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Whistle Stopper - Swan Song
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List Price: $7.99
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Manufacturer: Pocket
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Binding: Mass Market Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 813.54
EAN: 9780671741037
ISBN: 0671741039
Label: Pocket
Manufacturer: Pocket
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 960
Publication Date: 1987-06-01
Publisher: Pocket
Studio: Pocket
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Summary: An Epic Story You Just Can't Put Down
Comment: This is a very long book that spans almost a thousand pages. However, Swan Song is a captivating story that keeps the reader hooked from start to finish. It's a delicious blend of horror, drama, science fiction and adventure.
It's been a long time since I first read this book (some 20 years ago), so some of the details of the story are a little hazy to me now. Fow many years Robert R. McCammon was my favourite author - and he's still one of my favourites to this day. And even though I no longer recall the story in fine detail, I remember it being the best McCammon novel I've ever read.
Real Life Dramas - Volume One
Darren G. Burton
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Summary: This book will leave you feeling.........
Comment: I could say how great this book is. Or I could flatter the author with big words of glory and praise for a story well told. But I'd rather let someone else do the dirty work. The truth is that if you like or dislike fantasy, horror novels this books for you. In my young opinion this story unfolds like a prophetic nightmare more likely to unfold today than could have been imagined twenty years ago. A scary masterpiece that will truly leave you feeling.
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Summary: Waste
Comment: This book is trite, contrived in the extreme and disrespecful. I won't go on for 900+ pages. I paid about $8.00 to get it to my home. That was at least $7.50 more than it was worth as firestarter.
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Summary: Awesome
Comment: This book shocked me. I was looking for an end-of-the-world saga and I found it here, but it's so much more. It takes place over many years and follows a few different characters, not unlike The Stand. But I would recommend this novel over that one (not easy for me to admit though). At the start, Swan is a young girl with a crummy home life. She and a few others get caught underground when nuclear war erupts. Another young boy is in a government bunker with his family. A homeless woman is underground when it happens. The story follows them through the nuked world, trying to find survivors and comrades and avoid the bad guys looking to be back in charge.
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Summary: Still my all time favorite Horror/Sci Fi book
Comment: I have read hundreds of novels and probably closing in on a thousand and this book is still my favorite in the Horror/Sci Fi genre. Great characters, awesome story, and a magical theme makes this one great read. Don't think twice, just buy it and enjoy yourself. Dustin Noteware
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Editorial Reviews:
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Swan Song is rich with such characters as an ex-wrestler named Black Frankenstein, a New York City bag lady who feels power coursing from a weird glass ring, a boy who claws his way out of a destroyed survivalist compound. They gather their followers and travel toward each other, all bent on saving a blonde girl named Swan from the Man of Many Faces. Swan Song is often compared to Stephen King's The Stand, and for the most part, readers who enjoy one of the two novels, will enjoy the other. Like The Stand, it's an end-of-the-world novel, with epic sweep, apocalyptic drama, and a cast of vividly realized characters. But the tone is somewhat different: The good is sweeter, the evil is more sadistic, and the setting is harsher, because it's the world after a nuclear holocaust. Swan Song won a 1988 Bram Stoker Award for Best Novel. It's a monster of a horror book, brimming over with stories and violence and terrific imagery--God and the Devil, the whole works.
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