![]() ![]() The plot is ludicrous, but the characters are believable, and when I finished this one, I wasn’t dreading the other books in the series.Īlthough I had enjoyed Slither, I didn’t really feel any great desire to immediately pick up Slime, the next entry in the series. He spends more time describing the protagonist’s complicated relationship with his wife. ![]() Halkin doesn’t waste much time describing the origin of the worms or their motives. This is the story of a TV cameraman during a killer worm attack on England. I mean, it didn’t win John Halkin the Nobel Prize for literature, but it kept me entertained for a few hours. I was pleasantly surprised to find myself enjoying it. I presumed it was going to be an exercise in scraping the bottom of the barrel, one of those awful novels I can only bare to skim. When I started reading Slither, I didn’t have high hopes. They’re more a trilogy of thematically, structurally and onomatopoeically similar books. ![]() The events in these books make no reference to the events in the others. ![]() I’ve seen people write these books off for seeming too silly, but I thought they were actually pretty entertaining. The titles and covers of the books in John Halkin’s Slither series are ridiculous, so ridiculous that I had to read them. ![]()
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