'fun' horror.

...'The Fog', 'The Dark', and others from his early career, and our expectations of him are subsequently enormous. When he fails to deliver something with the same power, that failing can cause n almost vitriolic backlash in the reader. The price of fame, alas. It is with some relief then, that I found 'Others' to be among the best novels he has written, a yarn that demonstrates levels of maturity and storytelling prowess unlike anything to have come ...
...with perfect rest, and the Others hidden away there, with all the social implications that they wield. Finally, intriguingly, there is the ongoing theme of redemption and past lives. Many might think that the notion of being born crippled in order to atone for sins in a past life is deeply offensive. Yet Dismas is so superbly detailed, so vibrantly human, that all such notions vanish within a handful of pages. Herbert isn't out to offend, he's trying ...

RichardW 30.07.2000 · Read full review
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I hate reading

Advantages: Easy to follow gripping story lines
Disadvantages: Can't put the book down

I have never been a good reader and find it hard to set aside time to pick up a book. On occasions I find I need something to relax me which is usually when my brain is over loaded with work and life in the real world. I bought a second hand James Herbert book and set to reading it. I quickly covered the Rats and moved on the the Fog, followed closely by Domain. I found that I could not put the books down. I really enjoyed The Magic Cottage and ...
...read I was impressed with how he managed to captivate me. I found the text easy to follow and the storylines were not predicatable. I am not a creamish person at all but my sister, who can't watch horror films read the Rats and had to sleep with the light on for a week. I can't compare him to other writers because he is all I have read but I will be more than happy when I take my next time out to pick up another one of his wonderful books ...

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an excellent read

Advantages: excellent storyline with definable start, middle and end
Disadvantages: nothing, perfect

This is my favourite James Herbert book and probably my favourite horror story ever. Unlike many books, it has a clear beginning, middle and end and each character is described in so much detail that you can almost see them as you read the book. It tells the story of a private detective (Nick Dismas) who is sent to investigate the "missing" son of a widow. Fine, except that all records of the son say he died at birth. As the story developes, there ...
...boy is still out there. It all culminates in a rather gruesome, and often gratuatous, climax at an old people's home. It's shocking in parts and occasionally very gory but it's just impossible to put down. I find that once you get about 3/4 of the way through Herbert's later work, you have to just carry on reading until you reach the end no matter where you are or what you're doing. The ending though, is just the most perfect conclusion I have ...

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I have just finished reading James Herberts - Creed and I found it utterly enthralling. The story tells the tale of a man names Creed, a famous and very good (by all accounts) member of the paparazzi, known for getting the photoes that everyone wants to see (usually the celebrities snogging someone they DON't want to be seen with)...except, one day he photo's something that he shouldn't have and he is thrown in to a whole different world, where horrors haunt him and he loses track of reality. This is a gripping book, one of Herberts best, and I suggest that after this you read 'others' also by James Herbert that follows the same sort of story but it much more developed with charatcers and plot. ...

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Advantages: James Herbert
Disadvantages: Not as scary as normal

I’ve got to be honest about this one and say its not one of my favourite James Herbert novels, this doesn’t mean it wont appeal to other James Herbert fans. That all depends on which elements of his work you prefer, myself I enjoy the more macabre elements or a really strong story line. Although this does have these to a certain degree it didn’t “scare” me or entertain me in the same way as some of his other pieces, again though this is only my opinion so don’t let it put you off. Although the story itself is not too bad (more later) the “scary” bits in it didn’t really work for me and I found the ending a little bit of an anti climax I am probably being a little hard on the book if truth be known because as far as horror stories go it is better than most other authors work ...

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