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Subterranean (John Constantine, Hellblazer) (Mass Market Paperback)

by John Shirley (Author)
3.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)

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  • Mass Market Paperback: 352 pages
  • Publisher: Pocket Star Books (28 Nov 2006)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 1416503447
  • ISBN-13: 978-1416503446
  • Product Dimensions: 17.3 x 10.7 x 3 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 98,762 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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2.0 out of 5 stars Even worse than War Lord, 25 Jan 2008
By J. Reid "squintywitch" (Glasgow, Scotland) - See all my reviews
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This is appallingly bad. The only good thing about it is the cover art. The dialogue is dismal and sounds like it was written by someone basing Britain off Eastenders and Take the High Road. I know JC's not averse to the odd "strewth!", but the degree of stupid historic anglicisms is over-the-top, inconsistent and disruptive. The supporting characters talk alternately like cockneys and extras from Pride and Predjudice, and the only Scottish (Scotch, in the book... grrr...) character will be talking away then succumb to a landslide of "ach!".

The plot is dire and badly written. There's no sense of pacing, no excitement and the style is pretentious and wordy. It might work as a stand alone fantasy novel, but in the Hellblazer mythology it just doesn't fit. Not nearly dark enough, inconsistent and littered with romantic celtic rubbish that jars. And the ending is pretty poor; an attempt at a Hellblazer style doublecross that is unlikely and nearly unreadable.

Finally, the character of Constantine has been utterly ravaged. Gone is my hard-drinking, chain-smoking, bitter, vicious anti-hero - to be replaced with some romanticised caricature of himself. He takes on an apprentice, for God's sake, finds a love interest in lovely middle-aged single mother Oirish Maureen, and generally is a square jawed all-action hero.

I should have known better and stopped after War Lord, which was bad enough. It gets two stars because I managed to finish it, but I'm not sure I deserve either of them. Perhaps you might enjoy this if you've never read the comics, and the die-hard completist might want a copy, but for the rest of the world, stick to the graphic novels.
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3 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars going underground, 28 Dec 2006
By Paul Tapner (poole dorset england) - See all my reviews
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Another prose novel for John Constantine, the chain smoking hard drinking master of magic, as played by keanu reeves on film. Although this is the comic book version, who is british and looks quite like sting.

very much a sequel to the earlier hellblazer novel warlord, this finds john forced to get involved in strange events in the west country when a village disappears. He finds a weird underground world as a result.

It's an odd read, as it's more like a fantasy than a horror novel, although the writer does capture the character of john constantine well and knows the comic book continuity equally. Lots going on and lots of supporting characters mean john isn't always on the page at first and it's not quite as interesting when he isn't. This also means it's not the smoothest of reads at times.

But it all does come together in a very good last hundred pages when some typically cunning planning from john comes off.

A decent read that should pass the time in between new issues of the comic well, although not quite as good as warlord
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