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An aspect of the book that I didn't expect was the humour, although at times I'm not sure if the humour was intentional or not. There was a chapter in particular about a Catholic woman who was supposedly sex-crazed and I was laughing the whole way through - she actually asked a priest to say a prayer for her in mass so that she could achieve some type of special orgasm. One of the highlights of the book for me! Some humour amongst all the torn-off limbs and eaten faces.
Lots of gory action from flesh getting ripped apart and thousands of humans getting eat. Yeah, don’t go into this book if you don’t like some gore and more. If you like your horror with scary creatures, this might be a fun book for you to read. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH is a 1971 children's book by Robert C. O'Brien. the story was adapted for film in 1982 as The Secret of NIMH. The epilogue indicates that one female rat survived the purge by being trapped in the basement of a grocery shop. There, it gives birth to a new litter, including a new white two-headed rat. Normally she would move her family, but Timothy would not survive the cold trip to their summer home. Kayleigh had woken up in smoke, fire and blood, in a plundered stronghold, lying among the corpses of his adoptive parents and siblings. Dragging himself across the corpse-strewn courtyard, he came across Reef .The latter is the subject of Robert Sullivan’s eye opening book about the pest everyone loves to hate.
In addition, the author is at pains to tell us that he does not like rats and thinks they're disgusting. He exhibits a strange squeamishness, even after spending many hours watching rats. As someone who does feel a level of compassion and interest in rats as animals, I found his attitude tiresome. He seemed concerned that the audience might actually think he liked his subjects.
Another man sat rigid in his seat, eyes still on the screen as though watching the film, hands clenching the seat arms. A rat sat in his lap gnawing a hole into his stomach.
Toward the end of the book, Sullivan observes that rats in fact, are not unlike human’s in many ways in that: Nope, Ratatouille rat infestation was almost cute. This is much worse! Let me put it this way. If you are on the streets, You'd have a better chance surviving a Zombie apocalypse than this rat invasion! Not only they can devour you in minutes, a bite from these mutant bastards will infect and kill you within 24 hours! It’s treacherous terrain, but in Sands we have an incomparable guide who finds a kind of redemption on every road of the human experience, though never at the expense of responsibility or truth. The outcome is a feat of exhilarating storytelling – gripping, gratifying and morally robust. Before we start, we’ll cover the basics. The Rats are a group of teenage outlaws who were victims of Nilfgaard’s war to conquer the Continent, and their traumatic experiences numbed their empathy. Now they are running around, stealing and killing to their hearts’ desire.
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But it was entertaining and the rats were sweet, I've got the second in the rats story and I'll be on it soon.
Herbert became inspired to write The Rats in early 1972, while watching Tod Browning's Dracula; specifically, after seeing the scene in which Renfield describes his recurring nightmare about hordes of rats. Linking the film to childhood memories he had of rats in London's East End. Rats are notorious stowaways that migrated around the world along with humans; today they live wherever Homo sapiens are found, on every continent except Antarctica. Rats are not just an inescapable feature of city living: In some ecosystems, particularly on islands, the invasive arrivals have wreaked havoc on bird and reptile populations by devouring eggs and young, driving many species to extinction. Diet and habitatAlthough I said I would have enjoyed this in middleschool, I can't recommend it to anyone younger than sixteen (and only then if they are mature for their age) because of how absurdly graphic the violence is. It is the type of indulgent imagery that appeals most to younger individuals because it makes them feel more adult to be reading such things, but isn't good for them to read. When you’ve lived in a cage, you can’t bear not to run, even if what you’re running towards is an illusion.” Sands is unflinching, though, where Horst cannot be. He pursues the details and we are left with the unsettling, discordant portrait of a man who is conceivably a passionate husband and devoted father, but irrefutably a war criminal with blood, including that of Sands’s own family members, on his hands. Herbert though was never what I would call a literary author, his writing was always direct and to the point. Very much a blunt trauma style rather than surgical precision. What you get is some fine, scary stuff that I think is a thrill to read playing as it does on our primal fears. I wasn't sure on the time period. I thought maybe it was set around the time the book was written, but then looking at the story of Mary I thought that was set before the 70's so this confused me a bit and I would have liked that set.
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