This was one of my all-time favorite books when I was a kid; I must've read it eight times. So I was pleased to find that it holds up well, and I still found it very entertaining (although it seemed a shorter). I did notice some things that I don't think really registered when I was younger. For one, I was thinking as I read that Mrs. Frisby is a pretty unusual character for a children's book. She's an adult, which is not common to children's novels; usually the protagonist is the same age or a couple years older than the intended audience. And she definitely thinks like an adult; she notices things like how young Justin seems, worries about taking care of her family, misses her husband. It's kind of cool. However, it's far more GROSS than any '70's television show could be. This is 'pre-splatter-punk', right up there with "The Wizard of Gore" kinda' imagery from the Drive-In of yesteryear. Rats are pretty gross. Not the pet rats you occasionally see in cages but full on wild, eating garbage, long tailed, with yellow teeth rats. Three months in, Von Wächter is taken ill under mysterious circumstances. Two monks drop him off at the nearby Santo Spirito hospital, under a false identity. Four days later, he’s dead.

The 13 year old girl and her brother living there have a pet rat that they love, and she's studied rats for a lot of school projects, including science fair. Somehow because of this studying, she knows more about rats and how to fix the problem than, like, anyone else in the world. Which is just stupid, because yeah, she's done some research, but the people who wrote the research's she's reading probably know more than she does, duh. Also, I think this book's message was not to have pet rats, and I didn't like that. Also, either I was just day dreaming too much and didn't understand what happened, or the solution to the problem didn't make any sense at the end of the book. Yes, it’s so freaky-'70’s you feel "Karl Kolchak • The Night Stalker" will make a cameo appearance... ('cept for its dank n' dreary London location. ) It suffers very much from “first novel syndrome”. We have a rather dull everyman lead (who may be the least interesting character in the entire book, save for some unnamed tourists... and the tourists are possibly debatable). The book is structured almost like a series of short stories, with most chapters being random citizens chased/devoured by rats in a new and creative way, while our lead just happens to tie together everything together in a few interconnected chapters. Across the capital people are having their faces gnawed off by rats the size of a Ford Fiesta, but at no point does it occur to anybody in charge to send in the army with guns, preferring instead to keep dispatching the rozzers, who gamefully charge in with their silly hats, trucheons and institutional racism to get their faces gnawed off too.

Reef was a soldier from a punitive expedition, which Emperor Emhyr var Emreis had sent to crush the rebellion in Ebbing. He was one of the soldiers who had captured and plundered the stronghold after a two-day siege. Having captured it, Reef s comrades abandoned him, although Reef was still alive. Caring for the wounded was not a custom among the killers of the Nilfgaardian special squads. Reef, portrayed by Juliette Alexandra

Lots of gory action from flesh getting ripped apart and thousands of humans getting eat. Yeah, don’t go into this book if you don’t like some gore and more. If you like your horror with scary creatures, this might be a fun book for you to read. When you’ve lived in a cage, you can’t bear not to run, even if what you’re running towards is an illusion.” This book took me a few days to read and the first night after I started it I had a nightmare about something similar to the happenings in the book. I was recommended this book to me by my Dad who absolutely loves it.In the ninth grade, my friend Isabel Douglass had a fancy rat of her own, named Selene (she also had a zine called Selene, after the rat). Isabel was a forward-thinking young lady, and as you might guess based on the silk-screened "Rent is Theft" tee shirt she wore every day, Selene had no cage, living instead on Isabel's very lovely, if not totally cleanly, person. I remember this being an issue when we'd go eat hot and sour soup at Long Life Veggie House, because restaurant people tended to become upset when Selene poked out, so it was a constant struggle for Isabel to keep her fancy rat concealed at these times. I think Selene eventually ran away from home (as Isabel herself had) to join her gutterpunk rat boyfriend who lived in a sewer. She was replaced by another pet rat -- I want to say Travis? -- but I'm not sure what happened to him. I think he eventually ran off too, to help build up the rat population of Berkeley. If rats don't have cages, they tend to run off. Also, rats are very sensual creatures, according to this book, anyway. Those rats have needs! The Rats spinoff, with the no-brainer working title The Rats, will be a prequel series set before Ciri meets the Rats in Season 3. The length and structure of this spinoff are yet unknown.

Six teenage thieves must rely on their criminal skills as they plan the biggest heist of their careers against the most dangerous crime ring in the kingdom.” In The Ratline, we delve deeper into the story of the escape of a committed Nazi, a party member since 1923 who rose through the ranks as Hitler consolidated his power to be appointed governor of Kraków in 1939 and then of Galicia in 1942, directly accountable to Heinrich Himmler until the fall of the Nazi regime. Being a big fan of Stephen King and the horror genre, a family friend told me about James Herbert, I was intrigued so looked him up and thought I'd start with his first novel, The Rats, I wasn't disappointed. The author, a layman takes on studying rats in New York by repeatedly visiting an alley that I myself have previously reported to 311 for Rat issues. There are lots of strange tid bits of information but also lots of dead ends to his tirades. To publish a book the author has added chapters on Plagues and other grotesque things in other cities which don't directly play into his New York theme. This weakens the book and these chapters fall in at strange intervals. I feel the volume could have been published just as easily without them. Sullivan, the author, suggests 250,000 is the reasonable estimate then goes on to mention an authority says there are a million rats on Riker Island. So Manhattan, some 400 time the size of Rikers has 1/4 the rats? I don't think so. Here is an article > https://www.google.com/amp/s/observer...I only have 3 small complaints. The first complaint is that the pacing of the story can be a bit slow. Still that could be due to the fact books were written at a slower pace in the 50s, 60s, and 70s. The second complaint is that I'm not super happy that we don't know what happened to Justin the Rat either. I like the idea of him and Mrs. Frisby getting to know each other better. Lastly, what happened to Jenner!? Were 6 or 7 rats killed? Is he alive or dead? There are so many unanswered questions that we'll never know because Mr. O'Brien died before he could write a sequel. His daughter did continue the series but as her own writings, which I'm not counting as a true continuation since Mr. O'Brien didn't have any say for those books. Absolutely no disappointment here! For those who don't know the story, Mrs. Frisby is a field mouse with four children. Her son Timothy gets pneumonia and cannot be moved from their winter home. The problem is that the farmer is about to plow the fields. If Mrs. Frisby doesn't find a solution about what to do for Timothy then he will die. Te gustan las ratas? Bueno, ciertamente no vas quererlas mucho más después de esto. Asqueroso, repulsivo, sangriento, simplemente excelente. Un par de capítulos anticlimáticos, pero más allá de eso. Perfección ratona. Es todo lo que podés esperar de una novela de horror de ratas. Y todavía más! This was a solid, old school, creature horror tale. It’s set in London during the 1970s so it’s a bit dated but I still enjoyed it. There’s a smart and heroic main character trying to help the UK government defeat the rat epidemic. Harris was a bit full of himself at times but I had to cheer for someone! Una vieja casa abandonada en el este de Londres, rodeada de árboles y arbustos, deshabitada desde hace tanto tiempo que ya casi nadie recuerda que está ahí afuera. Pero ahí está. Un vagabundo incauto entra, totalmente perdido en su ebriedad, nunca vuelve a salir. Algo putrefacto crece dentro de la casa, y ahora, ahora no va a tardar mucho en esparcirse a través de la ciudad, para alimentarse otra vez. Y otra vez...