Moon

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The opening chapters to Moon are fairly slowly paced, it takes its time and has no problem keeping the mystery and main themes of the book hidden for a while. Once things get going and the cards slowly began to reveal themselves I was hooked, The main idea here being a logical man finding himself to possess a power that links his mind to that of a murderer is cool and had me set for cat and mouse thriller, sadly it doesn't pan out that way. He fled from the terrors of his past. Finding refuge in the quietness of the island. And for a time he lived in peace. Until the 'sightings' began. Visions of horror seeping into his mind like poisonous tendrils. Violent acts that were hideously macabre, the thoughts became intense. But it’s not. Once again, the psychic visions are occurring. Once again, he’s made a connection with the mind of a vicious murderer. When this happened before, Childes was able to convince a police detective that he was for real, and together they caught the killer. The visions and the stress they caused were the cause of his marriage collapsing. This time, not only is he seeing what the murderer is doing, but the killer is aware of Childes, too. And he wants to hurt him. He is making his way closer and closer to Childes, hurting the people he cares about.

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I always have loved British humor, having grown up with the likes of Monty Python and Benny Hill, and have only recently discovered that their horror is wonderful as well. I guess it was bound to happen. James Herbert was perhaps the best known modern British horror authors, and I can see why!

This book is published 40 years ago and certain things may appear a bit outdated. If you try very, very hard to pay attention to that. The Fog is so well written that most people won't care or pay attention to the outdated parts. In the real world, people face natural disasters all the time - the news is full of them - and this book recreates some of that helplessness in facing such force and being able to do nothing about it. But this book gives it a twist - there is a deadly purpose behind every event, a sub-conscious force working to change the world. And that's what's so scary. What if all these disasters we watch on the TV are not so random?

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This had a fairly similar style to the Rats, in the sense of certain characters being introduced and then never being referred to again, but it wasn't as gripping as the Rats, and the characters in general were not memorable or likeable either, though Holman did gradually grow on me. The main character is basically a guy who teaches computing to schoolkids and who ends up teaching at a girl’s school on an island as he tries to get away from his past. He has some psychic powers, despite the fact that he doesn’t really believe in them, and he finds himself witnessing all sorts of horrible things, including some brutal killings. Finally (to let out my OCD side a bit), typos and other errors were scarce, unlike in so many works published today. Nevertheless, you do get oddities like: 'uneaven pace' (p. 159), 'load and clear' (for ' loud and clear' [p. 207]), the admittedly common enough 'comprised of' (p. 266) and '...he pulled farther [sic] towards him until their bodies touched' (p. 190) - surely, he meant 'closer'? I would still mildly recommend this book as the concept and storyline itself is interesting and there is a lot of entertainment within the book, but a lot of filler, with a lot of scientific discussions which get dragged out, I wanted to like this more than I did, but I will still give Herbert the benefit of the doubt and will look through his other books, because The Rats, and it's follow up Lair, prove his excellent talents, as for this, it was just quite good, but average in parts, mild recommendation.Portent", published in 1992, is truly a book years ahead of its time in relation to climate change and it's impacts on the environment and the current challenges facing many countries. Things being discussed and implemented today (renewable energy sources, government rebates for installing solar panels, a price on carbon emissions, hybrid/electric cars) were all commonplace in the Britain of Herbert's "Portent".