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Running With the Demon (The Word and the Void Trilogy, Book 1)
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Binding: Mass Market Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 813.54
EAN: 9780345422583
ISBN: 0345422589
Label: Del Rey
Manufacturer: Del Rey
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 448
Publication Date: May 27, 1998
Publisher: Del Rey
Release Date: May 27, 1998
Studio: Del Rey
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Editorial Review:
Terry Brooks's Running with the Demon is billed as "A Novel of Good and Evil," but he could've called it "A Novel of Here and Now." The fantasy master behind the Shannara series switches his focus from neo-Tolkien jungles to the woebegone steel town of Hopewell, Illinois. Though Illinois teenager Nest Freemark (where does he get these names?) looks like your average kid, she spends her free time in the woods asking her 6-inch pal Pick for advice in dodging the Demon and his creepy Feeders, spirits who gobble the souls of humans. Nest is also being tailed by John Ross, a shining Knight of the Word who wants to keep her from the Feeders' jaws.
Meanwhile, in the real world that dominates the novel, Nest Freemark is being stalked by a handsome, evil classmate who she has rejected, and a pack of surly, insurgent striking steelworkers plot a bombing at the company's Fourth of July picnic. The boy and the bombers are unaware that they're being subconsciously manipulated by the Demon. The book's matter-of-fact take on the uncanny is a bit like The X-Files. (And if you want to compare the two, check out Ted Edwards's X-Files Confidential: The Unauthorized X-Philes Compendium.)
Brooks's plot has more strands than a plate of pasta, yet his mind is logical to a fault--he used to be a lawyer. There's something for everyone: gory monster attacks, a dread family secret, magical mind-game duels, even a (rather flat) teen-romance subplot. The setting has real grit and the countdown to the Independence Day bombing peps up the tale. Brooks sometimes prosaically explains things a better literary stylist would dramatize, and his minatory visions of environmental apocalypse are more fun than the obvious, nagging, don't-be-a-litterbug message they exist to convey. Brooks will never be as deep as Tolkien, and many readers will find him less awesome as their adolescence recedes. Still, he's the genuine article, and with this book, he raises the stakes he's playing for.
In a sleepy steel-mill town, the ultimate battle between Good and Evil is about to begin . . .Sinnissippi Park, in Hopewell, Illinois, has long hidden a mysterious evil, locked away from humankind by powers greater than most could even imagine. But now the malevolent creatures that normally skulk in the shadows of the park grow bolder, and old secrets hint at a violent explosion.The brewing conflict draws John Ross to Hopewell. A Knight of the Word, Ross is plagued by nightmares that tell him someone evil is coming to unleash an ancient horror upon the world. Caught between them is fourteen-year-old Nest Freemark, who senses that something is terribly wrong but has not yet learned to wield the budding power that sets her apart from her friends.Now the future of humanity depends upon a man haunted by his dreams and a gifted young girl--two souls who will discover what survives when hope and innocence are shattered forever . . .
Customer Reviews
Average Rating: 
Rating:  - Running with the Demons
I am a huge Terry Brooks fan. This book does not disappoint. I have introduced my grandson to Terry Brooks, and he enjoyed this book as much as I did.
Rating: - Opening Gambit - pulls no punches
I had forgotten ... it had been so long, I had forgotten what it is like reading a book by Terry Brooks. I had forgotten that he creates worlds that hold such dark things; that he isn't afraid to kill characters, traumatize characters, forge them into weapons in the hottest fires of testing. I had forgotten what a ... almost tactile experience it could be reading a book by Terry Brooks, who describes things in such detail, in such living color, that it is like you are THERE.
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Rating:  - I'm confused
I don't understand this book. John Ross dreams about a horrible future every time he falls asleep, a future that will happen if he doesn't stop it from happening. He's suppose to stop the Demon from getting to 14 year old Nest Freemark. But the Demon was never going to get to Nest because her grandmother had already taken care of things. The horrific, end-of-the-world future was never going to happen in the first place because of grandma! This book would have turned out EXACTLY the same without ... Read More
Rating: - The best of Brooks
This is my favorite Terry Brooks novel. The Magic Kindgom for Sale was a close second, but Running is the book I keep coming back to read over and over. And, I have read ALL of Brooks' Shannara books. This book is perfect. It wreaks of nostalgic Americana, yet the evil is ancient and powerful. The characters are some of the greatest ever created for a novel. The tender, bittersweet relationship between Evelyn and Old Bob. A group of kids from disfunctional families who stay srong and support each ... Read More
Rating: - Terry Brooks: Knight of the Written Word
"Running with the Demon" is a brilliant novel centered around Nest Freemark, a fourteen year old grappling with her magical abilities that set her apart from her friends. She must protect the park in Hopewell from feeders and other monsters that lurk in its dark recesses that lay invisible to others. The novel also centers on, John Ross, a knight of the word that suffers from haunting dreams of a destroyed Hopewell, a city caked in ruins, people roaming about it like ghostly aparrations starved and decrepit ... Read More
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