The Jim-Jams [Mass Market Paperback]

Michael Green (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: May 1, 1994

The mild-mannered retirees newly arrived at the exotic resort of Blue Turtle Island are threatened by weird predatory creatures who sow seeds of insane, burning desire in their weak victims, turning the island into a satanic sandbox.

Product Details

• Mass Market Paperback: 256 pages
• Publisher: Pocket (May 1, 1994)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0671881485
• ISBN-13: 978-0671881481
• Product Dimensions: 7.5 x 4.2 x 1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 9.6 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 3.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #3,291,647 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

Customer Reviews

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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent, February 11, 2003

By A Customer

This review is from: The Jim-Jams (Mass Market Paperback)

The Jimjams is an awesome scifi horror novel. I honestly didn't expect much, but this reeled me in with the gruesome descriptions and sudden twist on the characters. Little is explained outright, and you get the chilling answers the more you read. It's a sinister, macabre novel that takes the cliched insects-taking-over-the-world theme and turns it back into raw meat. I like it the more I think about it.

Definitely a sick novel though, filled with violence and wierd sexual stuff, which makes the novel even more creepier, rather than detracting from it.

Overall, a frightening plunge into everyone's worst fears, that is both straight-forward but with excellent little hints dropped throughout the story, filled with everday people with everyday problems. It's entirely worthy of a sequel.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Very good, July 2, 1998

By A Customer

This review is from: The Jim-Jams (Mass Market Paperback)

The actual rating is pretty close to a 5, but I felt that Mr. Green's later work Dry Skull Dreams was superior. Still, Jim Jams is a beautifully surreal,grittily unsentimental novel about nothing more than simple evolution...in this case the first arrival on Earth of a `superior' insect-based alien race and the beginning of the human race's sublimation into it. Because Green doesn't indulge in typical expository sequences that explain developments in simple terms - a la King or Koontz - the average reader may find him hard to get. Reminiscent of early Clive Barker in its explicitness:not for the faint of heart.

3.0 out of 5 stars Very surreal little horror gem, November 19, 2000

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"no6km" (Massachusetts USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: The Jim-Jams (Mass Market Paperback)

Michael Green's the Jim Jams is a surreal and entertaining novel.His descriptions of the takeover of the resort are positively unsettling.Uncovers the fears that all of us share in one form or another of the unknown.Although I agree with one of the previous reviewers that Green's Dry Skull Dreams is a superior novel to this one regardless what my friend that gave me the two books thinks, nonetheless I enjoyed this work immensely and recommend it to anyone with a taste for creepy horror books.