Infected

[TheThirdLie, Houdini Mod]

Synopsis:

Across America a mysterious disease is turning ordinary people into raving, paranoid murderers who inflict brutal horrors on strangers, themselves, and even their own families.
Working under the government’s shroud of secrecy, CIA operative Dew Phillips crisscrosses the country trying in vain to capture a live victim. With only decomposing corpses for clues, CDC epidemiologist Margaret Montoya races to analyze the science behind this deadly contagion. She discovers that these killers all have one thing in common – they’ve been contaminated by a bioengineered parasite, shaped by a complexity far beyond the limits of known science.

Meanwhile Perry Dawsey – a hulking former football star now resigned to life as a cubicle-bound desk jockey – awakens one morning to find several mysterious welts growing on his body. Soon Perry finds himself acting and thinking strangely, hearing voices . . . he is infected.

The fate of the human race may well depend on the bloody war Perry must wage with his own body, because the parasites want something from him, something that goes beyond mere murder.

Zombies! It's getting closer to Halloween, this is an appropriate read. =]

[Nora aka Diva, The Diva Mod]

I'm pretty excited about this one, hope it's as good as it sounds!

[Dian, Crazy Nooooob Mod! :D]

I actually started this last night and had to put it down after just the first chapter cause if not I'd have never found a place to stop most likely. It's a very cinematic feel to it, in the sense that you can easily visualized what's going on.

[Mary]

You guys make it sound good and almost convince me to buy it. The cheapest I've seen it is in paperback for $10. I'll look around some more and see if I can convince myself to give in.

[Nora aka Diva, The Diva Mod]

at amazon you can find it used starting as low as $2.48
http://www.amazon.com/gp/offer-listin...

[Mary]

I found a free podcast. Yay. So I'll just have to make time to sit and listen. There are pdf versions too but this pod cast, as far as I can tell, was released by the author. But thanks anyway for the info.

[Nora aka Diva, The Diva Mod]

yup. it's amazing how cheap you can find books on amazon, I've gotten many a book for a penny so it's worth remembering for later. ya know :)

[Mary]

I forgot to post this at first. I'm not sure if you want it but here's the link to the podcast. (Chapters are at the bottom of the page.) Just in case you want to get a head start on the book while waiting for it to arrive in your mail.

[Nora aka Diva, The Diva Mod]

I still have two other books as well. I'm in three book clubs, so I can read them while I wait but thank you, in case I get the others done before these ones arrive :)

[Dian, Crazy Nooooob Mod! :D]

Okay can I just say that chapter 3 has to be one of the creepiest chapters ever in any book I've read. It made me want to take a shower and scrub myself raw. The author really did his homework on how invading organisms work on a cellular level but still manages to convey everything in a way that non science minded ppl could still follow. But I've taken too many science classes so it made it even creepier for me at least.

[Michelle]

Started listening to the podcast yesterday and am loving Infected so far!

[Mary]

Dian wrote: "Okay can I just say that chapter 3 has to be one of the creepiest chapters ever in any book I've read. It made me want to take a shower and scrub myself raw. The author really did his homework on h..."

Wait until you get to chapter 22. All I can say is *shudder*.

I'm enjoying the podcast too. He does the woman's voice a little funny but other than that I like it. I'm enjoying the book. I hope to give a little more time to it soon so I can finish it.

[Dian, Crazy Nooooob Mod! :D]

I wanted to sit down and read some more of it today but didn't get around to it. Maybe on my next day off I will be able to get back into it. Its one of those books I dont want to read at night cause I wont want to put it down, plus I have strange enough dreams without infected spores raining down on me during them.

[Nora aka Diva, The Diva Mod]

Not such a good book to start reading when you've got a mystery rash going on. lol :)

[Dian, Crazy Nooooob Mod! :D]

Haha no it not. I have like an ingrown hair on my arm that has caused a lump and I swear every time I pick up this book I start scratching at it and searching for other spots hahahaha

[Nora aka Diva, The Diva Mod]

lol, I am used to this little mystery rash, it comes & goes every couple of years or so. Just one round circle of little white circles.

Tell ya what though, the change in Perry as the triangles grow is disturbing!

[TheThirdLie, Houdini Mod]

I started listening to the podcast. I like the author's narrative voice, but the character voices... not too hot about.

Interesting story so far though. There was a moment when he was explaining the secret CIA rooms that reminded me of Burn Notice and that made me happy. :D

[TheThirdLie, Houdini Mod]

Audiobooks confuse the hell out of me. o.O Now they're talking about seeds. Are they talking about how the infection started right now?

[Nora aka Diva, The Diva Mod]

yes, they are.

[Mary]

I've finished this now and I've got to say, Sigler certainly knows how to paint a picture with words. Chapter 68 gave me quite a lot of images. Like this: (view spoiler)[Each throbbed up at a slightly different
rate, now picking up steam, pushing out almost six inches in a quick
jump, stretching the skin on her stomach like little triangular penises becoming
erect and flaccid, erect and flaccid, erect and flaccid, spurting
blood-threads in every direction. (hide spoiler)].

There are a lot more like that. The one above gave me a mind image that didn't fade away.

[Nora aka Diva, The Diva Mod]

that one made me giggle. I know how mature. lol

[Katt_goddess]

Nora wrote: "lol, I am used to this little mystery rash, it comes & goes every couple of years or so. Just one round circle of little white circles."

*delurking...

Is it in a spot where you got a vaccination as a kid? I think my mom has a mystery spot like that and it's from a polio vac back in the ancient times.

*goes back to lurking because she hasn't read this one yet although it's sitting by the computer...

[Nora aka Diva, The Diva Mod]

One of the spots it turns up is, but I get it in several spots randomly, but only one place at a time. kwim?

[Nora aka Diva, The Diva Mod]

I really liked this book, it was fun to read. :)

[Dian, Crazy Nooooob Mod! :D]

okay I am about halfway through now and can i just say wholyfuckshitwthell are those damn triangles! At first I was thinking some parasite, then I started thinking some alien infestation type thing(like body snatchers but not quite) But now they have started freaking me out, I mean they have intelligence! Im pretty sure Perry is going to die, but I can't help but root for him while he tries to destroy the things in his own body.

[Nora aka Diva, The Diva Mod]

I know, you can't help but chear for him even as he mutilates himself to save himself.

[Nora aka Diva, The Diva Mod]

I still think it should have been could Infested instead of infected. lol but I'm weird like that. :)