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saritaroth's review against another edition
5.0
This book really kept me interested. I read most of it on a road trip and I was on the edge of the car seat pretty much the whole time. Not only was the concept and events intriguing, albeit in a gruesome way, but the narrator was very compelling and humorous when humor is called for. I would highly recommend it.
phlegyas's review against another edition
5.0
(note:it's been more than 10 years since I read this book & it was the translated version that I read. Into Hellenic)
the first review about this book here on GR (by mark)is spot on. A bit on theone side but still.
Simon Clark's Blood Crazy is in one word "unsurpassed". In my opinion, although I have wholeheartedly enjoyed other novels by Clark, this is his masterpiece.
This is a rollercoaster that takes you in with the first couple of paragraphs, yanks you about chapter after chapter, and then, depending on your psyche, it either delivers you in the last few sentences or, it never does.
The writing is superb, crude and rough and sharp, simply superb. The characters are (very well said mark) reminiscent of the Lord of the Flies, the setting is your every day neighbourhood and the predicament is a painfully believable post apocalyptic word where the generation gap takes a whole new meaning.
Simon Clark takes stuff that has been overused, overtalked about and yet, somehow, manages to create something unique and never, not even once, fall into any of the pitfalls that others make a habit of revisiting time after time.
This book propelled Simon Clark to the top of still breathing authors (till he was kicked a step down by Sergey Vasilievich Lukyanenko).
the first review about this book here on GR (by mark)is spot on. A bit on theone side but still.
Simon Clark's Blood Crazy is in one word "unsurpassed". In my opinion, although I have wholeheartedly enjoyed other novels by Clark, this is his masterpiece.
This is a rollercoaster that takes you in with the first couple of paragraphs, yanks you about chapter after chapter, and then, depending on your psyche, it either delivers you in the last few sentences or, it never does.
The writing is superb, crude and rough and sharp, simply superb. The characters are (very well said mark) reminiscent of the Lord of the Flies, the setting is your every day neighbourhood and the predicament is a painfully believable post apocalyptic word where the generation gap takes a whole new meaning.
Simon Clark takes stuff that has been overused, overtalked about and yet, somehow, manages to create something unique and never, not even once, fall into any of the pitfalls that others make a habit of revisiting time after time.
This book propelled Simon Clark to the top of still breathing authors (till he was kicked a step down by Sergey Vasilievich Lukyanenko).
aaronlindsey's review against another edition
5.0
Holy cow, how have I not heard of this one before now?
Classic 80's horror beautifully done. A horrific journey of epic proportions. It's like a mix of The Stand, The Walking Dead, and, oddly enough...The Secret, LOL. And that's the part I didn't care for... the philosophical stuff near the end. Weird. But I do understand that it was a necessary component to the story.
Classic 80's horror beautifully done. A horrific journey of epic proportions. It's like a mix of The Stand, The Walking Dead, and, oddly enough...The Secret, LOL. And that's the part I didn't care for... the philosophical stuff near the end. Weird. But I do understand that it was a necessary component to the story.
barmyjen's review against another edition
adventurous
challenging
dark
mysterious
sad
tense
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated
4.0
When adults start murdering children, the children must so what they can to survive. This book starts off as an interesting end of the world kind of story, and develops into one full of novel ideas that really makes you think. Very intriguing!
david_agranoff's review against another edition
4.0
Full review coming. Although it pre-dates 28 days later, hollywood would pitch this as 28 days later or the crazies meets Lord of the flies. Excellent end of the world novel with a scene near they end that disturbed me deeply. Cool book.
c0urtneyscz's review against another edition
4.0
Maybe 3.5 ⭐ the weird falling in love with every girl he met got pretty annoying and strange. But, overall I enjoyed the story!
jenniferlwatson's review against another edition
adventurous
challenging
dark
emotional
hopeful
informative
inspiring
mysterious
reflective
sad
tense
slow-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated
4.25
sade's review against another edition
2.0
1.5 Stars
Clark, admirably has to be said, does try to take this book in a some sort of horror direction - it definitely was a fascinating concept, but ultimately is bogged down by way too much YA tropes...insta love, poetic language
This book is YA to the CORE!! meaning you spend a shit load of time reading through a teenager's thoughts that come of in a somewhat poetic form. For some weird reason hard core YA writers have this insane need to qualify every action with poetic like words, like as if for some reason the reader will be unable to understand the depth of emotion if this isn't used.
"Memories of the drive come back to me now. Bright and hard but somehow broken and disconnected".
"Baz stared at the blood. Fresh and red and wet".
I know some people don't mind this, but ultimately it's not a form of writing that i've been able to grow to love.
Is it hard core YA if characters don't fall in love??? Imagine a hard core YA novel, with 2 teenage characters and no love story in the works. The HORROR!!! How dare you put 2 teenagers of the opposite sex together and not make them see the stars in each other's eyes.. HOW DARE YOU!!!! This is YA goddammit!!!
I imagine every hard core YA writer has this thought and well voila insta love is born...
and the final nail in the coffin of this book, explaining the horror.
I'm more amused than upset (ok fine, fine, i am a little bit upset) with the direction this book went when it came to this part of this book. It was unbelievably laughable. The book basically uses
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Freud's theory of consciousness to explain away the horrors. When you think of it, it's actually quite clever, my problem as someone who has spent almost all her higher educational years using social theories to write essays is that we all know using one theory to explain the universe in social sciences is beyond simplistic and so wrong. You know that just because one theory is well liked doesn't mean social theorists still can't poke so much holes in it, it'll leave your head spinning. Also i'm pretty sure Freud theory of consciousness doesn't mean you'll start acting like a zombieOther random peeves were the names of the chapter which 9 out of 10 times had absolutely nothing to do with the content of the chapter. Also, what i can only describe as
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gratuitous sex scenesI can't in all honesty say there was anything to love about this book. It was so unbelievably lukewarm..