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9 of 10 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Mind Blowing, December 9, 1999
By A Customer
I got this book because it has the story that the Guns N' Roses song "November Rain" is based upon but I ended up reading the whole thing several times over.To be honest,Del James puts a nail in the coffin of all the traditional boring horror books.I only wish I still had a copy of this book.It does suprise me that though so mant people seem to want this book that it's so hard to get.I was disappointed by the fact that on the last page it said he had a full length novel coming out.I've never seen it and would give anything to read it.
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15 of 22 people found the following review helpful:
1.0 out of 5 stars
An elementary effort, April 6, 2002
By A Customer
Like many other readers of this book, it was first brought to my attention by the Guns N' Roses video "November Rain" (which had a credit to Del James at the end of the video). When I found this book several years ago, I was intrigued by the blurbs on the cover which compared Del James to Clive Barker and Lovecraft, so I purchased a copy. Laughably, the stories within were not even close to the level of the two writers mentioned above. The author's ideas are elementary at best, and he goes for cheap popular references that quickly date this book as early 90's tripe (a period in which the "splatterpunk" genre was trying to replace old fashioned horror on the bookshelves). The author goes for very cheap shocks and laces his stories with crude sexual elements that denote him as a writer with nothing interesting to say except to appear "on the edge" when most of his descriptions could just have easily been copied off a bathroom wall. The only reason this book saw print was because the author was connected to Axl Rose (of Guns N Roses), and I suppose any book that has a foreword written by Mr. Rose must be okay, right?
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8 of 12 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
My Favorite Book Ever!, April 25, 2005
Ok, so I am a HUGE Guns N' Roses fan. Even if I wasn't The Language of
Fear would be my favorite book ever! I have heard this book compared
to Clive Barker or H.P. Lovecraft. For me, Lovecraft is to sci/fi and
Barker relies on too much gore. Del James captured everything that it
was like to be a teenager in the late 80's early 90's. This book was
before the grunge scene took completely over. It is about the seamy
side of life. The ultimate fear, as this book reveals, is real life.
Things like addiction, sex, love, broken homes, damning relationships,
pornography, drugs, alchohol, prostitution,loss of innocence, it is
all hear along with Rock N' Roll of course. In The Language of Fear we
learn what we've always known, that these things ar what we are truly
afraid of. While other books, and authors rely on gore, or boogy men
that we know do not exist, Del James plays on our real life fears. The
first half of The Language of Fear is the Appetite For Destruction
brought to life with characters. The second half is Use Your Illusion
brought to life. For those who are to young to remember, this was life
as we knew it in the late 80's early 90's. While we are currently
sliding into poverty, and our future is once again less than certain,
by the time this president leaves office, The Language of Fear could
once again be our lives. If you notice I did not mention Without You
thus far. I won't. I would have bought the book without it. Besides if
you are that big of a Guns N' Roses fan you should simply buy the book
and find out how the story ends. For the reviews that accused this
book of being juvenile, I would say this: This is the Language we all
once spoke appreciate the book if nothing else as a time capsule.
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