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| AUTHOR: | Robert P. McCammon |
| CATEGORY: | Book |
| MANUFACTURER: | |
| ISBN: | 0671624121 |
| TYPE: | Fiction - Horror, Horror - General, Fiction / General |
| MEDIA: | Paperback |
| # OF MEDIA: | 1 |
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Customer Reviews of STINGER
STINGER...an overlooked GEM of ACTION and HORROR Robert R. McCammon (retired so I've heard) falls somewhere between Stephen King and Dean Koontz. Too often his books are overlooked, but McCammon has a powerful story-telling style and can produce and action scene like nobody's business.
STINGER is one of McCammon's finer works. It tells the story of a small desert town where two aliens have landed. One a peaceful energy being...the other a deadly bounty-hunter. The town characters are introduced...the town is sealed off from the world by an energy field...AND THE STINGER IS TURNED LOOSE!
Where it might not keep you shaking in fear, this book will deliver so much action that the last 200 pages fly by with kinetic force that few authors can achieve.
So where do we stand? McCammon is not as frightening as King. He's more logical and fast-paced than Koontz. And he should not be overlooked for the fine novels he's turned out.
I also recommend Robert R. McCammon's - BLUE WORLD, THEY THIRST, SWAN SONG, and BOY'S LIFE!
Excellent read with pleasing resonances
McCammon is a slightly patchy writer, but in STINGER his writing style, characterisation, and balance between SF and gory Horror are all at their best. Synopsis: friendly alien crashlands near a small Texas town and communicates by "possessing" a young girl. Unfriendly, truly nasty bounty hunter alien arrives shortly after, and the carnage begins.. The underground tunnelling, substituting replicates for human casualties, and sealing of the town are strongly reminiscent of Patrick Tilley's out-of-print and much missed X'AN, quite apart from "Invasion of the Body Snatchers", etc. See other reviews for other amusing subplots and nicking elements of this book for "Tremors".
This is a GREAT Summer Read!!
I have read everything put out by Robert McCammon, and have enjoyed most of his novels and short stories. Stinger was the first book I read of McCammon's and it was so much fun I just re-read it this week. I see other reveiwer saying Stinger is like a B-Movie in paperback form like it's a bad thing? Sure it unfolds just like one of those cheezy 1950's sci-fi movies, and that is why it sparkles. This is not a heavy handed, fantasy driven sci-fi novel. I was not looking for something deep, or soul searching, I mean for God's sake there is a reptilian claw emerging from the desert on the books cover, why would someone be shocked, and or disappointed that Stinger is about a nasty alien monster? If you are looking for something that will make you do some soul searching look elsewhere, if you want a cool story about a rag-tag group of people uniting against a nasty foe then pick up "Stinger". Some of the references are dated, like the references to Day-Glo clothes and Billy Idol, but so what it's a neat little glimpse of the 80's. If you have read any of McCammon's other books and enjoyed them then pick up "Stinger".