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3.57 AVERAGE
3.57 AVERAGE
The ceiling for this book was never going to be incredibly high…but it reached it nonetheless. You want a book where cockroaches do horrific things to people? Look no further! What else do you want??
This is what happens to a bunny in this book: "The body was a ruptured blob with flaps of shredded gristle and bone curdled in a vile bloody soup". Which is pretty much to be expected from a tale of mutant cockroaches.
A brave bunch of locals fight the roaches while falling in love and learning about genetics and biology. It's a funny sort of eighties novel that tries to be kind of diverse, I guess, with interesting results. The characters all feel great about being super progressive, even allowing a person of colour into their midst. There's a brilliant and noble lady scientist with a crippled hand (because she tried to save a lab mouse from drowning in nitric acid, which makes me wonder about her briliance but who am I to judge), who occasionally muses about gender bias. My favorite characters, though only guest stars, are the three out of town hoodlums who have the most bisarre idea of hoodlumming and meet gory ends, as they should.
Bless Valancourt for this service to humanity.
A brave bunch of locals fight the roaches while falling in love and learning about genetics and biology. It's a funny sort of eighties novel that tries to be kind of diverse, I guess, with interesting results. The characters all feel great about being super progressive, even allowing a person of colour into their midst. There's a brilliant and noble lady scientist with a crippled hand (because she tried to save a lab mouse from drowning in nitric acid, which makes me wonder about her briliance but who am I to judge), who occasionally muses about gender bias. My favorite characters, though only guest stars, are the three out of town hoodlums who have the most bisarre idea of hoodlumming and meet gory ends, as they should.
Bless Valancourt for this service to humanity.
adventurous
informative
tense
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Plot
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
No
The movie is deff more campy, but this was weirdly informative about bugs and science-y stuff and omg the deaths were gnarly. Plus.. cockroaches, ew.
a little slow at times, especially in the set up, but the final half was excellent!
Great characters, a terrifying efficient monster, and the inclusion of science to give some inkling of possibility to the disaster
I was surprised how invested I got with the story (but maybe that's my soft spot for isolated fishing communities) If your a fan of B-horror movies this ones for you :)
Great characters, a terrifying efficient monster, and the inclusion of science to give some inkling of possibility to the disaster
I was surprised how invested I got with the story (but maybe that's my soft spot for isolated fishing communities) If your a fan of B-horror movies this ones for you :)
I'm genuinely surprised at how much I enjoyed this pulpy, relentless novel. Instead of stopping reading when I got off the train, I walked home reading it.
adventurous
tense
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
N/A
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
N/A
adventurous
challenging
dark
mysterious
tense
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Plot
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
No
Jesus y'all... This fucking book. Its like passing a horrible car crash where you can't look away at the bodies on the road. I hate, HATE, despise cockroaches... Now I'm reading about mutant ones that devour everyone and everything leaving no trace, not even bone or the clothes you were wearing. I want to swipe at bugs on me that aren't there.
I don't think I've read a book that disturbed me this much since I read The Entity by Frank de Felitta...I left the lights on for nights after that book.
Anyone else read The nest? Thoughts?
I don't think I've read a book that disturbed me this much since I read The Entity by Frank de Felitta...I left the lights on for nights after that book.
Anyone else read The nest? Thoughts?
“Jaws” but with cockroaches instead of sharks. The prose is surprisingly top notch (think peak Stephen King). Gruesome and super fatalistic and very fun!