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Blood Crazy

Simon Clark

Why we're reading this: Saturday is a normal day. People go shopping. To the movies. Everything is just as it should be. But not …more
[close] Saturday is a normal day. People go shopping. To the movies. Everything is just as it should be. But not for long. By Sunday, civilization is in ruins. Adults have become murderously insane. One by one they become infected with a crazed, uncontrollable urge to slaughter the young—even their own children. Especially their own children.

Will this be the way the world ends, in waves of madness and carnage? What will be left of our world as we know it? And who, if anyone, will survive? Terror follows terror in this apocalyptic nightmare vision by one of the most powerful talents in modern horror fiction. Prepare yourself for mankind s final days of fear.

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Jan 21, 2010 Colleen rated it really liked it

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This book came out over 10 years before Cell and I really wonder if Stephen King read it before writing that one. Very very similar, even down to the basic plot and the major metaphor of the crazies equaling birds, and "flocking." Or maybe King was playing a subtle homage to Simon Clark--would not be surprised if that was the case.

A book I read in one giant session because I could not put it down. I've decided that Clark is one of those writers that spectacularly smashes it out of the park or c This book came out over 10 years before Cell and I really wonder if Stephen King read it before writing that one. Very very similar, even down to the basic plot and the major metaphor of the crazies equaling birds, and "flocking." Or maybe King was playing a subtle homage to Simon Clark--would not be surprised if that was the case.

A book I read in one giant session because I could not put it down. I've decided that Clark is one of those writers that spectacularly smashes it out of the park or completely misses (I hated Rage of Echoes--which I read first--and didn't realize that awful awful book was him until I was looking for more of his books to read).

Very good apocalyptic book! One day all the adults across the world snap and are compelled to murder their children, or anyone under the age of 19. Has a lot of what I now see as standard Clark themes (this was his second book)--the reluctant predestined hero; the psychotic thug who isn't quite as bad as he appears; plucky female sidekick; hordes of nigh-unstoppable monsters and insane, evil survivors.

Occasionally Clark overthinks things. I sort of grew tired of the many, many pages of random people's hypotheses of what happened--evolution? consumption? aliens? nerve gas or something in the water? religion? I think vast chunks of that could have been cut out. Also am a little confused on the main character's long journey back home. Still unclear on how he wound up so far away.

Other thing is that for the most part he didn't do a very good job of fleshing out secondary characters. Except for how they die...so reading about the gruesome account of so-and-so's terrible death didn't have much meaning to me because I was never really attached to them. Would have been better if he had cut out like 40 or 50 pages of speculation and replaced all that with paragraphs describing or with more happy interactions of all the doomed kids.

But these are just minor improvements that could be made. Will definitely read again some rainy day and buy copies to gift to people.

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Dec 12, 2007 Thee_ron_clark rated it it was amazing

Shelves: zombies

Much like 28 Days Later and other films, zombie fans argue whether some antagonists are zombies are not. I've found it to be the same in literature and this is one of the novels that people can certainly argue about because the antagonists are certainly not the living dead, but the book has an outbreak that is quite similar to that of a zombie epidemic. In Blood Crazy, all the adults in the world turn into murderous lunatics set on a path to first murder their own children and then to aid other ...more

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