CREATED BY
published by Bantam
ISBN-10: 0553566105
ISBN-13: 978-0553566109
reviewed by Adam Armstrong
04.20.2008
That apple fell
off the tree and rolled down the hill.
Alan White has
a killer idea for a new TV series. It has graphic sex, language, and violence.
It’s the show that will make him rich and famous, and if he’s not too careful
it’ll kill him. Soon after his show, The Mercenary, begins to swallow up all
the ratings, all the people attached to the show get swallowed up in a string
of violence and death. Alan tries to stop it before it gets to him, but can
something be uncreated?
Richard
Christian Matheson, son of famed horror/Sci-Fi writer
Richard Matheson, made a thunderous debut with his
collection Scars And Other
Distinguishing Marks. I liked it so much that when I was in a used book store
years ago and saw this book, I snatched it up and then avoided it. I decided to
pick the book up and read it a few days ago after finishing everything else in
the house. Overall it’s a good book, not great. Written in the early nineties
the book is extremely dated now, where violence and sex run so rampant on TV
that no one bats an eyelash any more. There’s not a likeable character in the
book which makes it difficult to get too lost in. And a great majority of the
time is spent beating up on how vapid
Better than I
thought it would be, but nothing I’d want to read more than once: 3.5 out of 5
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