I came of age in the 1970s, a fact that many people trying to figure me out seem to find significant. In terms of popular culture, it was a mixed bag. It is the decade that brought us The Shining, Sophie's Choice, and Ragtime, Coppola’s The Godfather, Bruce Springsteen’s Born to Run and Pink Floyd’s Dark Side of the Moon. On the other hand, it was also the decade of leisure suits, Jonathan Livingston Seagull and the Bee Gees. It was a decade trying to recover from the turbulent times that preced...

The Fury was written in 1976, one year after I was born. The entire time I was reading it I felt totally immersed in the late 70's. I'm curious what this story would be like if it were written today. I think it would be very different.Let me just start by saying the first half of this book is all over the place. Farris throws characters and at you like confetti, and the reader is left trying to figure out who everyone is and what they have to do with the story. The simple answer is that The Fury...

Mr. Farris wrote the screenplay for the 1978 Brian DePalma movie version of his novel. Actually the screenplay came first, but after several years of nothing Mr. Farris turned it into a novel. It was then promptly adapted for the big screen.It was one of the first movies I saw on VHS back in the summer of 1981.I recall it was a Kirk Douglas triple feature (Spartacus, The Final Countdown and The Fury)which my aunt had thoughtfully put together for my viewing pleasure. I was thirteen, her favorite...

The Fury follows a half-dozen characters as they grapple with two children who, in the tail end of puberty, develop enhanced psychic powers like clairvoyance, telekenesis, and telebloodboiling (that last one's not a scientific term, as far as I know, but it describes the effect well enough). The two main characters are Peter, a CIA assassin and father of one of the children, and Gillian, a sensible early-teen debutante who discovers psychic powers that kill people whether she wants them to or no...

Heard about this one in Paperbacks From Hell. It was good but not one I'll read again.

This book was way better for me than the movie. It was not all chopped up feeling. The powers that Gillian and Robin have are scary as heck. And Peter is a real badass without having any powers. The psychic abilities have so much more visual imagination stimulation then just watching it. Too me the movie was all action bang, but the book showed the human side and filled in big gaps. I liked it, didn't make my best list , but not bad at all. So I would recommend this book

Yikes. That’s the first word that comes to mind when I think of this book. And not a good yikes, more of a yikes of disbelief that this ever made it to print. I think it’s probably the most fucking dreadfully boring book I’ve ever had the misfortune to lay my hands on and I wish I had left it on the shelf at the used bookstore for someone else’s displeasure. I’ve seen it hailed as a classic many times and I have to say, I REALLY don’t get it. Like really, REALLY don’t get it.

A short take:What a bizarre read! Farris introduces unexpected characters and plot directions often enough that I found myself flipping back to make sure I didn’t miss anything (and no, I didn’t, so guess I’ll just hang on to the plot as it veers in this direction...) I enjoyed many scenes and many of Farris’s ideas and, in the middle of it all, I got an inkling that this book might be something great; sadly, the denouement didn’t quite land for me, and I found myself fondly recalling earlier sc...

Previous reactions to this novel on GR reveal an interesting disconnect for readers when it comes to the marriage of linguistic prowess with genre gratification that is demonstrated in John Farris’s The Fury. More familiar to the masses as an adaptation directed by Brian De Palma, this novel is a mash-up of potboiler espionage and metempsychotic horror that concerns a shadow agency’s attempts to harness the telekinetic powers of two teens who are the vessels of reincarnating lovers engaged in et...

Man, I can’t wait to write this review.

D.N.F. I just cannot get into this book which is a shame since it came in my book box and has a Stephen King rave review across the front. I got almost halfway through and felt like they were still bringing in new characters without revealing why I should care what is happening to any of the already introduced characters. Every time I stop reading for a day, I forget almost everything that happened because it's just kind of a "meh" story "about" psychic kids (thus far it's not about them at all

I saw the movie first, I then read the book which I didn't know was available/written. This is my second time re-reading it. I found it quite difficult in that my mind kept wandering, but once it got to the part about Gillian slowly unraveling....I became hooked again. It's dated as far as books of today go, but it's pretty hard for me not to enjoy a book I've read before and enjoyed then, not to find it interesting once more...just not as much. It should never have been made into a movie, the p...

Between 1.5 and 2 This book just was all over the place for me.

Take one look at the cover of the paperback and it shows reference to Pet Semetery and Floating Dragon, two highly praised book by two highly praised authors in the horror genre. That is a mighty high bar to set. The Fury by John Farris is quite good, but not quite up to that level, in my opinion. The Fury deals with the subject of psychokinesis, telepathy, and clairvoyancy. When young Gillian Bellaver starts to experience strange phenomina, she has an incident in which she forsees as man’s deat...

I first read this novel almost 40 years ago , before I saw the movie, the screenplay of which was also written by Farris. At the time, it was just a great horror novel, by a writer Stephen King called "America's premier novelist of terror". I recently discovered that this is actually the first book in a quadrology, so I had to re-read The Fury again before I read the rest of the series. 40 years is enough time between reads, right?.Robin and Gillian have never met, but have a bond closer than si...

I guess Farris is pretty highly-regarded as a suspense/horror yarn-spinner, but this book was ass. He wrote a later book called Shatter that was pretty good.

The story and characters drew me in immediately; just as the movie did all those years ago. The ending was quite different, but equally deadly. Farris wrote the screenplay as well. Recommended for fans of classic horror, paranormal & tense thrillers.

I wanted to really like this book, the synopsis was really intriguing but the story was not. It took me weeks to finish this book, rather than the assumed two days since it was only 341 pages - that says a lot I feel. You followed two children who are spiritual twins, posessing psychic energy that is considered extreamly dangerous, but I'm not entierly sure why. There was limitless potential for the children (Robin and Gillian) to do untold destruction but the bit about the story that irked me w...

I got my first ever ‘Nocturnal Reader’s Box’ in March and this was one of the books. I felt obligated to read it because of my new subscription, despite not really enjoying the story line. This just wasn’t for me and I don’t think I’m going to force myself to read things anymore

I think this book may have been a really new twist on the horror genre when it was first released. However, since that was over 30 years ago- I don't think it has held up well with the test of time. The thrills and chills that it presents are not organized very well. At times I felt it was difficult to follow because characters were abruptly introduced. In current times- there is always the inevitable "twist" for stories that everyone expects and I fell into the trap for this one when of coarse