The Rats
by:
James Herbert (author)
Format: paperback
ISBN:
0450050629
Publish date: October 1980
Publisher: New English Library
Pages no: 188
Edition language: English
Category:
Novels,
Science Fiction,
European Literature,
British Literature,
Adult,
Mystery,
Thriller,
Modern,
Animals,
Horror,
Apocalyptic
Series: Rats (#1)
I feel so conflicted, because I loved this unrepentantly cheesy horror story about a mutant rat colony swarming up from the depths and taking over the city on so many levels, and yet the slightest critical scrutiny makes the whole thing fall apart. It’s a classic case of good storytelling over struc...
I found this book at a large book sale recently, and my edition has a cover that looks like rats ate half of it. Immediately intrigued by this, I just had to buy it. While I'm not a big fan of rats, they do not really terrify me. Or at least, they didn't use to. The story features an infestation w...
From Casual Debris. There is nothing intelligent about The Rats: the social commentary is incidental, the writing is plain, and while the structure is interesting it is far from ground-breaking. Yet the novel is, without respite, highly entertaining."Without respite" is an easy claim as the book i...
By gnawing through a dike, even a rat may drown a nation.Edmund BurkeThere are rats and then there are RATS.A scientist has brought back an oversized rat from a radioactive island, and he begins breeding it with the local London rats. These rats are famous in their own right for bringing down London...
Rat's rat's Everywhere!... For a city worker like Me I often sit on the tube and imagine what is under us on the tube... Or Even below us in London in the sewage system's. I mean everyone Knows rats love the sewers and old derelict houses. Places were people don't necessary live. This book put's...
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