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When Peter Parker was bitten by a radioactive spider, he became much more than the shy, introverted high school student he had always been. Now possessed of the proportionate strength, speed and agility of a spider, he sought to use his newfound abilities to achieve wealth and fame. But after his beloved Uncle Ben was murdered, the grief-stricken youth soon realized that with great power comes great responsibility. Now Peter wages a one-man crusade against crime...in the costumed identity of the amazing Spider-man! In DOWN THESE MEAN STREETS, a new designer drug with physically-altering side effects is sweeping through the streets of New York, leaving law enforcement completely helpless and utter chaos and destruction in its wake. As Spider-man stumbles onto the terrifying truth behind the origin of the drug, must he once again confront one of the most diabolical enemies he has ever faced?
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Keith R.A. Decandido is a top genre author whose tie-in novels for Pocket include several Star Trek titles across all series as well as Buffy the Vampire Slayer novelizations. He is also known for his Star Trek: The Next Generation comicbook miniseries Perchance to Dream, and is the editor of several science-fiction and fantasy anthologies.
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This review is from: Spider-Man: Down These Mean Streets (Marvel Classics) (Mass Market Paperback)
I liked this one, unlike the other reviewer, although like him, I have only read Jim Butcher's novel of this series.
The key thing with Spider-Man is to get inside the character's head and to get his voice right, because its the Parker/Spider-man corss-over where the dilemmas and drama usually reside. Here the plot is about new and bad drugs, not an original plot line, but still the subject of much real-life drama and hardly exhausted as drugs mask issues about control and responsibility. And when you're a teacher, like Mr Parker, its a cert you'll come across them in a rough social neighborhood. Here in St Albans, we have it easy. So this one is a kitchen sink drama, and it does involve a lot of peripheral characters more than usual. But I personally like that, and warmed very much to by far the best exploration of the Spider-Man/police relationship. That was a much-needed examination and is very well explored on both sides of the argument. The villain here is almost an after-thought, but for all that, it is not wasted or thrown away totally. You feel with Spider-Man, usually, not everybody wins. There's the opposite of a silver-lining with his triumphs. That's a satisfying layer of real-life spread into the sandwich of his fiction - and DeCandido get this right, the voice and the pace right, to make an excellent addition to the novels about this fascinating and tormented character.
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Poor story,
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This review is from: Spider-Man: Down These Mean Streets (Marvel Classics) (Mass Market Paperback)
Storyline not interesting; was expecting better after reading the 'darkest hours' spiderman novel by Jim Butcher which is by far a better book.
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