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The Deep
by Nick Cutter
Hot mess express.
I should have known by the fact that the blurb on the front is about another book entirely.
Another clue: the fact that the front type says “Save your last breath to scream.” Ugh.
It’s like Stephen King’s It and Michael Crichton’s Sphere had a boring, unoriginal baby.
The first 100 pages or so are awesome. They read a bit like Crichton. Then, oh god why.
The protagonist gets called to an undersea base where his brother — a brilliant scientist — is researching a mysterious substance that appears to preserve life, even after death.
Most of the people in the world are dying of something called “the ‘Gets,” which is short for “forgets.” People basically go through cataclysmic, rapid-fire Alzheimers and die. Scientists hope that this undersea goop can be used to save/protect the remaining humans.
This goop can only be found on the ocean floor, like 8 miles down. So the protagonist hops in a deep-sea sub with a kickass army lady, and they go down to the Deep-Sea-Horror-Locale. Which looks like a giant spider.
I hate dream sequences. So of course there are hundreds of pages of the protagonist imagining things. Turns out, he’s always imagined them.
He saw a creepy, floppy, long arm with nails coming at him from storm drains when he was a kid. That same Creep Arm came out of a (clown-decorated) toy box his abusive mother bought him. When his son was a baby, he thought he saw a giant House Centipede attacking the baby. Then his son mysteriously disappeared.
I’m going to go ahead and spoil this book for you now, so you don’t have to read it.
The owner of the Creep Arms is an undersea malignant force that is also responsible for the Goop. The Goop possesses things and turns them into zombies.
The Goop/Creep Arms kidnapped the protagonist’s son so it could… um… live inside the son. Then the malignant force brought the protagonist down to it. After the protagonist has hundreds of pages of nightmares, the creepy, fester-y son-thing climbs into the protagonist/host. The conglomerate monstrosity then goes up to the surface to spread a plague of evil.
AND THE DOG DIES.
The end.
No, it doesn’t make sense while you’re reading it, either.
If the evil monsters were able to go onto land to kidnap the son, why didn’t they spread their evil then? Why the long-term plan? What the what?
I should have known by the fact that the blurb on the front is about another book entirely.
Another clue: the fact that the front type says “Save your last breath to scream.” Ugh.
It’s like Stephen King’s It and Michael Crichton’s Sphere had a boring, unoriginal baby.
The first 100 pages or so are awesome. They read a bit like Crichton. Then, oh god why.
The protagonist gets called to an undersea base where his brother — a brilliant scientist — is researching a mysterious substance that appears to preserve life, even after death.
Most of the people in the world are dying of something called “the ‘Gets,” which is short for “forgets.” People basically go through cataclysmic, rapid-fire Alzheimers and die. Scientists hope that this undersea goop can be used to save/protect the remaining humans.
This goop can only be found on the ocean floor, like 8 miles down. So the protagonist hops in a deep-sea sub with a kickass army lady, and they go down to the Deep-Sea-Horror-Locale. Which looks like a giant spider.
I hate dream sequences. So of course there are hundreds of pages of the protagonist imagining things. Turns out, he’s always imagined them.
He saw a creepy, floppy, long arm with nails coming at him from storm drains when he was a kid. That same Creep Arm came out of a (clown-decorated) toy box his abusive mother bought him. When his son was a baby, he thought he saw a giant House Centipede attacking the baby. Then his son mysteriously disappeared.
I’m going to go ahead and spoil this book for you now, so you don’t have to read it.
Spoiler
The owner of the Creep Arms is an undersea malignant force that is also responsible for the Goop. The Goop possesses things and turns them into zombies.
The Goop/Creep Arms kidnapped the protagonist’s son so it could… um… live inside the son. Then the malignant force brought the protagonist down to it. After the protagonist has hundreds of pages of nightmares, the creepy, fester-y son-thing climbs into the protagonist/host. The conglomerate monstrosity then goes up to the surface to spread a plague of evil.
AND THE DOG DIES.
The end.
No, it doesn’t make sense while you’re reading it, either.
If the evil monsters were able to go onto land to kidnap the son, why didn’t they spread their evil then? Why the long-term plan? What the what?