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The Hairy Wookie
- 4 Feb 2005
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I have just finished the last book of this trilogy and feel a little let down.
(the trilogy contains the books Ring, Spiral and Loop) Anyone else read them and felt this way?
The reason is that Ring is really a straight forward horror book. It deals with the supernatural with modern technology. As horror books go it was a good read and entertaining enough. The came Spiral where is started going a little strange. The smallpox virus combining death of Sadako, who has paranormal abilities, to try and survive by making copies of Sadako via the media. Keeping those who are useful alive and killing those who aren't off. Okay, starting to get strage here and reading more like a hoorror/sci-fi genre now.
Finally Loop, which should really be called loopy. In effect it renders the first two books as redundent. It is now sci-fi not horror. In effect the last two books have taken place in a virtual world and by making on of the virtual people real, Takayama, they have managed to introduce the Ring virus into the real world in the form of a cancer virus. At this point I thought it was reaing more like a Michael Critchton rip-off.
I feel that it should have kept with the horror genre and not gone skipping off into sci-fi and essentailly losing direction. The last book is like a bad way of winding things up. I had a similar experience after reading Dean Koontz False Memory. The author has got really involved with the story, but ends up not finding a good way out goes for a cheap, and IMO, lame ending.
(the trilogy contains the books Ring, Spiral and Loop) Anyone else read them and felt this way?
The reason is that Ring is really a straight forward horror book. It deals with the supernatural with modern technology. As horror books go it was a good read and entertaining enough. The came Spiral where is started going a little strange. The smallpox virus combining death of Sadako, who has paranormal abilities, to try and survive by making copies of Sadako via the media. Keeping those who are useful alive and killing those who aren't off. Okay, starting to get strage here and reading more like a hoorror/sci-fi genre now.
Finally Loop, which should really be called loopy. In effect it renders the first two books as redundent. It is now sci-fi not horror. In effect the last two books have taken place in a virtual world and by making on of the virtual people real, Takayama, they have managed to introduce the Ring virus into the real world in the form of a cancer virus. At this point I thought it was reaing more like a Michael Critchton rip-off.
I feel that it should have kept with the horror genre and not gone skipping off into sci-fi and essentailly losing direction. The last book is like a bad way of winding things up. I had a similar experience after reading Dean Koontz False Memory. The author has got really involved with the story, but ends up not finding a good way out goes for a cheap, and IMO, lame ending.