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Original Title: | Infected |
ISBN: | 0307406105 (ISBN13: 9780307406101) |
Edition Language: | English |
Series: | Infected #1 |
Scott Sigler
Hardcover | Pages: 342 pages Rating: 3.84 | 18897 Users | 1642 Reviews
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Title | : | Infected (Infected #1) |
Author | : | Scott Sigler |
Book Format | : | Hardcover |
Book Edition | : | First Edition |
Pages | : | Pages: 342 pages |
Published | : | April 1st 2008 by Crown (first published 2008) |
Categories | : | Horror. Science Fiction. Fiction. Thriller. Zombies |
Narration Conducive To Books Infected (Infected #1)
Across America a mysterious disease is turning ordinary people into raving, paranoid murderers who inflict brutal horrors on strangers, themselves, and even their own families.Working under the government’s shroud of secrecy, CIA operative Dew Phillips crisscrosses the country trying in vain to capture a live victim. With only decomposing corpses for clues, CDC epidemiologist Margaret Montoya races to analyze the science behind this deadly contagion. She discovers that these killers all have one thing in common – they’ve been contaminated by a bioengineered parasite, shaped by a complexity far beyond the limits of known science.
Meanwhile Perry Dawsey – a hulking former football star now resigned to life as a cubicle-bound desk jockey – awakens one morning to find several mysterious welts growing on his body. Soon Perry finds himself acting and thinking strangely, hearing voices . . . he is infected.
The fate of the human race may well depend on the bloody war Perry must wage with his own body, because the parasites want something from him, something that goes beyond mere murder.
Rating Containing Books Infected (Infected #1)
Ratings: 3.84 From 18897 Users | 1642 ReviewsCriticize Containing Books Infected (Infected #1)
Well....humm, this review is going to be a little mixed. First I gave it 2 stars, but I think I'm going to at least try the next book in the series. Now, why the rating and why try the next book?Well, the idea behind the book is interesting. As movie goers and readers already know. For example (view spoiler)[ The Puppet Masters, Invasion of the Body Snatchers, the movie Alien...and many, many more. (hide spoiler)] The book was interesting enough that I found I wanted to see how the writer workedExtremely gory, the main character is one tough a..hole. My stomach actually churned a few times.
4.5 stars. This was an excellent sci-fi/horror that begs to be adapted into a David Cronenberg film (with good old fashioned special effects, none of that CGI crap.) I listened to the audio version narrated by the author as a free podcast download from iTunes. The production quality was top-notch and I'm looking forward to the sequel.
My entry into the genius world of Scott Sigler. The guy knows how to write. And this story of an "inner invasion" kept me on the edge of my seat. Sigler's books are not for the squeamish, nor the kiddies. Since that time I have enjoyed numerous novels and short stories by this new media master of the macabre. But Infected will always have a special place in my heart. And my kidneys. And my leg...
5 StarsNot sure where to begin, but one place I can start.... the gore. I have read bloody things before; but the mutilation even made me wince; and that is saying something. This book is about infection gone astray, awry, ballistic, crazy, on acid, on uppers, on downers, on some real -ish. See there are these minute "seedlings"...and they get in your system; once there...bad things start to happen. This book is not for the squeamish, so tread lightly. It is, however, perfect for horror/sci-fi
What a weird, violent and bloody novel. It wasn't my kind of horror novel, and I didn't like the characters in it, or the author's narrating voice at all. But for some reason, I continued to listen to the podcast form of the audiobook throughout the entire novel. I kind of wanted to know if these infections were alien in nature (which was my guess from the beginning, not knowing anything about the novel before reading it), or man-made. Well you find out near the end, which helped. But like I
This book did nothing for me. If you're going to give me action, then give me action I can believe and not have to stop every other page and question what I'm reading. If you're going to give me violence and gore (and be warned, there is a lot of violence and gore here) then give me violence and gore I can believe and not something just for the sake of writing something violent.The concept of alien spores growing in humans was easier for me to swallow than anything else in this story and when it
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