The Conqueror Worms
Format: ebook
ISBN:
9781428501713 (1428501711)
Publish date: August 28th 2009
Publisher: Leisure Books
Edition language: English
Series: The Earthworm Gods (#1)
Brian Keene may be the king (with a small "k") of end-of-the-world novels. In The Conqueror Worms, the earth is besieged by Noah sized rains plus water monsters and worms of Lovecraftian proportion. The tale starts at full speed as narrated by 80 year old Teddy Burnett, a live-wire geriatric hero if...
Reading for Jare's 2010 Spills & Chills Release Challenge.I haven't read a book where the main protagonist is a crabby 80 year old guy since struggling through King's Insomnia many moons ago. Fortunately, this story is much more interesting. This guy is a lone survivor (or so it seems) in a world...
After reading Dead Sea I start reading this book. I still have to read The Hollow, Ghoul and Dark Hollow and the anthology the Rising (arriving this next week). The others I don't have... Maybe after reading this ones... I must save money...Well this book is a homage (is it?) to Lovecraft and it's C...
Fast read. Action packed. I enjoyed the old mans method of telling the story. As the saying goes: "there are more things in heaven and earth...."
This really should have been a great book but I just couldn’t get into the main character who was an old man and we say this whole end of the world from his point of view. He was so feeble and non-adventurous that it was sad not exciting. The plot is that it started raining and never stopped and aft...