Customer Reviews

Created By

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I found the plot of this book predictable and the character's felt fake. The format, which kept switching from script, to character, to real life, was extremely annoying and distracted from the story. Additionally, it wasn't really very thrilling or scary. I wouldn't bother reading this again.

Created By is really a good book over all. It reads like its a movie script. I was enthralled by the action sequences and it helped me decide what book to read next. I would also recommend reading The Dark Half by Stephen King. One thing I did notice though is that Richard Christian Matheson seems to have borrowed the little detail of having no lines on the palm side of the main character's hands.

In "Created By," Matheson spares no one his cycnicism and obvious disdain for the television industry. The idea of a t.v. show with gratuitous sex, nudity, and violence was something unusual when the book was written, but now in the new millennium, we're getting so much of it, we've become numb to it. Matheson's work is so out of sync with itself, vaunting different styles, making all the characters as unlikeable as possible and coming up with an ending that truly negates the entire premise. Psychobabble nonsense.

Not Recommended

The plot is okay. A writer creates a TV script which the main chracter actually begins to take shape and form. Sounds like a Steven King Frankenstein novel. What I did not like about the book was the style the book was written. It was a heavy chore to read. The book jumped from narrator to personal view to almost like a TV script to philosophical musings. The writer obviously knew someone in publishing as this mesh-mash is the type which would be creamed in a writer's conference. I hope that in the future the author choses one style and sticks with it. If you can stand to read the style the plot is as good as any B slasher films you will find at the video store.

this book is my all time favorite book-it is interesting exciting engrossing....all the stuff a great action adventure movie would have with a little bit of horror suspense !!! i highly reccomend it !! i pick it up again and again and am sucked back into RCM's world !!! read it you will not be disappointed !!