- Taschenbuch: 352 Seiten
- Verlag: Tor Books; Auflage: First. (31. Januar 2001)
- Sprache: Englisch
- ISBN-10: 0312856644
- ISBN-13: 978-0312856649
- Größe und/oder Gewicht: 21 x 13,9 x 2,4 cm
- Durchschnittliche Kundenbewertung: 4.6 von 5 Sternen Alle Rezensionen anzeigen (11 Kundenrezensionen)
- Amazon Bestseller-Rang: Nr. 527.561 in Englische Bücher (Siehe Top 100 in Englische Bücher)
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Some people will remember The Incredible Shrinking Man as a movie with great special effects and a surprisingly good script, given the ridiculous title. Matheson's classic novella is the reason for that. As Scott Carey -- husband, father, and all-around decent guy -- mysteriously shrinks, he faces unimagined horrors at every step, up to the story's surprising resolution. It's packaged here with a number of Matheson's other classic stories, including "Nightmare at 20,000 Feet," which became a popular Twilight Zone episode, and "Duel," which was turned into a movie by a very young Steven Spielberg.
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Starred Review. Matheson's legendary 1956 sci-fi tale of Scott Carey, a family man who is slowly shrinking into obscurity and a terrifying new world inside his own house, is beautifully realized by Yuri Rasovsky's memorable reading. Enthusiastic and compelling, Rasovsky seems predisposed to the suspense master's style of writing. Capturing the brilliant mix of everyday life and extraordinary horrors that Matheson is so revered for creating, Rasovsky reads with a dry, cool wit that breathes new life into this classic tale. He knows exactly how to relay the tension and anxiety to his audience, and never ceases to raise the stakes and bring the audience to their knees in sheer terror. This is a thrilling and unforgettable experience. A Tor paperback. (May)
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weak horror, weak science fiction, hardly a classic,
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Isaac Asimov's Fantastic Voyage II is a much better treatment of the miniaturization theme, for hard science fiction content and characterization. This story spent too much time inside the main character's dumb, empty head, with his descent into self-pity being far worse than the stress and perils of growing ever smaller. The other characters were flat and uninteresting. Once you tire of the protagonist bemoaning his fate (and you will tire of it) there is little to make you keep reading, except hope for an interesting resolution. Well, forget it, there isn't one. The ending does not follow logically from the rest of the story and provides no resolution.The story fails as science fiction and mostly fails as horror fiction. Pared down, it would have made a good script for a comic book. I'm sure I would have enjoyed this book much more back when I was 10 years old. So the book might well work as a juvenile book club selection, although in that case, I'd stick to Asimov and Heinlein. Helfen Sie anderen Kunden bei der Suche nach den hilfreichsten Rezensionen
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Super Classic that will tug at your heart strings,
Rezension bezieht sich auf: The Incredible Shrinking Man (Taschenbuch)
Simply one of the best sci-fi horror hybrids I have ever read. The plight of the poor Scott Carey is so moving and disturbing. The book makes you ponder the question, "what makes a man a man". This story will cause you to question your own place in the universe. It is witty, and absolutely addicting. I read it in a day.
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Symbolic analysis of "The Incredible Shrinking Man",
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+++Size symbolizes power,not value++++Radioactivity(symbolic of the beginning of the modern "atomic age")started Scott Carey's (he's got care;'sgot care;S.Carey;scarey)shrinkage into powerlessness(radioactivity=atom bomb=modernity=concentrated monopolisticpower)+++Scott starts shrinking just after moving to the east coast and beginning the modern stress of striving for greater financial security for his family(he details all his bill and insurance stresses as conventional reality begins"shrinking"his power)+++When Scott's 4ft.tall,he meets an old drunkard who complains of his shriveled and shrinking manhood,which he blames on women(wife and family symbolizes conventional reality/conventional"proportions"and power)+++The ultimate symbol for evil is a black widow(a spider that kills its mate)also,the above drunk calls women "bugs" +++Scott's direct cause for being lost in the basement is his wife's negligence in leaving the door open(his wife "kills" him)+++but Scott's love for her transcends everything else(love transcends conventionality; love and value TRUMP conventional power-worship)+++BASIC THEME:the mystical reality of personal values and love transcends the (only apparent)loss of personal worth in the atomic age;"to God there is no zero";size(power)apparently determines personal worth,but in reality personal worth is unaffected by power,though this contradicts the consensus view+++Scott shrinks1/7th inch per day(reflective of the 7 day work week, another symbol for modernity
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