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The Doom Stone

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In "The Doom Stone," fifteen-year-old Jackson goes to visit his aunt (Sarah Cawley) near Stonehenge in England. Dr. Cawley is an anthropologist who studies skeletons of humans who have been dead for centuries. Soon Jackson spots a strange looking creature that looks like a living skeleton with huge red eye sockets and with slime oozing out of its nose. The creature, called Skull Face, is on a killing spree and it's up to Dr. Cawley, Jackson, Alma (a girl who lives close to Stonehenge in a crematorium), and the police to try to find the monster's weakness and find a way to kill it.

I've read a few of Paul Zindel's books, and I have to say that he is best at writing books like "The Doom Stone," "Loch," and "Rats." Of those 3, "The Doom Stone" is my least favorite, but it's still great. "The Doom Stone" is more of an action packed horror book and it lacks in plot at the end of the book a little bit. However, I still liked it a lot because it was action packed and it was hard to put the book down. If you like action packed horror books, I recommend reading "The Doom Stone."

Fifteen-year-old Jackson is visting his aunt in England, while she does important research near Stonehenge. People are being savagely attacked by an unknown assailant, including his aunt, who barely survives and is now acting very strange. A glimpse of the attacker convinces Jackson it's a monster. Now he must provide proof to the millitary, who have taken over the situation. I highly reccomend this to horror fans; be forewarned, however, it is very gory.

This book is a very hard to put down horror story. This story is a very exiting book. I couldn't put it down ever.

Fifteen-year-old Jackson teams up with Alma, a gravedigger's daughter, to investigate mysterious deaths caused by a gruesome prowler around England's famed Stonehenge attraction. Invited over by his anthropologist Aunt Sarah, the American youth is used to strange occurrences whenever he joins his aunt on some exotic expedition or excavation, but even he is not preprared for the repelling discovery of Skull Face.

Of course the British military is keenly aware of the secret source of the grisly events on Salisbury Plain; their goal is to reduce public consternation as much as possible, thus hiding the truth about the fantatic creature from the unsuspecting locals. These teenage
sleuths ferret information from odd sources and old parchment volumes in the cathedral library, swapping data with wise Aunt Sarah, who has been bitten and thus confined to a hospital. But how is it that Ramid, as she terms this vicious aberration of Nature, has survived for centuries below modern man's radar screen? How does he just Know things in the computer age? And what strange, malicious bond unites Dr. Cawley and the monster? Is there no way to stop his rampage of raw evil? What other secrets are festering deep in the bowels beneath the enchanted horseshoe circle of sarcens and trilithons? This is an action-packed YA adventure, which might stimulate research on the various theories of prehistoric Stonehenge. Chillling, for kids 14 up.

This is a great book, coming from a guy that hates to read. True I dislike reading, but I couldn't put this thing down. It goes into great detail about the gore and uses good, 'better', choice of words for us "young adults". This is a great book. Get It NOW!

Paul Zindel serves up another short and creepy adventure with the Doom Stone. Jackson is visiting his aunt Sarah in wonderfully mysterious and ancient Stonehenge, the perfect setting for the adventure to follow. The creepiness in the story even extends to the girl Jackson befriends who, of course, is the daughter of a gravedigger. The terror is notched a couple of levels from some of Paul Zindel's previous books as the bodies begin dropping. He has written a fast-paced tale that moves quickly and manages to cover a lot of thrills in a very short space. A fine little read.

My overall oopinin about this book is that this book rocks and is so exciting to read that you can feel yourself in the book and see yourself there that you are going agenst the antagonist in the book and see Jackson fighting the doom stone monster that he calls Skull Face.

Five things I like about this book is... 1.That it is gory. 2.That it just came out of the book and made you apart of it. 3.That it was so invigerating that you can help Jackson ficht Skull Face. 4.That it had a lot of attacks from Skull Face. 5.That it was funny at some sirious moments.

Five things I didn't like about the book is... 1.That the army kept trieing to kill the monster. 2.how short the attacks were when it attacked. 3When the monster bit his aunt Shara. 4.How his aunt was being controled. 5. how the places were barely dicribed.

the people that would enjoy the book are people that like gory and books with volums. the loch is the first vol. and the doom stone is vol.2.

Doomstone is about a young man named Jackson who loves to go with his Aunt Sarah to anthropological digs. This time he goes to England where she is studying Stonehenge. On his way there he witnesses an attack from a strange beast on a tourist, then later in the story his Aunt Sarah is bitten by the beast. The bite from the beast takes control of her mind. Meanwhile Jackson meets a girl named Alma who helps him try to stop the beast. I think that this is one of the best books I have ever read. There is always adventure and the urgeto keep reading even when I need to stop. I recommend this book to anyone who loves adventure books with mystery in them.

This book was terrfic! It's about a guy named Jackson who sees this monster killing someone on the way to his aunts. Then the aunt starts to search for this monster. Then the aunt gets bitten and its all up to Jackson to risk his life to find this monster. But the bite on the aunt gets worse and the monster starts to control the aunts mind and she's going crazy! Read this book its great!!!!!!!!!

There was a kid named Jackson who was 14 years old who always went to vist his aunt sarah sho studied and helped people all across the world one day when Jackson went to see his aunt, she was in England. On his drive to see his aunt, they passed the Stonedhenge. Jackson looked out the window and saw a yound ma with a pnytail running as if some thing terrible was chassing him. Jackson saw some thing big liike a beast running behind him jump, bite, and kill him. Jackson told the driver, "Stop, some one is being attacked"! The driver gets out, and they see there to help stop the beast, so they go out to try to stop it. Hit aunt gets bet by it, and the beast takes over her. The book is about how Jackson tries to kill the beastand save his aunt.

It was exciting and thrilling because they keep chasing the monster, and things always go from bad to worse. I also thought that is was scary at parts and made you think about what was going to happen next. I liked it because it was like a horror book, the monster kills lots of people and hurts people, and it was also cool how it took over people when it bits them.

I didn't like that the monster was invincible and could't be killed that easily. I don't the fables of the stones. I also didn't like the way it began or ended. I didn't like the plot of the story and how the story ran to gather so quickly.

OUt of all i give it a 2 out of 5 because it was a good story, and i liked it. I would probably read it once again but never 2 to 3 more times. It was ok but not the best book i ever read. Why i didn't give it a very high rating is because Im not into knowing what a story about Stonehenge really. I never really wondered what kind of powers it has or any of that stuff. I also didn't think that the monster was that scary. The only thing i realy liked about it was that it was more horrobook and it keeps you thinking.