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- Verlag: Blackstone Audio Books; Auflage: Unabridged (April 2008)
- Sprache: Englisch
- ISBN-10: 1433212609
- ISBN-13: 978-1433212604
- Größe und/oder Gewicht: 14,7 x 13,3 x 1,8 cm
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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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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.
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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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+++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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"Shrinking Man" is Still an Incredible Reader Pleaser.
"The Shrinking Man" by Richard Matheson ("incredible" was added to the title for this release so readers unfamiliar with the book but who'd seen the movie would... Lesen Sie weiter...
Am 5. Juli 1999 veröffentlicht
Richard Christian Matheson is somebody else!
Richard Christian Matheson is a terrific writer, but he is not Richard Matheson, the author of this book. They are son and father, respectively. Lesen Sie weiter...
Veröffentlicht am 4. Mai 1999 von adamtroyc@worldnet.com, Adam-Troy Castro
I think you are getting the father and son confused
Yikes! You have this book by a 3-year old, and another, his, by his father! Please straighten out Richard [Burton] Matheson and his son, Richard Christian Matheson!
Veröffentlicht am 16. März 1999 von Pegleg
CAREY MAY STILL BE SHRINKING TODAY
ONCE AGAIN MATHESON SHOWS US THE GENIUS THAT WE ALL HAVE COME TO EXPECT FROM HIS CHARACTER DEVELOPMENT. ONLY R.M. Lesen Sie weiter...
Am 1. Januar 1999 veröffentlicht
A very imaginative adventure and 9 amusing short stories.
Richard Matheson's novel is one great adventure yarn. At times, it is a too in-your-face existential allegory (what with Scott Carey's, the main character, constant doubts on why... Lesen Sie weiter...
Am 26. November 1998 veröffentlicht
A man faces many dangers when he gradually shrinks.
Richard Matheson's classic tale,familiar to many of us from the movie version,is an engrossing fantasy about a man named Scott Carey who is gradually shrinking. Lesen Sie weiter...
Veröffentlicht am 30. Juli 1998 von rac_cooney@hotmail.com
Fantastic
Richard Matheson's "Shrinking Man" is one of the best novels I have ever read, up there with Clarke's "2001:A Space Oddessy" and the very best Stephen King... Lesen Sie weiter...
Am 19. Juni 1998 veröffentlicht
The greatest adveture/horror story ever written....
I was shocked by how good this book is: Astoundingly well-written, scary, funny, deeply involving. Stephen King and Dean Koontz dream at night about being this good. Lesen Sie weiter...
Am 13. März 1998 veröffentlicht
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