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S'està carregant… Stinger (1987)de Robert R. McCammon
   No hi ha cap discussió a Converses sobre aquesta obra. 1   authenticjoy | Nov 15, 2020 |  I have to say that it appears besides "Boy's Life" I'm not destined to like any of Robert McCammon's books. "Stinger" dragged forever. I almost DNFed it, but I just decided to finish it so I could count it as a bingo read. I ended up not caring about any character we are introduced to, I wasn't scared, and I just went than goodness when I got to the end. The dying town of Inferno, Texas is on its last legs. In a few months when the local high school closed there won't be anything left of the town. When a spacecraft crashes, the remaining members of the town are left to fight off an alien calling itself Stinger. Stinger is after another alien that calls itself Daufin. Ultimately I think if the book had been edited a bit more, or we stuck with very few POVs that it could have worked better for me. I also didn't really like Daufin that much. Taking over the little girl named as Stevie and using her as a "guardian" isn't something that I thought a good alien would do. The writing didn't move me at all. And McCammon has been able to make me cry due to his writing. I just felt bored. The flow was pretty bad too. I think jumping between 10-15 characters is what did it. Some chapters were long, some were only a few pages. The ending unfortunately fell flat for me. (  ) ObsidianBlue | Jul 1, 2020 | I'm pretty sure I read this as a teenager, but if I did, I sure don't remember it, so this book was entirely new to me. And what a great book it was! I'm a HUGE fan of Robert McCammon and have slowly been reading and re-reading all of his books. By doing so I've been treated to to the birth and growth of an incredible author, and a damn fine good time. Stinger has everything a horror fan could want, great characters, a great setting, humor, wit, and downright creepiness. Oh, and nasty monsters, warring gangs, and I could go on, but I think you get the picture. All this in a late 80s story that still rings true today. I LOVED this story, and if the above sounds good to you, I'll bet that you will love it too! Highly recommended! (  ) Charrlygirl | Mar 22, 2020 | *Partial spoilers ahead* Appealing horror/sci-fi potboiler set in a small Texas town, with a hostile alien bounty hunter (headquartered in a sort of living mothership covered with scaly armor) pursuing a more benign extraterrestrial entity and terrorizing a cast of likable, sympathetic Earthlings in the process. McCammon's most entertaining novel, Stinger is a beach book from another age: a time when horror writers could still give free rein to their imaginations and didn't have to churn out stacks of generic zombie crapola to make ends meet. Not the stuff of classics, but a whole lot of fun to read. (  )1 Jonathan_M | Aug 10, 2018 | This review is written with a GPL 4.0 license and the rights contained therein shall supersede all TOS by any and all websites in regards to copying and sharing without proper authorization and permissions. Crossposted at WordPress, Blogspot, Librarything & Tumblr by Bookstooge’s Exalted Permission Title: Stinger Series: ---------- Author: Robert McCammon Rating: 3 of 5 Stars Genre: SF Pages: 542 Format: Digital Edition Synopsis: 2 Aliens come to the dying town of Inferno, Texas. One takes over the body of a 6 year old girl and the other takes anything it wants and turns it into a human/scorpion hybrid thingy. One is chasing the other and the whole town of Inferno is now involved. Taking place in one night, we follow various townspeople as they do their best to survive not only the night but the threat to all of humanity that the Stinger represents. Lots of people die, the whole town has a coming together change of attitude and the good alien wins and steals the starship to go back to its planet to fight against the forces of the bad alien, who gets blown up by old dynamite. My Thoughts: Sadly, after my Stinger Update, there was no mindblowing'ness. This felt exactly like McCammon's The Border and while that's not bad, there was nothing in this book to make me want to read more by the author. As much as I rant/complain/whatever about hating touchy-feeling'ness in the books I read, I still do want some characterization. In this story there were just too many people who were all focused on, hence diffusing any possible connections. And the characters that did have some page time, well, they felt very forced. The 2 young men who were leaders of their respective gangs, coming together as friends after the attack, yeah, yeah, yeah. The cowardly sheriff who overcomes his fear and while not a hero, at least isn't hiding. The airforce officer who stops the planes from shooting down the good alien right at the end and thus ending his career. Yeah, yeah, yeah. And then you have the good alien who takes over a 6 year old girls body and her parents. The other thing that stood out to me was the lack of guns. Apparently, the only people who have guns are either the law enforcement officers or a crazy gang member who has a huge stash of guns along with dynamite. Nobody else has guns. IN TEXAS. That is like writing a story about the city of Boston and writing all the drivers as polite people who follow the rules of the road and are safe drivers. It just ain't so! That whole town should have been bristling with guns and that phracking alien wouldn't have known what hit it. There was also no sense of menace, no atmosphere. Competent enough writing but nothing outstanding or great. For all that complaining, I still enjoyed this read. The alien burrowing through the ground and snatching people and creating dopplegangers with metal teeth and stuff? That was cool. When it happens to a horse, even cooler! Then when the dopplegangers are just appendages and can turn into people sized scorpions? Awesome! Blowing it up with dynamite in its own ship? THE BEST! With all of that, I don't think I'll be reading any more McCammon. Neither of the 2 books of his that I have now read make me want to read any more. If I had no tbr and that is all the library had, then I'd dive right in. But I have a huge tbr and hundreds of books I WANT to read. “Ok” just doesn't cut it in that situation. (  )2 BookstoogeLT | Oct 31, 2017 | Sense ressenyes | afegeix-hi una ressenya
A relentless alien bounty hunter encloses a Texas town under a dome to isolate, hunt, and kill its prey in "the ultimate horror novel" (The Philadelphia Inquirer). Ever since the copper mine closed, the West Texas desert hellholes of Inferno and Bordertown have been slowly dying. Snake River isn't the only thing that divides them. Racism, gang wars, and anti-Mexican sentiment have turned the sun-scorched flatlands into a powder keg. If anything can unite them for now, at least in awe and wonder, it's the UFO that comes soaring out of the clouds like a flaming locomotive. In the wake of the crash, a young alien named Daufin has arrived, too. A fugitive who has taken the form of a human, she knows the terror that awaits the inhabitants of this planet--because it is looking for her. When Stinger, the monstrous alien bounty hunter, arrives, it's with a destructive fury and a devious plan to find Daufin--by entombing the residents in an impenetrable and inescapable dome. A relentless killing machine, Stinger has an infinite capacity for death and destruction. And over the next twenty-four hours, this town is going to bleed and burn. Now, the few remaining survivors must come together to protect Daufin, themselves, and the world beyond from total annihilation. From the New York Times-bestselling and Bram Stoker Award-winning author of Swan Song, Stinger was called "one of the best suspense novels of recent years" by the Science Fiction Chronicle. No s'han trobat descripcions de biblioteca. |
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The main themes of Stinger left me feeling a little weird. There are huge streaks of '80s hopefulness. Normalizing race relations, protecting the environment, a healing of the generation gap that was such a big part of the '70s, friendly aliens, the idea that moving on sometimes meant moving up in the world, and an "as luck would have it" financial recovery after the recession disasters that plagued small towns the 1970s. Here's to hoping that the youth of the 2020s/2030s generation can experience what we did in the '80s.
Some of the cliches were tiresome though. I'd forgotten how many slang terms there were for women with big boobs.
I understand even less why McCammon didn't reach my bookshelf until now. He's full of the same writing styles as Stephen King. And I loved King back in the day.
I'll keep reading McCammon. He's so much fun. (