false http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1255573295m/6065215.jpg 6065215 18 The visionary creator of the Academy Award-winning <i>Pan's Labyrinth</i> and a Hammett Award-winning author bring their imaginations to this bold, epic novel about a horrifying battle between man and vampire that threatens all humanity. It is the first installment in a thrilling trilogy and an extraordinary international publishing event. </p> <p> <i>The Strain</i> </p> <p> They have always been here. Vampires. In secret and in darkness. Waiting. Now their time has come. </p> <p> In one week, Manhattan will be gone. In one month, the country. </p> <p> In two months—the world. A Boeing 777 arrives at JFK and is on its way across the tarmac, when it suddenly stops dead. All window shades are pulled down. All lights are out. All communication channels have gone quiet. Crews on the ground are lost for answers, but an alert goes out to the CDC. Dr. Eph Goodweather, head of their Canary project, a rapid-response team that investigates biological threats, gets the call and boards the plane. What he finds makes his blood run cold. </p> <p> In a pawnshop in Spanish Harlem, a former professor and survivor of the Holocaust named Abraham Setrakian knows something is happening. And he knows the time has come, that a war is brewing . . . </p> <p> So begins a battle of mammoth proportions as the vampiric virus that has infected New York begins to spill out into the streets. Eph, who is joined by Setrakian and a motley crew of fighters, must now find a way to stop the contagion and save his city—a city that includes his wife and son—before it is too late. 6241525 book 2 6 2009 The Strain (The Strain Trilogy, Book 1) total:1788|5:329|4:713|3:516|2:186|1:44| 1788 6461 3559 621 3 9 false false Mon Nov 02 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Tue Oct 27 19:56:12 -0700 2009 Mon Nov 02 07:04:51 -0800 2009 more...]]> 3 5 false true Sun Feb 08 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Sun Feb 08 18:26:37 -0800 2009 Sun Feb 08 19:31:34 -0800 2009 'Salem's Lot and the first third of The Stand, with liberal borrowings from Bram Stoker's Dracula. The back half in particular becomes a string of violent set-pieces depicting the rapidity with wh...more...]]> 4 1 false false Sat Jul 04 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Wed Jun 03 10:14:43 -0700 2009 Thu Aug 27 08:09:12 -0700 2009 more...]]> 5 3 false false Sat Feb 21 13:56:01 -0800 2009 Thu May 28 18:29:25 -0700 2009 more...]]> 4 2 false false Wed Jul 15 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Tue Jul 14 13:44:25 -0700 2009 Thu Jul 16 12:05:48 -0700 2009 more...]]> 3 0 false false Sat Nov 14 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Wed Nov 18 19:24:30 -0800 2009 Wed Nov 18 19:40:02 -0800 2009 more...]]> 3 0 false false Fri Oct 02 20:04:04 -0700 2009 Fri Oct 02 20:14:02 -0700 2009 Other parts of the novel however, could use more work. The writing was very clunky at times, themes are touched upon but never followed thro...more...]]> 3 0 false false Wed May 06 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Wed Sep 23 15:14:58 -0700 2009 Wed Sep 23 15:14:58 -0700 2009 more...]]> 2 8 false false Tue Aug 25 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Tue Aug 25 19:53:42 -0700 2009 Tue Aug 25 20:30:18 -0700 2009 The Strain Is a Disappointment: Or, 4 Reasons Why Twilight Is a Better Book than The Strain

I confess that I am a newcomer to vampire fiction. It was the buzz surrounding Meyer's Twilight that dragged me into the genre and I found myself pleasantly piqued to see what else it had to offer....more...]]> 4 0 false false Tue Jul 07 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sun Jul 26 07:09:19 -0700 2009 Sun Jul 26 07:09:58 -0700 2009 more...]]> 4 0 false false Sun Jul 19 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Tue Jul 21 22:02:03 -0700 2009 Tue Jul 21 22:02:40 -0700 2009
The tale starts out with young boy listening to his grandmother tell him a spooky story about a giant. This giant, Sardu, takes on larger than life proportions in the...more...]]> 2 5 false true Sun Jul 19 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Tue Jul 21 07:06:14 -0700 2009 Tue Jul 21 07:29:07 -0700 2009 more...]]> 3 4 false false Mon Jun 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Thu Jul 16 10:06:19 -0700 2009 Thu Jul 16 10:26:20 -0700 2009 more...]]> 1 1 false true Sun Jul 12 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sun Jul 12 11:04:22 -0700 2009 Sun Jul 12 11:28:15 -0700 2009 more...]]> 1 8 false false Sat Jun 27 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sat Jun 27 05:21:06 -0700 2009 Sat Jun 27 05:34:57 -0700 2009 .3 more...]]> 4 0 false false Wed Jun 03 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Fri Jun 26 12:55:19 -0700 2009 Fri Jun 26 13:05:07 -0700 2009 1 ...more...]]> 3 5 false false Fri Jun 05 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Fri Jun 05 20:27:47 -0700 2009 Fri Jun 05 20:40:54 -0700 2009
on the upside, I was generally impressed with the horror of the familiar that's going on here. as the greater new york area is infected wi...more...]]> 4 2 false false Wed Apr 01 15:52:52 -0700 2009 Fri Apr 03 12:39:36 -0700 2009 1
These vampires are far from sexy, but the turning and the blood sucking and the primal nature of them is not what makes this book so interesting. I was n...more...]]> 1 0 false false Tue Oct 06 15:24:04 -0700 2009 Thu Oct 08 14:27:05 -0700 2009 more...]]> 3 0 false true Mon Oct 26 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sat Oct 24 15:51:52 -0700 2009 Sat Oct 24 15:51:52 -0700 2009
I spent the majority of this book completely freaked out. Del Toro and Hogan know how to build suspense, and keep it climbing, despite the fact that readers know that person is going to be attacked by a vampire, or that there's a vamp...more...]]> http://www.goodreads.com/book_link/follow/8?book_id=6065215