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James Herbert has died :(

  • 20-03-2013 8:03pm
    #1
    Morag
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,427 ✭✭✭


    http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-21870413

    My Dad was a huge fan and I just to borrow them to read on the sly when I was a young teen. Shrine was a hell of a read so was fluke.


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  • #2
    biko
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 81,220 ✭✭✭✭biko


    Wow, great author. I remember The Rats, very good book.


  • #3
    Dades
    Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 25,558 Mod ✭✭✭✭Dades


    I only remember reading The Rats too when I was way too young to read it!

    RIP


  • #4
    Manach
    Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 9,768 Mod ✭✭✭✭Manach


    May he RIP.


  • #5
    ixoy
    Moderators, Entertainment Moderators Posts: 18,004 Mod ✭✭✭✭ixoy


    I read a good few of his books when I was younger. "Fluke" was an entertaining piece with an amusing premise, "Sepulchre" was quite creepy but his real works for me were the rats trilogy of "The Rats"/"Lair"/"Domain" (well four books if you throw in the graphic novel). They were a great descent into an apocalyptic world of rats, never afraid to take a dark route. He had a fondness for spending pages building up a new character in a chapter only to have them savagely killed by the end...

    An enjoyable talent and Britain's closest answer to Stephen King.
    RIP.


  • #6
    mcgovern
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,267 ✭✭✭mcgovern


    RIP, I might give The Rats a read next, I thought I'd read some of his books but none of them are ringing a bell.
    Edit: I have Once, but don't remember reading it.


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  • #7
    TwoShedsJackson
    Closed Accounts Posts: 9,438 ✭✭✭TwoShedsJackson


    Domain was my favourite of his, haven't read anything since '48 I think. Mind you he looks none too healthy in the pics in the BBC article :(


  • #8
    shockwave
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,770 ✭✭✭shockwave


    Loved the Rats trilogy, I didnt think a lot of his other books were quite as good.


  • #9
    gimli2112
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,411 ✭✭✭✭gimli2112


    I read a lot of his early stuff can't really remember them. I have a feeling the Fog was one of my favourites. T'was different from the one they made into a movie. Rats was one of the first horror books I read.


  • #10
    old hippy
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 9,441 ✭✭✭old hippy


    My faves were:

    The Rats, The Spear, Fluke, Moon, The Magic Cottage

    I do remember at school we used to call him "James Pervert" because of the abundance of sex in his novels :D


  • #11
    PADRAGON
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 71 ✭✭PADRAGON


    He was one of my favourites as a teen
    i remember a sequence in the rats
    when the mutant rats
    streamed into london zoo in their thousands,how the different animals
    coped.The battles were amazing.Especially the silverback.
    To this day it remains vivid to me.
    Also Creed was hilarious.
    Id forgotten how funny a writer he was.


    sorry i mustnt have done the spoiler properly
    mod please feel free to correct


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