Talk:The Swarm (Schätzing novel)

message: Could someone insert some spoilerwarnings here? I dont know how to do it, but there are some major plotspoilers here and the reader should be warned...
:we shouldn't use them here, see Wikipedia:Spoiler --Torzsmokus 02:20, 20 June 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Right. It's Wikipedia policy to not use spoiler tags on plot summaries as it should be obvious that they give stuff away. Not only that, but there are bots prowling the site that remove them shortly after they've been added. --Safe-Keeper 22:54, 24 July 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Spoiler

message: I reviewed the article (my first attempt, so I hope I didn't mess up too badly). IMHO, it really needs better plot summary and perhaps more critcism, parts of the article on Frank Schätzing seems to belong here. Infobox is also missing (I will try and work on these, but I want to finish reading the novel)Losseloth 07:26, 7 June 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Review 

message: Someone removed my fiction template on the plot summary, so let me explain myself: While the text may (or may) not warrant the template, the summary can clearly be improved. The main problem is that most of it doesn't provide a real-world perspective and is not written in an encyclopaedic style. Instead it uses a "teaser" style and especially the first part sounds like a cover text. Averell (talk) 12:20, 14 July 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: I've now rewritten the plot completely to be more encyclopaedic. It's still for from perfect and maybe still too long. Averell (talk) 19:21, 15 August 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Plot summary 

message: The box out describes the genre of the book as being "Techno Thriller", I'd contend that The Swarm is in fact Science Fiction dealing as it does with an attack on mankind by an alien species (albeit one from inner space rather than outer space).
It would seem to me to have more similiarities with the Science Fiction of John Wyndham (The Kraken Wakes especially) than, for instance, the techno thrillers of Tom Clancy
Doesn anybody else have any thoughts on this?
80.254.146.84 (talk) 15:06, 18 August 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Genre 

message: If you don't like my version, please go over the text yourself; the current structuring of it is utterly stupid and the text as a whole appears to be written by a ten-year-old. -- Imladros (talk) 11:58, 23 February 2014 (UTC)
replies: text: I don't disagree re the plot being overly verbose but merging paragraphs into megaparagraphs doesn't improve it. Efficacious (talk) 07:22, 25 February 2014 (UTC)
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