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5.0 out of 5 stars You've never seen zombies like these!, Mar 25 2004

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This review is from: The Rising (Mass Market Paperback)

I won't say Brian Keene's novel "The Rising" is a perfect horror novel; it has its flaws, to be sure. However, rivetting until the end, it is definitely one of the best horror novels (and possibly the best zombie novel) I have read in a long time.

The plot:
It's an accident, really. A device designed to create black holes opens up a portal to another reality--Hell, if you will. When we die, and our life forces depart our bodies, spirits from this other reality come back and inhabit them...intent on making corpses for more of their brethren to come through.

"The Rising" follows four primary people: Jim Thurmond, who's searching for his son; the Reverend Martin, who hears of Jim's plight and dedicates himself to helping the man; Baker, a scientist who had a lot to do with the catastrophe that has happened, and who now wishes to survive long enough to make ammends; and Frankie, a former prostitute running not only from the zombies, but from her drug addiction as well...

As their journeys intersect each other, these four individuals will have to face the bitter truth: though many people have survived the zombies so far, sometimes the walking dead aren't half as evil as the living...

"The Rising" by Brian Keene is spectacular. Maybe it's ripping off "Day of the Dead;" personally, I don't care. All I care about is that these zombies are like none you've seen before, and Keene is one hell of a writer. Though he may not be the next Stephen King (he lacks King's commercial appeal), Keene is, like many authors published by Leisure Horror, a rare and dignified talent.

Buy "The Rising," but on two conditions: 1, you have to be a true horror fan; and 2, you have to be willing to have your socks scared right off your feet!

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4 of 6 people found the following review helpful

1.0 out of 5 stars A disappointment, Mar 28 2004

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"torzjohnson" (Wingdale, NY United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: The Rising (Mass Market Paperback)

After reading all the glowing reviews on this page I thought I was in for a real treat. Instead I got a plodding, dull, lackluster waste of time. The characters might as well have been stick figures, from the stereotypical hillbilly murderers to the stereotypical bloodthirsty military left-overs. The whole thing ham-handedly staggers to an unsatisfying non-climax that was clearly slapped together to sucker you in to buying the sequel. Frankly I don't care enough about the characters to buy the sequel only to find out if it ended the way it properly should have. If I could give this book less than one star, I would. By all means, save your money and go out and get your hands on "The Dead" by Mark Rogers. It is everything this book was not - in other words, a great read.

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3.0 out of 5 stars Not my type of zombies but..., July 14 2010

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While this book contains a version of zombie that I don't like in fiction, such as thinking zombies, and animal zombies, I will credit the author with a good storyline and writing.

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