And, for the living, the horrors that fed and multiplied in the darkness of the night became more terrible with the dawn Get A Copy.
Paperback , pages. Published April by Futura first published More Details Original Title. Other Editions 4. Friend Reviews. To see what your friends thought of this book, please sign up. To ask other readers questions about Worms , please sign up. Lists with This Book. Community Reviews. Showing Average rating 3. Rating details. More filters. Sort order. Start your review of Worms. What can I say? This is not your normal B-movie creature feature! It is more well written than most and it contains elements of guilt and psychological horror as well.
I enjoyed the heck out of it! Hildebrand and his harridan of a wife take a badly needed vacation together, in a more quiet destination than his wife would have preferred. She is unhappy about that and never misses a chance to remind him of that fact.
In the quiet town, Mr. Hildebrand feels at home, accepted even, while his wife just complains and complains. How will he deal with her? Will they be able to enjoy this vacation together or will this be the final straw in their marriage? You'll have to read this to find out! I said above that this is more well written than most creature features for a few reasons.
Its pacing is much slower than the James Herbert or Guy N. Smith novels of the time, and it's definitely much slower than the pacing of today's novels by Hunter Shea and the like. Another reason this differs from most other novels of its kind is because of the time we spend inside Mr. Hildebrand's head. Told in the first person, we're right there to see why he does certain things, and I admit it, I actually agreed with some of them!
We shouldn't, but we do, or at least I did. The psychological horror that results from his actions, as well as the guilt he feels over them, adds another layer to this tale not normally found in stories of this type. In addition, there were some truly gross-out moments that made me laugh out loud with glee!
GLEE, I say! Lastly, as the final portions of the story unfolded a few events occurred that made me look back at clues I had previously overlooked. I realized then how neatly this entire story fit together, like an intricate jigsaw puzzle where all the pieces were perfectly cut. There are scenes in WORMS that play out just as a film would, several of them in fact , and the novel feels like it's built around those scenes and grows outwardly from them. WORMS was originally written back in , the era when I first got into and began to love the horror genre.
Somehow this book escaped my attentions back then, and to be honest? I might have been too young at that time to appreciate this intimate look into a man's head.
However, I'm sure I would have appreciated the vivid writing style and film-like quality of it. Now I'm old enough to appreciate ALL the wonderful things about this novel and I'm glad that Valancourt Books has brought it back from sure death so it can be enjoyed once again.
Highly recommended! This is it. View all 14 comments. Sep 18, Jack Tripper rated it really liked it Shelves: horror. Though this may seem like one of your typical "British nasties" of the time, it's much more reserved, and more eloquently written than, say, James Herbert's Rats trilogy or Guy N.
Smith's Crabs novels. The horror here is very understated for a good chunk, but of course the shit does hit the fan eventually, i. He sees the disgusting things everywhere, and is starting to wonder if his past evil deeds are coming back to haunt him, especially once he learns about the ancient religious idea of "the worms of hell" from the local vicar, worms that relentlessly pursue the dead. But perhaps they pursue the living as well when need be? They certainly seem to be after him.
Even though the chills are somewhat few and far between for much of Worms , the prose is engaging, and I sympathized with the main character even though he's a selfish, murderous asshole. He's a likable selfish, murderous asshole, which made his story much more palatable, especially considering the story is all told in first-person. And I loved the ambiguity relating to the worms themselves. Are they really tormenting him, or are they just a natural part of his new environment, and his imagination is running loose?
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Until Worms Armageddon turned up, that is. Getting this review written has proven difficult because she just won't stop playing the damn thing. I've had to wait till she's asleep, and if I type too loud she'll probably get up and demand another go. It's like living with a drug addict or something. If you're not familiar with the Worms phenomenon, it's a deceptively simple game in which two or more teams of cute cartoon maggots fire weapons at each other in an attempt to wipe out the opposing team.
It's turn-based; that is, first you take a shot at one of your girlfriend's worms, then one of hers takes a shot at one of yours. You can't move or shoot back during the other player's go, and this is one of the things that makes the game so tense and compelling. The other is the unpredictable nature of the armoury you're given: bazooka shells which get buffeted by the wind, grenades which ricochet in unforeseen ways, and downright ridiculous weapons such as exploding old ladies and flying sheep.
Murphy's Law comes to the fore time and time again during a round of Worms, with a fair proportion of the fatalities occurring by accident hey - just like a real war. To a sniffy ponce it might look like a 'little game', but it's a damn sight more impressive than most of the blockbusters out there. In fact it's hard to convey just how intrinsically satisfying it is to play - it's as moreish as popping your way through a huge sheet of bubble wrap.
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You can say goodbye to your social life, basically. What else? Well, if you've already got Worms 2 you might want to 'try before you buy'. The addition of WormNet the online play system is a big plus, but otherwise many of the changes in Worms Armageddon are cosmetic it does look a lot nicer, mind.
If you've never played a Worms game before, or you've only tried the first one, you don't have anything to lose. And before we go, a quick note about Worms Armageddorts superb visuals: this is one of the coolest looking games ever. The design is ingenious, the animation dazzling. The worms are fantastic - full of character and humour - and should really be starring in their own TV cartoon series. Team 17's graphics department deserve a gigantic sack of awards.
Actually, make that two sacks. Each one twice the size of Mount Kilimanjaro. One of the many things the game enables you to tinker with is the landscape itself - you can ask the computer to randomly generate one to your specifications, or pick up your mouse and design it yourself. If you're poncy enough to have a graphics tablet, so much the better; you can draw a forest of great big penlses and then laugh yourself III as the worms hop all over them. If you're that childish, that is. Worms Armageddon enables you to customise your team In all kinds of inconsequential but amusing ways.
You can choose a name for each worm, for example, leading to endless hilarity as Posh Spice lobs a grenade at Dale Winton and Big Balls unloads a shotgun into Wet Arse's face.
The worms natter continually throughout each round, and their standard chirpy English voices can be replaced by different languages and dialects. There are cockney wide boys, grim Yorkshlremen, US sports commentators, worms who speak in German, Dutch, French, and so on. Fair enough. But a few of the speech banks on offer left us feeling a little uncomfortable. Dragon eyes episode 2 8. Dragon eyes episode 3 9. Elven chronicles Final fantasy 3 Flaming expedition Greyeyed Quest for aliace 2 Strela spravedlivosti Tenobu ayames tale 3d Galaxy on fire 3d Heroes lore new mod
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