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Manufacturer: Leisure Books
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Binding: Mass Market Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 813
EAN: 9780843958607
ISBN: 084395860X
Label: Leisure Books
Manufacturer: Leisure Books
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 337
Publication Date: 2007-07-31
Publisher: Leisure Books
Studio: Leisure Books
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Summary: I need more!
Comment: I only gave this 4 stars simply because I am greedy and the story ended far too soon to suit me! From the first page to the last I suffered right along with Lamar and the rest of the characters, and their fate -what became of them AFTER the story ended- left me wanting more. Am I greedy? Yes. Would I love to see a sequel that gives the reader some sense of hope? Yes ... but don't let that stop you from enjoying this book in itself. It is worth the read and a great way to spend a rainy day or lonely spooky night!
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Summary: Zombies, part 3, but not really . . .
Comment: I read the first two Keene "zombie" books, The Rising and City of the Dead (and loved them) and in the mean time had picked up The Conqueror Worms and Dead Sea. I figured I would take a break from zombies and read about killer worms but decided to just read the first few pages of Dead Sea. I read the first few lines and was totally hooked. Brian Keene can write!
These are the zombies I am used to. Told in the first person, the main character, Lamar, starts the story and doesn't stop for a breath for at least 100 pages.
For those reviewers who don't like the Keene style of zombie, these are in the mold of the Romero "Dead" zombies. I liked the new storyline, the characters and the writing style. I could not have been happier.
So far, my favorite Brian Keene read.
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Summary: Excellent Zombie Fun!!!
Comment: Blood and Rain
Blood for the Masses
Dead Sea
By
Brian Keene
Reviewed By
B.L.Morgan
5 Stars
Brian Keene is rapidly becoming one of my favorite horror authors. He writes fast moving horrific gross-outs that actually make you care a bit about the characters too. That's not easy to do.
This one starts a little bit after a zombie outbreak and has a gay man hiding in his apartment just trying to survive.
I'm not going to go into the plot because I don't want to spoil any of the surprises. There of course if a fight for survival and he is forced to leave the comforts of his apartment and ends up with some others out on the sea where things appear to be OK. At least for a little while. One of the things that I particularly liked was that Keene turned some stereotypes on their heads. I'm not going to detail how he did that or I'd ruin some good surprises for you.
I highly recommend Dead Sea. It's gruesome, fast-paced, has a lot of originality to it. The back cover blurb states that "Brian Keene is the next Stephen King." He definitely has enough talent to come close to being exactly that.
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Summary: Funny yes disappoint
Comment: i liked the book, except the ending, brian keene some how seems to always disappoint me at the end of the books.
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Summary: Throw this one overboard!
Comment: I wasn't as enthusiastic about "The Rising" as so many other horror fans were, but I really enjoyed the sequel "City of the Dead." From there, I went on to read Keene's "Terminal," "Ghoul," and "Dark Hollow." I enjoyed them all. Now I just finished reading "Dead Sea." What a horrible disappointment. It seems so blatantly to have been written for no other reason than to cash in on the ever-growing popularity of the author's name. Completely hollow and pointless. And, even though characters from "The Rising" and "City of the Dead" are referred to in the same world here, the zombies have been downgraded to the stupid, slow wrecks as in Romero's "Dawn of the Dead." Brian Keene, you can do a lot better than this. Please, NO MORE ZOMBIE SEQUELS!!
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