- Mass Market Paperback: 391 pages
- Publisher: Leisure Books (2001)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 0843949023
- ISBN-13: 978-0843949025
- Product Dimensions: 17.2 x 10.7 x 2.8 cm
- Shipping Weight: 191 g
- Average Customer Review: 2.3 out of 5 stars See all reviews (13 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: #2,254,074 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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3.0 out of 5 stars
this is an evil book,
By James Kosmicki (Grand Island, NE USA) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Ambrosial Flesh (Mass Market Paperback)
As I said in the title, this book is evil. I don't mean evil in the sense of causing great harm or should be banned. I mean evil in the sense that reading it causes me great moral shivers. There's just something WRONG about what this book shows.I like horror novels, and have always felt myself relatively immune to the "grossout" or "disgust" factor. That is no longer the case. This book has shown to me, once and for all, that there are limits to what my mind can accept as understandable and tolerable. Cannibalism in and of itself has never bothered me. I've read about the "Alive" soccer team and the Donner Party plenty of times. I'm even a great fan of Jonathan Swift's "A Modest Proposal." But presented as it is in this novel, I shudder and turn away. And yet, I read the whole thing. Its prose is a bit weak at times and this is one of those "bigger than necessary typefont so we can inflate the page count" books that annoy me, but it does move forward at a rapid rate. Is it believable? NO, and why would anyone ask that of a horror novel? Is it contrived in its plot? Sure, but this is genre fiction we're talking about here. Contrived plots and stock characters are part of the appeal. I gave this book 3 stars because while I found myself disgusted by the content, that's what horror novels are supposed to do. This novel, while not especially well written, helped me discover a limitation in my thinking, and a taboo that I hadn't quite known was there. It has made me think, and good books do that.
1.0 out of 5 stars
DON'T WASTE YOUR TIME!!!,
By Linda M. Kozlowski (Lewisberry, Pa. USA) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Ambrosial Flesh (Mass Market Paperback)
This book had neither plot nor any characters that you could actually feel for or care about. You are constantly waiting for the "purpose" or the plot to thicken, wonder where are we going here? The "speech" and thought patterns of the characters are very juvenile. The Catholic background of the main character does not even relate to the nature of this book. Flesh eating habits did not gross me out but made me wonder why I even picked up a book with this title. Life is too short to waste on bad books...almost anything would be better.
3.0 out of 5 stars
This is an evil book!,
By Edmund Lau Kok Ming (Malaysia) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Ambrosial Flesh (Mass Market Paperback)
I agree with the previous reviewer. This is an evil book. Not that the plot amounts to anything. And I don't really have anything against gore myself. From a literary view, the book is weak - having a wife-killer... errr... "wife-eater" to be more exact, as a Raskolnikov-like character who later shows moments of real kindness (possible redemption?) just doesn't work. This book permeates an evil "feel" - maybe because of the presence of a very real devil in it.
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