Others - James Herbert Reviews

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 ...  Read the complete review

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 ...  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) ...  Read the complete review

Believe it or not I read this one from start to finish on a beach in Jamaica and I got so immersed in it that I practically lost 2 days of my holiday, I could just not put it down. It does start off sort of weird but you soon forget about that as you end up practically getting inside the main characters head and experiencing the events ...  Read the complete review

I have been reading James Herbet books since I at school and his last few haven't really been up to his usual standard. I am now pleased to say that he is back with Vengance with his new book "others". Based around the life, trials and tribuations of a phsically deformed private investigator who has taken on the seeminly ...  Read the complete review

I've been a big fan of James Herbert for many years now, and his latest book, 'Others' has made me an even bigger fan. The basics of the story - PI Dismas(as in the biblical thief) who has many physical deformities, is hired to track down a baby, seemingly dead, who disappeared 18 years ago. After many strange going ons, his ...  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 ...  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 ...  Read the complete review