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The Rats (Paperback)

by James Herbert (Author)
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  • Paperback: 175 pages
  • Publisher: New English Library; New edition edition (1 Nov 1974)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0450021270
  • ISBN-13: 978-0450021275
  • Product Dimensions: 17.3 x 10.9 x 1.8 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 76,649 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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A horror novel, in which the after-effects of an atomic blast produce a race of super rats.

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3 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars An absolute classic from start to finish!!!, 4 May 2005
I remember first reading this book over twenty years ago when still at school and it scared the pants off me!
After reading the section set in the london underground could never go on the tube with the same sense of well being for years after!
If you enjoy a great horror read that is not to far fetched then this is the one.
Dont read it at night tho, because who knows what that strange scratching sound might be.........
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1 of 3 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars The perfect expresion of Herbert's horror formula, 26 Jan 2007
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All James Herbert books are the same.

They have a one-chapter love/sex scene involving the main (male) character and his love interest. They also inevitably involve a `subversive' sex scene involving two of the random characters that you only meet in that chapter, before they are then killed off in that same chapter by whatever menace is the subject of that book, which is usually the same as the title. Examples of this are the two lesbians in The Fog (killed by fog), the old man and his nurse in The Dark (killed by the dark), the female tramp in Rats (killed by rats), and the two illicit lovers in Epping Forest in the second Rats book, Lair (also killed by rats). All of these characters are killed off quickly and nastily.

This leads me to believe that Herbert is in fact a very conservative writer and kills off (i.e. punishes) these `subversive types' because of their subversion. These characters are always homeless, or gay, or of a racial minority or committing adultery, etc. The `healthy' and `normal' love scene between the main character and his love interest is always sharply opposed to this other scene, and is viewed positively. These characters are rewarded for their `normalness' with triumph over adversity and a happy ending.

I got bored of this formula after 17 books (taking me up to 1991's abysmal Creed), and gave them all away. However, I kept Rats. Rats is the most perfect expression of Herbert's formula, and is his best book. It's also his first book, published back in 1974, so he didn't improve with age.
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