Others - James Herbert

I have had this book for about 6 mths believe it or not, sitting on my bookshelf, waiting, wanting to be read. I picked it up in a cheap book shop intending to start reading it as soon as I got it home. I'm not sure why but it got pushed to the back and in front came a few books in which I had read some good opinions, here on Dooyoo. Due out in the next few months, is the next book in the long line of books that the king of horror has written. Others being his most recent book, but he has written well over 20 books since the early 80s. Well I am ashamed in leaving this book unread for so long. After starting it last week, I have now finished it, ...  Read the complete review

Nicholas Dismas is a private investigator, plagued by nightmares and with a secret to which he cannot find the answer. He is hired to find a missing baby and finds his clues leading to Perfect Rest, a nursing home for the elderly. Here, he is to discover the secret of the Others and the answer to his own secret. A word of warning before I mention anything else. This is indeed a work of horror and the content of this book is rather disturbing. Many people may find the book too difficult to read, as it deals with physical deformities that Herbert claims are based on real examples in medical literature. However, if you can get past this obstacle, there is an ...  Read the complete review

Oh, how we deceive ourselves. Most of us like to believe we see 'the person inside' when we meet people who are different to us, who are physically 'challenged' or just plain ugly. It was only when I became disabled myself that I really started to try and see 'the person behind the disability' as the politically correct faction would have us all do. I previously believed that I did that anyway, that as someone who has always been 'different' I chose to see the 'normal' person beyond the physical image, however abnormal. Utter rubbish, having read this book I hang my head in shame to realise how much I have ...  Read the complete review

I have been lucky enough to read all of James Herberts books and each one gets better. 'Others' centres around a PI called Nicholas Dismas who is called in to look for a missing baby born 18 years ago but declared dead by the nursing staff. The mother believes otherwise. Our 'hero' is not all he seems as he is afflicted by a deformity including a hump. Sounds odd, but very imaginable. The secret to his hunt leads him to a nursing home called Perfect Rest where he meets Dr Wisbeech and Constance, one likes him the other doesn't. The book, allegedly based upon a true account at times is quite disturbing, more ...  Read the complete review

James Herbert's controversial and stunning new chiller Others follows the same grounds as the superb Creed, yet with an originality that places it a cut above the rest. The main character Nicholas Dismas is a Private Investigator, but like no other that has gone before him. As well as his main burden (something I am not willing to reveal) Dismas carries a secret about himself to which not even he has the answer. Hired by a widowed aristocrat to track down a missing baby stolen away at birth, he finds himself immersed in a grim underworld of lies and deceit. Dismas’ investigations lead him to a mysterious nursing home called ‘Perfect Rest’, a ...  Read the complete review