Avail Yourself Garden Of Evil Written And Illustrated By Graham Masterton Displayed As Copy
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sitelink com/gardenofevil i finished a terrible book, never again. This is my first Jim Rook novel, and I must say, I didn't like it at all, Rook isn't a very compelling or likable protagonist and the villains are cardboard cutout cliches, Even worse, Rook and other characters do some really stupid, unbelievable things and that just made me dislike this book even more, Usually his books scare the bejesus outta me, but this one didn't, which was rather disappointing, Graham Masterton books are great! JIM ROOK MEETS PARADISE LOST
If you are familiar with the Jim Rook novels, you basically know what to expect, except that there is more farreaching destruction in this one than in the previous ones, more along the lines of Masterton's supernatural disaster novels, like BLIND PANIC and MANITOU BLOOD.
In this one, Rook's special education students are obsessed with their personal concepts of Paradise, influenced by a weird and sinister student, As usual in Rook novels, strange deaths occur people painted white and nailed to ceilings or upside down, surrounded by eight white cats, with lots ofcalls, and Rook investigates, using his own extrasensory abilities.
This is a quick read, perhaps a bit heavy on the biblical stuff, and with a rape scene that I thought was unnecessary and the forgiving attitude of the victim was definitely not appropriate.
This was ok. I think I'd have liked it better if I'd read it, as opposed to listened to the audiobook, because I could have skimmed over the bits of questionable writing such as why did we need to know precise information about completely irrelevant stuff like the colour of Jim's chinos.
And why are the students usually referred to by their full name
I'd give thisandabit, but the narration was so bad in places when it came to the accents used for the voices of the different characters not helped, I'm sure, but the terrible speech writing, it was hilarious! Gaps in logic and unrealistic
Although Masterton has several interesting ideas to explore and turns of phrase in this book, the overall effect is extremely disappointing.
DNF.
The lack of emotional nuance for the main character made me put this down, He finds a girl and eight cats nailed to a ceiling and has no reaction Really
Not a character I want to spendpages with.
Decent. This arrived through my letterbox yesterday afternoon amp I've pretty much not put it down since can't resist a Masterton that I haven't read before!
"Garden of Evil", as the title might suggest, involves the eternal battle between good amp evil with the world as we know it at risk.
It follows the same formula as other Rook novels but that's not a bad thing as I got, . . on the whole just what I expected. Now I don't expect to believe that the events portrayed in this series could ever happen in real life but that's what makes them so readable to my mind, plus the fact that there's always some folklore or mythology mentioned that has me running to Google to see if it's true legend or a figment of Masterton's wonderful imagination in this case I headed to my "Dictionary of Angels".
As ever I enjoyed this read but one or two things stop it being one of the better ones of the series for me, For a start I could have done without the rather unconvincing zombie chase amp there's a rape scene I felt was unwarranted I feel these are occurring more amp more in Masterton's work.
Similarly, the slayings here were, . . how shall I put it, . . more of the outlandish brutal sort that I've come to associate with the Katie Maguire crime series rather than the Rookish ones which, while still deliciously gory, usually have more mysticism behind them.
Overall, a good read but not a great one, The ending, however, has me wondering whether we'll hear from Rook again, I do hope so :o
Quote to Remember
", . . there can never be such a thing as a Paradise for all, because one person's Paradise always turns out to be another person's Hell, " I love the "Jim Rook" series but this book felt rushed and I didn't enjoy it as much as the other books : Jim Rook gets the shock of his life when he returns for a new semester to find something more than unpleasant in his classroom.
Jim Rook, remedial English teacher and psychic, knows its going to be a bad day, He nearly runs over someone dressed entirely in black but why did they walk right in the middle of the college driveway And who just walks off into the fog after nearly being run over But when a splash of blood appears on a questionnaire Jim realizes that his day isnt going to be merely bad: its going to be the day from hell.
Perhaps quite literally I absolutely love this book, One of my favourites in this series,
The comedy and the horror in here is so mixed up that it brings very much of various emotions to the reader,
My heart has been touched when the girl was rooks daughter, that crashed me,
Ryans paintings are also clues!! It all makes sense with each page,
Loved it. Not going to lie, my least favorite of the series,
For those who read this first, not a good example of
the entire series,
My two cents at least, Graham Masterton was born in Edinburgh in, His grandfather was Thomas Thorne Baker, the eminent scientist who invented DayGlo and was the first man to transmit news photographs by wireless, After training as a newspaper reporter, Graham went on to edit the new British mens magazine Mayfair, where he encouraged William Burroughs to develop a series of scientific and philosophical articles which eventually became Burroughs novel The Wild Boys.
At the age of, Graham was appointed executive editor of both Penthouse and Penthouse Forum magazines, At this time he started to write a bestselling series of sex how to books including How To Drive Your Man Wild In Bed which has sold overmillion copies worldwide.
His latest, Wild Sex For Graham Masterton was born in Edinburgh in, His grandfather was Thomas Thorne Baker, the eminent scientist who invented DayGlo and was the first man to transmit news photographs by wireless, After training as a newspaper reporter, Graham went on to edit the new British men's magazine Mayfair, where he encouraged William Burroughs to develop a series of scientific and philosophical articles which eventually became Burroughs' novel The Wild Boys.
At the age of, Graham was appointed executive editor of both Penthouse and Penthouse Forum magazines, At this time he started to write a bestselling series of sex 'how to' books including How To Drive Your Man Wild In Bed which has sold overmillion copies worldwide.
His latest, Wild Sex For New Lovers is published by Penguin Putnam in January,, He is a regular contributor to Cosmopolitan, Men's Health, Woman, Woman's Own and other mass market self improvement magazines, Graham Masterton's debut as a horror author began with The Manitou in, a chilling tale of a Native American medicine man reborn in the present day to exact his revenge on the white man.
It became an instant bestseller and was filmed with Tony Curtis, Susan Strasberg, Burgess Meredith, Michael Ansara, Stella Stevens and Ann Sothern, Altogether Graham has written than a hundred novels ranging from thrillers The Sweetman Curve, Ikon to disaster novels Plague, Famine to historical sagas Rich and Maiden Voyage both appeared in the New York Times bestseller list.
He has published four collections of short stories, Fortnight of Fear, Flights of Fear, Faces of Fear and Feelings of Fear, He has also written horror novels for children House of Bones, Hair Raiser and has just finished the fifth volume in a very popular series for young adults, Rook, based on the adventures of an idiosyncratic remedial English teacher in a Los Angeles community college who has the facility to see ghosts.
Since then Graham has published thanhorror novels, including Charnel House, which was awarded a Special Edgar by Mystery Writers of America Mirror, which was awarded a Silver Medal by West Coast Books and Family Portrait, an update of Oscar Wilde's tale, The Picture of Dorian Gray, which was the only non French winner of the prestigious Prix Julia Verlanger in France.
He and his wife Wiescka live in a Gothic Victorian mansion high above the River Lee in Cork, Ireland, sitelink.