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reread listening to the audiobook and it was so engaging i finished it in 2 sittings. the way the story unfolds seems so believable and so terrifying.
My faith in Brian Keene has returned.
A few years back, I caught a bit of this book at one of Keene's readings and I just recently got around to picking it up. I should not have waited.
The story is that it begins to rain one day all over the planet and never stops. The concept is that if a day of rain brings earthworms out, 40 days will bring out some really big earthworms and more.
Although it gets silly in a few places, I still found this to be an enjoyable, well-written story with a lot of in ...more
A few years back, I caught a bit of this book at one of Keene's readings and I just recently got around to picking it up. I should not have waited.
The story is that it begins to rain one day all over the planet and never stops. The concept is that if a day of rain brings earthworms out, 40 days will bring out some really big earthworms and more.
Although it gets silly in a few places, I still found this to be an enjoyable, well-written story with a lot of in ...more
An interesting book that I've reread many times. Sure there are better books to repay visits too, but whenever it's really rainy and gray out, I kind of always want to visit this book again.
Brian Keene is an author that is unpredictably predictable if that makes any sense: he usually has quirky narrators/protagonists (this one is an 80 year old widower living on a mountain top in West Virginia) against ridiculous odds--in this one, a completely flooded and ruined world, house sized worms, skysc ...more
Brian Keene is an author that is unpredictably predictable if that makes any sense: he usually has quirky narrators/protagonists (this one is an 80 year old widower living on a mountain top in West Virginia) against ridiculous odds--in this one, a completely flooded and ruined world, house sized worms, skysc ...more
I liked this book. It was a post-apocalyptic story where the world has flooded due to endless rain and giant earthworms surfaced to wreak havoc on the few remaining inhabitants. The book is split into three parts. Part I is the first person account of an old dude with a bad nicotine habit who believes he is the last remaining survivor until his best friend and neighbor finds him. The Conqueror Worms has a classic B-movie horror vibe until Part II, when the old dudes run into more survivors and w
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Ha Ha! This was awesome! Right up my alley.
Fast read. Action packed. I enjoyed the old mans method of telling the story. As the saying goes: "there are more things in heaven and earth...."
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