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Children of the Night
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Binding: Mass Market Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 813.54
EAN: 9780446364751
ISBN: 0446364754
Label: Grand Central Publishing
Manufacturer: Grand Central Publishing
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 464
Publication Date: June 01, 1993
Publisher: Grand Central Publishing
Studio: Grand Central Publishing
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Rating:  - Wonderful read.
Moving from Science Fiction to Horror in both my reading and writing, I picked up Children of the Night on a whim and was thoroughly enjoyed. Just like his Hyperion or Endmyion series, Simmons comes up with a very interesting idea and develops it well.
It begins in Romania shortly after the fall of Communism and the destruction of the Berlin Wall. The Romanian despot, Coseceau, is removed from power. The collapse of the Soviet Union is imminent, and the consequences its bloc are becoming ... Read More
Rating: - Vampires meet the CDC
This was my introduction to Dan Simmons. After being told what an excellent writer he is, I picked up the first book I could find by him. Normally I do not like Vampire novels (Other than Bram Stoker of course) mainly because they tend to drag, be self indulgent, and overly sexual. This novel grabbed me... grabbed me and wouldn't let go. I won't go into a great synopsis since it has already been done to death on here.
In late 1980's early 90's Romania, people are poor, medical attention ... Read More
Rating:  - Great read except for the end
I thought this was an entertaining, original, and generally well written horror novel. The only thing I could not get past was the end which was a little too much like an A-Team episode for my liking. I almost expected someone to light a cigar and say "I love it when a plan comes together." But that aside it was a good book and I have yet to read a Dan Simmons book I really did not like.
Rating: - Not Free SF Reader
More of a standard vampire tale than Carrion Comfort, a scientist working on AIDS adopts a Romanian child. She finds out that its blood has unusual properties, not realising that the baby is a vampire child.
This gets a few people killed, and with some help from the usual sort of vampire book allies she sets out to find out what is going on, and perhaps cure a disease.
Rating: - LOTS of medical terms but a wonderful all-in-one adventure & romance **READ Summer Of Night FIRST**
Mike O'Rourke is in both Summer of Night and The Children Of The Night. Summer of Night tells the story of 12-year-old boys, of which a small part of the young life is repeated in The Children Of The Night. They are totally separate stories but I just personally prefer reading in chronological order is all.
The novel opens up with the depressing reality of post-dictatorship and third-world orphan life. Starving & sick babies, neglectful caretakers, government murders, blackmarket babies, ... Read More
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