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Post by killercrab on Jun 17, 2013 14:55:22 GMT
153 pages - you can relax. KC
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Post by erebus on Jun 17, 2013 18:37:37 GMT
Ah !. Thank You Mr Crab
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drauch
Crab On The Rampage
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Post by drauch on Jul 30, 2021 17:26:06 GMT
Finished this up last night. Started off a rollicking good time, spider mayhem abound and baby-eating, but towards the middle it kind of fizzled out for me. Small-scale spider attacks morphed into full-scale London takeover but with little description, just sort of a forward "and then they went to London and people were scared". Many potential chaotic scenarios squandered, with the eventual deus ex machina solution that's easily resolved in the last chapter, even a silly paragraph prologue afterwards. This was my first Lewis, and as mentioned earlier in the thread, it does seem like he was finding his footing. I certainly won't give up on him yet, as I have a few more titles in the collection. A minor, more humorous gripe, but I can't believe in his research he correctly identified a real middle-eastern spider family by its scientific name, yet insists on calling them insects throughout the book! I don't think arachnid was mentioned once. Now, granted, I do enjoy the amateur entomology, but I figured most know the distinction between an insect and a spider. I forgive the colloquial "bug", but for shame!
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Post by 𝘗rincess 𝘵uvstarr on Jul 30, 2021 17:39:09 GMT
Finished this up last night. Started off a rollicking good time, spider mayhem abound and baby-eating, but towards the middle it kind of fizzled out for me. Small-scale spider attacks morphed into full-scale London takeover but with little description, just sort of a forward "and then they went to London and people were scared". Many potential chaotic scenarios squandered, with the eventual deus ex machina solution that's easily resolved in the last chapter, even a silly paragraph prologue afterwards. This was my first Lewis, and as mentioned earlier in the thread, it does seem like he was finding his footing. I certainly won't give up on him yet, as I have a few more titles in the collection. A minor, more humorous gripe, but I can't believe in his research he correctly identified a real middle-eastern spider family by its scientific name, yet insists on calling them insects throughout the book! I don't think arachnid was mentioned once. Now, granted, I do enjoy the amateur entomology, but I figured most know the distinction between an insect and a spider. I forgive the colloquial "bug", but for shame! Please write a guide to this for horror writers. Thank you. When I find a spider in the bathroom I always make a man remove it. But not kill it. And only remove it when I'm fully dressed or in another room. I don't know why I am telling you this.
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