Customer Reviews

Slugs

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Absolutely the best creature feature book I've read.
The thought of long, black blood sucking and flesh chewing slugs. Icky.
I remember the scene where the old fella is sat upon the throne, (toilet in england speak), and one slids right up his bottom!
Egh!
There is also the scene where the lovers are just finishing their afternoon frolics to find the floor is covered with them, as they try and get out they become engulfed.
The film itself wasnt a bad adaptation for its time but the book presented the most vivid imagery.
Fans of 'Rats' by James Herbert will love this one.

This book was very good. Once you have turned the first page you are unable to put it down. I recommend this book to any of his fans(those without a weak stomach). Any other Shaun Hutson fans please send me an e-mail.

The small town of Merton is overrun with carnivorous slugs in yet another entry in the mutated pest genre created by James Herbert's classic novel The Rats. Shaun Hutson heaps on the grue and keeps the pace lightning fast, so the strong stomached reader can expect to finish the book in less that a day or two. Not high literature, but passable entertainment with quite a nasty edge.

"Slugs" is one creepy, gross, disgusting, and completely fun horrific read. Seriously, "Slugs" should be required reading for all horror fans! At just over 200 pages, you can read it in one day! It should have been longer, as the conclusion seems a bit rushed and perfunctory. Complaint aside, it's the build-up and gruesome descriptions of slugs eating through folks that make this special. I was creeped out and fascinated at the same time as I compulsively turned page after page. Hutson really has his way with the reader's creep bone. Not that I've seen many in real life, but I mean, how scary is a slug really? Kudos to you Mr. Hutson: 4 stars easy.

SLUGS may not seem as scary as it looks, but the cover should give you an idea of what its about. Well, naturally, the plot isn't hard to figure out, the plot is that evil man-eating slugs who have apparently gotten tired of being considered garden pests and vegeterians and have decided to move up the food chain. In all of this our main character emerges, none other than that of the health inspector. Personally, there wasn't really any point of him being in the book, since he does nothing but try to save people. This book has awesome descriptions of people meeting their ends to the slimy little critters, and are very gory. The opening chapter is only a sign of bigger things to come. And I'm not joking. After all, what kind of author would exaggerate slug's body lengths for horror, particularly the one that is a foot long! This book also has lots of sex, and will be enjoyed by those with strong stomachs. My only complaint, HOW COME THEY DIDN'T JUST USE SALT! Salt is the ultimate enemy to slugs, and if you don't believe me, see it for yourself.
Can't wait to read this book's sequel, BREEDING GROUND. Favorite scene: The restaurant patron whose eyeball blows out, revealing a swarm of baby slugs!

Now, mind you, this is one disgusting book. But it's so much fun and filled with so much energy that you just can't put it down! The characters are completely alive (well, except when they're dead), and you will care about them so much that you'll forget they're actually fighting man-eating slugs. Well worth whatever price you can pay for it. The book is only hamperred by American editors trying to take out any British-isms from the text, and only catching half of them. (Now if only I could find a copy of Slugs II: Breeding Ground.

Apparently Shaun Hutson's writing career started when, after reading a horror paperback called 'Night of the Crabs'(5 stars), thought he could do better.

'Slugs' tries so hard to be gory and shocking, but the thought of killer slugs biting and attacking people is just too comical to be taken seriously. Alright, so slugs can be considered disgusting, but they're hardly terrifying. The book does manage to be fairly entertaining, however, and should provide for lovers of gore and repulsiveness. Lovers of creepy and suspenceful mutated-animal horror stories, on the other hand, would be better off finding a copy of 'Night of the Crabs'.

If you don't mind stearing clear of the little suckers (no pun intended) for the rest of your days then, by all means, read this book. What a master of the creepy.

You MUST have this book! You will then come back and order each and every one of his works. Or no; you might trow up alot and toss this sucker on a fire - whichever; I LOVED it!