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Title: Vaders
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Author: R. Patrick Gates
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Comments for Vaders

• Posted on 2008-07-04
  Truly Terrible
  
  Honestly one of the worst books I've ever read. So bad it stays with you! I rarely say this about a book, but please don't waste money on it. If you must read it, borrow it. I'd lend you mine, but I discarded it - something I never do with books!
  
  I like some of the author's other books and I would suggest you read those, but stay away from this one!
  
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• Posted on 2008-01-08
  Gruesome at times but a fast read
  
  No, it's not Tolstoy but I found myself involved in the characters and I wanted to know how it would end.
  
  The monsters are not the usual alien invaders and while their "antics" were sometimes comical, they were also occasionally quite gruesome. Not for those with a weak stomach.
  
  My one gripe is the 6 year old boy seemed far too worldly and grown up for his age. He would have been better as a 12 year old.
  
  I passed this book on to someone else and they liked it too.
  
  
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• Posted on 2007-11-25
  Really good author. Really bad book
  
  After reading Grimm Memorials and Grimm Reapings I was really looking forward to this book. The book takes off right away but fizzles out extremely fast. The book which is almost 500pgs, takes place over a span of 5 days. I found it extremely boring and long. After 3/4 of the way through the book, I quickly glanced over the rest of it up to the anticlimactic ending. Don't waste your time with this one, but definitely pick up his other work.
  
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• Posted on 2007-10-28
  A waste of time
  
  I am a big fan of horror alien invasion type novels,pass on this one trust me.At one point a boy turns into a 10 ft tall monster and has a beanie on his head?Please!
  
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• Posted on 2007-09-19
  The INCREDIBLE number of inconsistencies ruin this book
  
  What more can I say? The INCREDIBLE number of inconsistencies RUIN this book in just the first 40 pages!!!!
  Gates' inability to keep track of exactly how big the monstrosities are in relation to surrounding items, including humans, is astounding.
  First they are large enough to throw cars then they can't even knock down a door.
  They are so large that a dog can land on one of their noses yet a simple single bullet from a handgun blows away one of their faces "from eye to jaw"??? That would happen if a human shot another human with a shotgun, but something so massive (20 feet tall) wouldn't even flinch.
  Another bullet spun one of them around when hit in the arm????
  
  One changes relative size so many times in about three pages that I just stopped reading the book.
  
  What he should have done was draw out a monster, then cars, buildings, animals, streets in relative size to the monster so he could keep track of what items are what sizes them. Simple.
  
  It pisses me off when writers don't take the time to think things out carefully before starting to write.
  What a waste of money it is to buy a book of such incompetent writing.
  
  
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