The Bridge eBook John Skipp
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When the great storm comes, the good life ends. And hell on Earth begins. For 100 years we’ve been tossing our toxic waste over our shoulders. No more. This morning, while we slept, something woke up. It’s virulent. Malign. Intelligent. Ambitious. It’s in our food, our water, our air. It’s inside our bodies themselves. And it’s not leaving. We are.
The Bridge eBook John Skipp
I read the one and two-star reviews and should have been warned off, but I bought the book anyway. Someone described it as "splatterpunk" and that's as good a term as any.The premise was intriguing enough, with some genuinely scary images, e.g. the man who's about to be engulfed by the sentient waste seeing the towering column of river water, containing hundreds of fish, each one staring at him with malevolence and newfound intelligence.
However, it was hard to care about most of the characters. The brain-rotted hayseeds who first meet the monster are all too believable, and then we get to Gary, Kirk, and Micki. Kirk may have been a yuppie slimeball, but he actually achieved a bit of nobility in his doomed, futile attempt to warn the town. And the authors couldn't even give him a peaceful death, instead subjecting the poor bugger to an agonized, ignominious end. Gary was hard to like and got off far too easily. Micki's magicks and spirit doors were just too much. I could believe the monstrous transformation of Boonie and Drew more easily than that Micki was able to get Gary past the man-eating vines.
Far too many one-sentence paragraphs like
"And that was how he sealed his fate."
I kinda liked "toddler bouillabaisse," because I don't like toddlers.
If this book was written 20 years ago, literature is in more trouble than I thought. I'm no blushing flower, but the constant, relentless profanity was almost enough to make me just stop reading, This isn't the first book I've read where every other word is f___ or s___, and it won't be the last. How I wish authors would just tell their stories without showing us how "EDGY" they are.
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The Bridge eBook John Skipp Reviews
Classic fantastic Skipp and Spector. The best of their novels, in my opinion. I read this years ago, and boy was it a great read! If I hadn't had interruptions, I would have read through it in one sitting -- keeps you wondering what's going to happen next. I even bought their soundtrack to it. (Yes, there is a soundtrack for the BOOK.)
This book sets the hook in your mouth from the start and then never lets up, ratcheting up the tension and horror until you think it can't get any more intense. Then it shreads that barrier in a shower of blood and gristle.
I lost 3 paperback copies of this one by loaning it out to everyone i met, over and over......and it was worth it, just to get this masterpiece in front of more people.
What a waste of time! I LOVE science fiction. Love the weird stuff, the (early) Stephan King, Robert McCammon, Hugh Howey stuff, so when I saw some reviewers on here comparing this with that kind of stuff - even going as far as comparing it to one of my all-time-favorites "Swan Song" I gave it a shot. They have GOT to be kidding!! This book is pure garbage. There is no plot. I don't want give anything away for those of you who may still attempt to read this mess; BUT, It's worse than a bad 80's horror flick. Because of all the reviews, and because I hate to give up on anything, I kept reading hoping it would get better. It didn't. It offers NOTHING but a VERY LONG DRAAWWNN-OOUT, far-fetched, unimaginative story with boring characters. I've never read anything by this author before, and I'll never buy another book by him again. It almost seemed like it was written by a sixth-grader who watched too many bad horror movies. Don't waste your time with this one. If you like post-apocalyptic fiction and haven't read "Swan Song" by Robert McCammon yet - you may want to try that one out.
On a separate note There were also a lot of problems with the version of this book. The font-sizing and consistency was weird from page to page. Went from very large to very small print again. Then in some places high and low letters within the same word that should have all been on one line.
This book effed me up. I read it for the first time as a teen, and upon rereading it, I was still emotionally impacted. This book will make you want to recycle. It'll make you mad that Trump is gutting the EPA
Starts out great! It had all the elements to be a highly possible nightmare, with bad guys in abundance, toxic wastes, and the good guys. After the first few chapters, the story line became muddled and bogged down. I found the book getting worse as I struggled on, and finally quit reading about halfway through. Sorry, but I found the terror, not terrifying or even remotely believable. I may have missed something, so some day when I have nothing to read, I may try it again.
I bought this book to read before the television series is broadcast. First off let me note that I am a senior citizen and a former "Green Beret" with loads of combat experience and over 1,000 parachute jumps. I don't scare easily. That stated, let me note first off that this book scared the bejabbers out of me and if the TV series is only half as frightening - off goes the TV on on comes the lights. Mr. King should read this work before he attempts another horror story. He could learn something here. Buy this book but not before you install brighter light bulbs throughout the house. Would I read more works by this author - hmmmm!!?? Probably but only at the beach in bright sunlight with lots of people around me.
Didn't give you a character to fully connect, empathize so when The End was happening, it didn't emotionally affect me. All was descriptive horror, disjointed and hopeless.
Also bugged me that the authors,when writing about the Sunday morning religious rituals, included Seventh Day Adventists as a Sunday meeting congregation. My father was a Jaycee and active members are all under 40 yrs of age; whereas, the authors described 50+ year old good ole boys participating in the club.
Overall, the story paints a horrific end to mankind. Could have made it more wrenching if the reader was allowed to really connect to one of the characters.
I read the one and two-star reviews and should have been warned off, but I bought the book anyway. Someone described it as "splatterpunk" and that's as good a term as any.
The premise was intriguing enough, with some genuinely scary images, e.g. the man who's about to be engulfed by the sentient waste seeing the towering column of river water, containing hundreds of fish, each one staring at him with malevolence and newfound intelligence.
However, it was hard to care about most of the characters. The brain-rotted hayseeds who first meet the monster are all too believable, and then we get to Gary, Kirk, and Micki. Kirk may have been a yuppie slimeball, but he actually achieved a bit of nobility in his doomed, futile attempt to warn the town. And the authors couldn't even give him a peaceful death, instead subjecting the poor bugger to an agonized, ignominious end. Gary was hard to like and got off far too easily. Micki's magicks and spirit doors were just too much. I could believe the monstrous transformation of Boonie and Drew more easily than that Micki was able to get Gary past the man-eating vines.
Far too many one-sentence paragraphs like
"And that was how he sealed his fate."
I kinda liked "toddler bouillabaisse," because I don't like toddlers.
If this book was written 20 years ago, literature is in more trouble than I thought. I'm no blushing flower, but the constant, relentless profanity was almost enough to make me just stop reading, This isn't the first book I've read where every other word is f___ or s___, and it won't be the last. How I wish authors would just tell their stories without showing us how "EDGY" they are.
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