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Registre-se no LibraryThing tpara descobrir se gostará deste livro. Ainda não há conversas na Discussão sobre este livro. Great twist on the typical werewolf novel. Loved it! ( ) I’ve been trying to track this book down for a while now, and finally found a copy on a bookswap site. I read it in an hour. I was not impressed. The plot concept was what had initially peaked my interested: Werewolf bites wolf... what happens? Hey, that sounds cool. I like werewolves. And I love fantasy. And I’ve enjoyed a few of David’s other books. Pish. It was only a tiny two-hundred page novel, and author spent way to much time beating into my head that wolves aren’t human and don’t think in concepts, like, words. Clumsily beating in, I might add. I might be grading this a little harshly... it was originally published in 1989, and maybe that sort of stuff needed to be stressed in that decade, but even if so, it did not age well. It starts off with this clunky framing technique evolving a writer who is supposedly telling the reader this tale, who opens the story setting and then never appears again. Then there was the obligatory female love interest for the newly-turned werehuman, which was so predictable as to defy belief. (Instant attraction on the part of the woman at first glimpse of inhuman man with bulging corded arms, leading her to try to domesticate him to city living, leading him to ponder between staying with her or tracking down his wolf-mate, leading me to mutter respectively, “But that’s so... cliché.” “No, that’s a stupid idea.” and “Go back to the bitch in the woods!”) Plus, in addition to the evil rampaging werewolf, there was also an evil vampire involved. And the entire plot was ultimately caused by an old gypsy curse. I honestly can’t decide if the story could have been improved by developing it more, or if it was a mercy that the book was so brief. I recommend it only to serious fans of the werewolf subgenre and of Peter David. A very funny take on the werewolf genre. I once spoke with Peter David telling him I thought this would make good movie and he told me at the time that studios weren't interested because the film WOLF had not done that well, and therefore producers had collectively decided that audiences didn't want to see werewolf movies. (Roll eyes.) Some years later he announced that the book had been optioned for a film adaptation, but this topic was never revisited in any forum that I was witnessed to. So, if there are any film producers on library thing, take note. The makings of what could be the best werewolf comedy since AN AMERICAN WEREWOLF IN LONDON (sorry TEEN WOLF) can be found between the covers of HOWLING MAD. sem resenhas | adicionar uma resenha
Well, New Yorkers have seen their share of lunatics. But are they ready for a wild and weird man-wolf named Joshua who's never heard of fast-food, cable TV, or that many-splendored thing called "dating?" Não foram encontradas descrições de bibliotecas. |
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