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Abduction

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This book is so awesome, words cannot describe this. I read it when I was in sixth grade and it was so intresting. I read it every study hall at the end of the day for 5 months! I could not put it down! Here is basically what it is about:

A loser named Quentin starts a Skin-Head gang where they are all goth and have to get certain tatooes and piercings. Soon Matt, Luke's younger brother becomes adapted and a member of the Skin-Head gang. Soon after that, Quentin, an unknown alien/extratrestrial gets mind control of Luke and Mandy, and they always disappear betweeen 10 pm and 2 am. But when they come back, they do not remember a thing. They soon talk it over and things start adding up. Quentin spyes on them in a library and everything goes wacky...trust me it is not a playful alien book...it is realistic, and probably for ages 14+...i mean it it is so awesome...get it now. Cheers to Rodman Philbrick!

a great sceince fiction novel. if your hunrary for a great sci fi adventure read this book. Abduction is about power hungry aliens whose main goal is to capture and enslave the people of earth.This book is a fast paced page turner.In this book you'll also read about a alien thats half alien half person.

"Abduction" is about a boy and a girl who find that they have no idea what is happenng to them every night between 10pm and 2am. The boy, Luke, is convinced it is aliens, but Mandy refuses to listen. When the finally discover exactly what it is, neither of them are prepared. This book totally rocks! I read it on a plane after I went on vacation and I couldn't put it down. My dad was trying to point out all sorts of cool sights from the window, but I couldn't pull myself away from the book. If you don't read this, you're really missing something awesome!

This is an intesting book about two young teenagers,mandy and luke, looking for freedom from the weridness happening around them.They lose 4 hours of their lifes and end up in places which they don't remember going to.They have blackouts and have images flash in their minds.They then figure out that they have to work together to get through this.But the leader of the aliens which had been the one putting the images in their heads is another teenager, quentin, who wants mandy for himself tries to rule the earth with mandy as his mate.will mandy and luke survive this mess or will they get even more tangled up in it???

This was an awesome sci-fi novel! It's about these two kids who experience missing time and keep seeing these freaky insect-like eyes(gee I wonder who that is?) and this wierd guy who is very, very creepy. A guarenteed page turner!

If you're that kind of a person who loves science fiction books...then this is for YOU!! It keeps you interested and wondering. I liked the part about the half alien and half humans. Please read this book....it's for all types of readers!!

Luke Ingram and his buds Billy and Matt are sitting in the pizza parlor's parking lot when Luke gets bored and decides to goe for a walk by the powerlines near his house. As he is walking there he blacks out when he is attacked by something from the sky. He then wakes up four hours latter in bed.

At the same time, Mandy Durgin, a classmate that Luke has a crush on, wakes up confused. This is because she finds that she had woke up on her front porch when she had originally gone to bed. And neither Luke nor Mandy can remember how they had become dislocated.

Later while they are both separately at the local swimming they are
tormented by Quentin, the town cretin, creep, and sadist. Recently he has been changing, becoming better looking, gaining charisma and confidence, and starting a local skinhead gang, one of whose members is Luke's younger brother. Every time that Luke and Mandy see him they have flashbacks of nightmares involving Quentin and bug-eyed aliens, and of experiencing a paralyzing fear that leaves them helpless in Quentin's presence.

There are perpetual power failures every day between ten and eleven p.m., so Mandy borrows her father's video camera with the idea to go to the place where Luke believes he had been abducted to attempt to videotape the blackout. Unfortunately, while she does manage to videotape the power failure, she and Luke, who she meets there, are still abducted. They manage to videotape both the blackout, which shows something in the sky, and their abduction, although the tape is blanked out when they attempt to show it to others later on.

Luke is convinced that they've been abducted by aliens while Mandy is convinced that the powersurges have been causing blackouts, hallucinations, and psychic powers in certain individuals.

Then about the halfway mark a mysterious black-haired femmé fatale type called Cassandra enters the picture, and she has some strange connection with Quentin. What is it? And it is then the pace of the novel starts to pick up.

The basic problems with the novel though are many. First of all is that the aliens, called the dyzych, are just your standard issue grays. Thin, bug-eyed, thin lipped, etc., and they have an agenda, one of which is to change as many earthpeople as they can into alien/human hybrids, and they can put implants into you to control your behavior. Oh yeah, and ewww, they eat cockroaches, alive. Another problem is that, except for Luke, everybody is two-dimensional. Everybody is either good, or they are bad. Mandy is the cute chick, who's just not too bright, and always seems to be the damsel in distress, or Quentin is always the wannabe rapist, quisling, and sadistic punk who seems drunk on power. And, as common in young people's thrillers, the parents are either idiots, or totally absent, or both. There is the alien hybrids, they can change their shape at will, leading the authors to include a lot of cheap morphing. Oh yeah, and there is ANOTHER evil librarian, great if you have a phobia against books, and learning, and stuff.

What saved it for me for the first three-quarters of the book is that the book can be read as a metaphor about being bullied. Quentin is a punk who enjoys psychically torturing Luke and Mandy, physically and mentally, plus promising to take Mandy as his mate and constantly rape her. And both are helpless against both him and his gang. Unfortunately, this metaphor completely collapses in the last quarter as the whole thing turns into just another UFO chase thriller. Something that can be found in dozens of tv shows, DVDs, and second-rate fictions. Worse yet, there is no real ending. I can't tell you how this book closes without spoiling the book for any first time readers, but the book literally blows chunks as it ties up absolutely nothing, leaving itself open to be the first in a series, a series that never materialized.

Even the aliens Achilles' heel is more than a bit ridiculous, in fact it's ludicrous, and insults the intelligence of anybody with an IQ over that of room temperature, I know that it mine. It's stuff like this that gives young people's novels a bad name.

For this site I have also done these novels dealing with the UFO theme:

The Contactees Die Young by Antoinette Azolakov
(a suspense novel)
Tactical Response (Stony Man) by Don Pendleton (action novel)The Mind Masters #2: Shamballah by John M. Rossmann (suspense novel)
A Ufo Has Landed by Milton Dank (juvenile suspense novel)

First off, I was not aware that this book was geared more towards young adults. I am almost 30 years old and I loved this book! In fact, I cannot stress enough just how much that I love this book! This is the first book I've read in a long time that I just couldn't put down; it's a real page turner. It never lacks; it never leaves you wanting. I would recommend to all fans of Science Fiction, or fans of 'alien life' in general......young or old.

~Add~ A few people have commented that they felt this book moved too quickly. I have the following to say in response to that.......

Yes; the events in this book do happen very quickly. This, however, is one of the good things about the book. You never have time to get bored. I just got an idea.....this book would probably be great for people with short attention spans or those who get bored easily. For those with short attention spans or ADD, this book moves as fast as your mind.....so, I really recommend it for y'all especially! Also, since this book is so dang interesting & action packed, it's a positive that it does indeed move quickly, because you will be so anxious to know what is going to happen next. A fast pace is always good for a book that is truly a real page turner!

This is more of a kid's book than YA. Events happen so quickly that there is no time for the reader to see the characters develop. They lack the depth that separates good from fantastic. If you're a pre-teen or in your early teens, its a good read. Otherwise, this book isn't that great.

Abduction is very well written.The Suspence bookis about 2 teens being abducted and then finding out and stopping their captors. The best book I have ever read. Descriptive, well written, suspenceful and enticing. I recemmend this book to everyone looking for a good read.