Comments on: Cannibals (Guy N. Smith) http://rvgfanatic.com/wordpress/index.php/cannibals/ Relive | Replay | Remember Mon, 16 Mar 2026 02:55:48 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.1.41 By: Steve http://rvgfanatic.com/wordpress/index.php/cannibals/#comment-147767 Sun, 12 Jul 2020 19:47:11 +0000 http://rvgfanatic.com/wordpress/?p=29047#comment-147767 Hi Tamiflu, first of all, wow. I am shocked — SHOCKED! — that someone left me a comment based on Cannibals. I guess it goes to show you when you put something out to the internet, you never know who it might reach and who might reach back! So very cool on that front. Secondly, I understand and hear your disappointment of this book. I think for me, because it was my first legit horror novel that I ever read (R.L. Stine’s Fear Street and Point Horror stuff, which was aimed at teens, clearly doesn’t qualify as such)… I was so blown away by the ample amount of violence and depravity. It was the right book at the right time sort of thing. I still think it’s balls to the wall madness, but I can see your perspective if one has already read many of these type of books. For me, it was a brand new experience and so I was probably very impressionable and easily pleased. I have yet to read any of his Crabs books but I definitely will one day. Coincidentally, my next review will be about another Guy N. Smith book, so be on the lookout for that. My second Guy experience, however, wasn’t nearly as memorable or pleasant, and I will discuss why in that upcoming review.

On a side note, I had a ton of fun with Guy’s Alligators! I thought that one rocked. Read Snakes earlier this year… that one not so much. Still readable but felt very by the numbers and a bit uninspired.

Anyway, good to have another Guy/horror reader roaming around here! I was pleasantly surprised to read your comment; I guess part of me never imagined that fellow horror book fanatics would find their way to a site largely dedicated to old Super Nintendo video games :P I know I started writing about these old books recently but my brain never thought it would attract other people who have read these ancient novels as well. Cheers!

]]> By: Tamiflu http://rvgfanatic.com/wordpress/index.php/cannibals/#comment-147469 Thu, 25 Jun 2020 17:32:41 +0000 http://rvgfanatic.com/wordpress/?p=29047#comment-147469 Like a lot of people who come across Guy N. Smith I first read one of his killer crab books. I fell in love with that considering I loved those crazy old monsters movies when I was a kid and you can’t find a lot of that in book form. So after reading that I do plan on reading the others in the series but I, of course, couldn’t help but look up his other books. I wanted to know what else was going on in that brain of his besides giant killer crabs. I came across Cannibals and was very excited to try something new from Guy. But to be honest with this novel I was left a little underwhelmed. Maybe I’ve seen the “mutated cannibal” thing so many times by other authors that I was just not into it anymore. But I found this book to be a bit boring. I’ve never really been into the “unhelpful village” and “hate all outsiders” thing and theres A LOT of that in here, and its a long while into this book befor anything of real interest happens. And it only being a little over 200 pages you don’t have a ton of room to get it all in there.I was also blown away by a line in the book. I can forgive some character stupidity in a lot of gross out monster stories, because lets face it we see it a lot. But when a guy who is supposed to be a cop basically looks at people and says something along the lines of “hey I know some people are missing including a child but lets get some sleep and we will look for them in the morning”. I can’t help but shake my head at this guy saying such an idiotic thing. A kids missing and your gonna wait till the morning to do anything about it??? The ending was kind of suspensful though. I had no idea how our heroes were going to get out of it. It looks pretty bad for them and you find yourself really wanting them to make it. Even the mean one who you can’t figure out why is still alive. This novel isn’t going to keep me from reading Guy’s other works. He has a lot of stuff I’m interested in and I’m gonna check them out. I am just hoping for better than I got with “Cannibals” its a quick enough read, and I don’t regret reading it. But go for his giant killer crabs instead.

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