Review: A Train Wreck
Rating: 1 out of 5
Date: 05 6, 2013
This review is of the updated and re-edited version, and is one-star only because 'no-star' isn't an option.This work is almost unreadable.  There may be a sentence structure or grammatical error that the author didn't make, but I think he managed to hit them all.  The author has no idea where to use a comma - he doesn't have them where they're supposed to be, and apparently inserts them completely at random elsewhere, as I could detect no pattern. He also throws in the occasional semicolon just to expand the range of punctuation marks he uses incorrectly.He uses almost no contractions, which makes the narrative and dialog even more  stilted, contrived and clunky.When he's not using cliches, his original descriptive phrases are astonishing in their badness: 'The homeless man slowly put one uneasy foot in front of the other...', a zombie's wrist broke 'with a thunderous crunching sound', and a building had 'outside entrances, almost like a massive cancerous duplex gone wrong.'Really?The characters are without exception cartoony and one-dimensional, the character development non existent, and the action sequences contrived and unrealistic.The zombies retain self-awareness and rational thought, possess magic zombie-vision, have many vampire-like traits, and can pass for normal humans.I was ready to quit at 25%, but I read through the whole thing to see if it would eventually get better - or at least less bad.  It never did, and in the end it just got 'Plan Nine From Outer Space' stupid.If the author wants to write a series, he'd be well advised to take several high school level English grammar and composition courses, a creative writing course, and get himself a copy of Strunk & White.  Otherwise, he may wish to consider taking up golf or bird watching.