Marvin's Bookish Blog

One Saturday I went into the office to clean up some left-over work. I unlocked my office door and opened it. On the floor was the ugliest looking bug I ever saw. It was grub shaped about five inches long and three inches wide, the color of translucent puke, and bore huge dangerous looking mandibles. The god-forsaken thing was literally pulsing and had six scorpion like legs. But the scariest thing was that this sucker didn't run away like most insects. It headed straight toward me with surprising speed and wobbling its gelatinous body like Jello from Hell.

My autonomic nervous system kicked in. In a beautifully orchestrated movement I screamed "WHAT THE FUCK ARE YOU!!!" and simultaneously slammed my food down on it, spraying translucent puke colored slime out into a three foot radius. It took me a while to get it off the carpet, my shoes and my pants. I didn't calm down until I thoroughly searched the place to see if its cousins were hiding out waiting for revenge.

To this day, I have no idea what it was. Even the exterminator thought I was hallucinating.

Although David McAfee's GRUBS are not exactly like my bug. I'm pretty sure they are related. McAfee's bugs are the main event in this gross-out horror fest. A group of scientists and one ex-marine get stranded in the Maine wilderness with these guys. If you have any fear whatever of bugs, especially the grubby maggot-like ones. You might want to think twice about reading this. For the rest of us horror sickos, this will give you your quota of weird gory scares.

It does have its problems. The tale reads a bit like a comic book with cardboard comic book characters and the ending is very predictable. But anyone who pick up a book titled GRUBS will not be expecting The Catcher in the Rye. Three and a half stars.

One more thing, this book appeared to have been retitled on Kindle as NASTY LITTLE F!#*ERS. Personally, I think GRUBS is more to the point.