Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #809652 in Books
• Published on: 1998-03-16
• Original language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• 256 pages

Synopsis
Mulder and Scully are on a tense search for a black labrador named Vader. The dog may hold the key to untold advances in medicine, but the scientist investigating the case has gone into biological meltdown with uncontrollable murderous impulses.

Customer Reviews

Impossible to put down
One thing I liked about this book is that it seems to have been written so that it could easily be made into an episode - plot wise and time wise. A lthough the book is a relatively quick read, the plot is intelligent, dark and gripping. The authors power to convey the situation to the reader is very strong and the characters are spot on.

Badly-written tosh...
First of all I would just like to say that I am a huge fan of the X-files television series. That's why I bought this book in the first place - I thought I might enjoy it as much as the series. The description on the back sounded interesting and at £2 I thought I couldn't really lose out.

After the first chapter I knew I was going to be disappointed. It is incredibly badly written. A very small vocabulary is used, leading to the repetition of words more times than is necessary. The characters of Mulder and Scully are one-dimensional and completely unlike the television series - Scully comes across as cold and Mulder comes across as flippant with his frequent use of one-liners. I didn't really care about the characters as they all dissolved into cliche. It was extremely linear and didn't require much thought.

I think it is safe to say that I will not be buying any more of the X-files novelisations by this author. Antibodies is going straight to the charity shop.

Good story, poorly executed
This is the first X-Files book i've read, and the only one - therefore i cannot compare it to the other efforts. But here are my thoughts about the book: It's a good story, with good characters, and a good atmosphere. And i thoroughly enjoyed reading it (as someone else stated, its a 2-day read). But, i felt that the author seemed somewhat amateurish - the similies and metaphors seemed very contrived, and far from captivating. And most dissapointingly of all, i thought Mulder and Scully were left completely unexplored in both their characters and relationship. As an x-file this is a good story, I write this at 18 years of age, but i'm sure the book would be accessible to teens of 14+. But i don't only watch the x-files for the story - i also watch it for the legendary M and S - and they are very poorly written in this book. Scully has two emotions: stern formality, and extreme distress. And mulder is even worse: he either suffers from complete indifference, or some sort of condition whereby he reacts only byh raising his eyebrows to every comment that every other character makes.

Don't expect too much and it won't dissapoint.