- Paperback: 144 pages
- Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd; New edition edition (3 Jan 1998)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0140053387
- ISBN-13: 978-0140053388
- Product Dimensions: 17.5 x 10.7 x 1 cm
- Average Customer Review: 4.4 out of 5 stars See all reviews (9 customer reviews)
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The island of Tanakuatua seems like heaven to the 40 people who go there in order to create a utopian society, but soon they start to die in a horrible way and it seems that something strange and deadly is out there in the jungle.
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12 of 12 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
I remember trying to read this aged 13 and never making it past the recruitment of the settlers and the history of the island. I even skipped ahead looking for the "action" but eventually gave up.
It's over 25 years later and I've finally read this book. Good grief...how embarrassing was the shallowness of my youth?
What a fantastic story. Almost horrifically clinical in it's detachment incredibly well conceived and thought-through to it's ultimate inevitability.
It's like the excitement of discovering and reading a secret file that somebody didn't want you to see.
It's over 25 years later and I've finally read this book. Good grief...how embarrassing was the shallowness of my youth?
What a fantastic story. Almost horrifically clinical in it's detachment incredibly well conceived and thought-through to it's ultimate inevitability.
It's like the excitement of discovering and reading a secret file that somebody didn't want you to see.
12 of 16 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
This book is about a community, set up as a lasting memory for a very rich old man, on an island. This island is a paradise in the middle of nowhere. Unfortunately, the former inhabitants left a lasting reminder in a fuge. A curse to all who inhabit this island.
Was it the curse that made the spiders more efficient killing creatures or the nearby nuclear tests? We'll never know but this story gave me the creeps whenever I saw a spider for days!!
This was John Wyndham's last book and I suspect that it was either a draft or the first of many short stories to be made into a full book. Fortunately for us, his quality of writing ensured that the story is as complete and gripping as all his others are. Get it! Get them all!!
Format:Paperback
All in all I found the book highly enjoyable. Short, sweet and it does leave you with questions, basically I would say if your a fan of cleverly written novels go for this one!
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The book was purchased for a third party who was very pleased with the condition and the timescale of delivery.
Published on 13 Nov 2009 by R. W. Mason
Wyndham's Web made easy
Hurrying to a dreaded dental appointment, I grabbed this book, thinking: nice and short, cheap and cheerful and written by the brilliant John Wyndham - it's bound to take my mind... Read more
Published on 21 Aug 2005 by Sally-Anne
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typically wyndham. Read after triffids, lichen, chocky and kraken. All wyndham sci-fi should be read now! by all. Insightful, realistic fifties sci-fi. Read more
Published on 19 May 2004
Chilling and exciting
After reading Day Of The Triffids and Chocky, I knew what to expect from John Wyndham, and I wasn't disappointed! Read more
Published on 22 Feb 2002 by sharon_block@hotmail.com
Buy the rest first and then this
Published 10 years after his death, this book feels like a rough draft of what could have been a great story... Read more
Published on 23 July 2001
Scary Spiders
'Web' was the third John Wyndham book that I read, and it follows the same style of his others. It is about a group forming a utopian community on an island, only to discover that... Read more
Published on 27 Jan 2001 by teena_rama@yahoo.co.uk
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