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    <body><![CDATA[Highly entertaining, but lacking in quality to the point that you slog through several hundred pages by compulsion to learn of the characters' plight.  I wasn't a big fan of the physiology of the vampires--they are clearly an adaptation of Giger's Aliens with their esophageal protrusions ending in n...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/56198471">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This just isn't very good. After a promising and creepy opening, it devolves into repetitive ridiculousness. The writing is also just not good and sometimes laughable, providing such gems as this:<br/><br/>&quot;Eph too had been turned. Not from human to vampire, but from healer to slayer.&quot;<br/>...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/69583990">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I've read a lot of vampire-stuff. It's fun: I like the stories, the different mythologies, and the characters. But this book...This book had a section that just filled me with dread. Not just &quot;ew, that's awful,&quot; but the &quot;I am not going to turn off the lights, oh my god!&quot; churning...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/58298037">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[When Abraham Setrakian was just a little boy, his grandmother told him about a story of a man named Jusef Sardu. Jusef was born with a disease that left him weak and having to rely on a cane to walk. You could tell when Jusef was near as you could hear the pick-pick-pick of his cane. While out hunti...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/47072869">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[An interesting apocalypse book featuring my favorite -- vampires.  An airplane lands at JFK, begins to taxi to the gate, then stops.  The lights are out, all shades pulled down, engines are off, all communication has ended.  Crews on the ground find everyone dead.  They bring in the CDC and haul awa...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/63481034">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Confession:  vampires are actually pretty boring. I know it's crazy, but it's true.  That being said, Del Toro and Hogan actually managed to create something of interest with this novel, so much so that regardless of some imperfections and complaints, I couldn't put it down.<br/><br/>The originali...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/81516640">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Drat!  I really got into the first half of the book. It starts when a large airliner pulls off the runway. The power and electricity go off, leaving a ghostly corpse of a plane on the taxiway.  Of course, nearly everyone on the plane is dead, and it's soon discovered that something sinister was on t...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/81334217">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This book is written like a movie script, with fast changing scenes and new characters popping up all the time. It is actually not all that bad (am contemplating buying it as an Xmas gift for a 17 year old who is writing a sci-fi novel). The author's credentials as film director are quite evident. N...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/80508057">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[First let me say that this is the first horror novel in a while that gave me old fashioned chills and that there were specific scenes that were very good.<br/>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...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/73263575">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I had planned on finishing Open Your Eyes first but I mentioned that I had The Strain to a friend and was immediately guilted into reading this first so that I can hand it over. The Strain is the first in a trilogy of novels co-authored by filmmaker Guillermo del Toro and Chuck Hogan. While I am bot...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/72271832">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[<strong><em>The Strain</em> Is a Disappointment: Or, 4 Reasons Why <em>Twilight</em> Is a Better Book than <em>The Strain</em></strong><br/><br/>I confess that I am a newcomer to vampire fiction. It was the buzz surrounding Meyer's <em>Twilight</em> that dragged me into the genre and I found myself pleasantly piqued to see what else it had to offer....<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/68899420">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Director Del Toro (who won an Oscar for Pan's Labyrinth) makes a dramatic splash in his fiction debut, the first volume in a vampires vs. humanity trilogy, coauthored with Hogan (Prince of Thieves). Just as a jumbo jet on a flight from Germany to New York is touching down at JFK, something goes terr...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/64993248">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I enjoyed this book.  It is a slightly different take on the tried and true vampire tale.  This one incorporates the CDC.<br/><br/>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...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/64471764">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="64348186">
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    <body><![CDATA[A lot of the comments mirror my own issues.  Great start, mediocre middle/end.  Eph was such a cliche that I really couldn't take him seriously.  Government agent going through a tough custody battle and will do anything for his son because he loves him so much?  Really?  Top it off with an incredib...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/64348186">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Oh, how scary could it be? I mean, it's just words, right? After finishing the book and being thoroughly creeped out I remember saying those same words before reading &quot;American Psycho&quot; and also failing to not be affected. Think Salem's Lot but way scarier. And Gross. These ain't your spark...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/63727588">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I read a good review about this book but was really disappointed.  The premise is that vampires are caused by a viral strain--thus the name.  An expert from the CDC sets out to figure out how a plane landed in New York City, but by the time it reached the end of the runway, nearly everyone was dead ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/63161489">more...</a>]]></body>
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