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    The Last Werewolf

    Written by Glen Duncan

    Narrated by Robin Sachs

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    Then she opened her mouth to scream-and recognised me. It was what I'd been waiting for. She froze. She looked into my eyes. She said, "It's you."
    Meet Jake. A bit on the elderly side (he turns 201 in March), but you'd never suspect it. Nonstop sex and exercise will do that for you-and a diet with lots of animal protein. Jake is a werewolf, and after the unfortunate and violent death of his one contemporary, he is now the last of his species. Although he is physically healthy, Jake is deeply distraught and lonely.

    Jake's depression has carried him to the point where he is actually contemplating suicide-even if it means terminating a legend thousands of years old. It would seem to be easy enough for him to end everything. But for very different reasons there are two dangerous groups pursuing him who will stop at nothing to keep him alive.

    Here is a powerful, definitive new version of the werewolf legend-mesmerising and incredibly sexy. In Jake, Glen Duncan has given us a werewolf for the twenty-first century-a man whose deeds can only be described as monstrous but who is in some magical way deeply human.

    One of the most original, audacious, and terrifying novels in years.


    From the Hardcover edition.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherPenguin Random House Audio
    Release dateJul 12, 2011
    ISBN9780307917348
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    The Last Werewolf
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    Glen Duncan

    Glen Duncan is the critically acclaimed author of six previous novels, including Death of an Ordinary Man; I, Lucifer; and, most recently, The Bloodstone Papers. He lives in London.

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    • 5/5
      Fabulous writing! I took my time to devour each word.
    • 2/5
      I posted my review once of this book and it wouldn't leave my currently reading shelf and when I tried to delete it off the shelf it totally deleted my review. So here it is again. I thought this book was boring. The cover said it was terrifying and I didn't think so at all. I was looking forward to a good scare. I wish I hadn't picked it up. I had high hopes for it because it was being listed in my book emails as a book to read. I guess I won't always listen to what is recommended.
    • 4/5
      After several weeks of reading light fantasy, I really needed to get into some serious books. The Last Werewolf, by Glen Ducan, came at the perfect time. The writing grabbed my attention and held it until I read so much that my eyes were sore, and the narrative tone is witty and interesting, fluid and enjoyable. It almost felt as if Ducan was telling the story to a group of friends, with such a beauty of language that everyone was hypnotised until he finished. The best: The Last Werewolf starts with the title character being told that he is indeed the last werewolf. Rather than picking the monstrous side alone, Ducan portrays a character who is both human and an animal (or monster, if you prefer). You see him and all the other characters live and react, and you care for them. Their behaviours are very deep and make the book worth being read if only for the characters. The worst: It's another werewolf story. Yes, the story takes a new perspective and fluid style, but vampires and werewolves are starting to be too mainstream for me. The imagery was sometimes excessively gory for my taste (I admit I skipped a scene or two). The literary descriptions were sometimes too far-fetched and strange, but that was not too frequent. However, I liked the winks the protagonist gives to the imaginary nature of werewolves; a smart way of standing out in a crowded genre.
    • 4/5
      After the brash language of the first chapter, I wasn't sure if I'd finish this book. But I actually ended up really liking it. I'll pick up the sequel at the library sometime.
    • 1/5
      I really disliked this. There were some gems in the purple prose, but for the most part it was dense and overblown. There were all sorts of tropes that were employed, and the narrator talked about how they were tropes, but that was it. There was zero attempt on the author's part to engage with or subvert them.

      Also, those last pages that were from the woman's POV--christ, is that what he thinks women think about??

      I do not, under any circumstances, recommend this. If you want a good literary horror werewolf book (that covers some of the same themes, even), read Mongrels by Stephen Graham Jones. It was a hundred times better than this drivel.
    • 1/5
      Enough! Boring. Repulsive at times and unnecessarily difficult language. The least points I give without looking as if I didn't rate it.
    • 1/5
      It reminded me of the moment in Revenge of the Nerd when Lewis declares that all nerds think about is sex. Over sexed and over written. Characters were charmless and it seems that the author may have never really spoken with a woman.Not even a guilty pleasure.
    • 4/5
      I really enjoyed the different take on werewolves and vampires, sexy in places and a writing style that really appealed to me.
    • 3/5
      "Fuck, kill, eat!" So says Jacob Marlow is the mantra of the lycanthrope, and this is his story. The biography of the last werewolf, sought after by the members of WOCOP, who have taken out, one at a time, the rest of his kind. This is not a "sparkly" werewolf story full of cuteness and pretty creatures. Its a gritty story about a suicidal werewolf that has lived too long, or so he thinks. I found myself both liking and being annoyed with this book. Most of my annoyance was at an excessive wordiness and a need to exhibit that he knew a lot of big words. As much as I appreciate the English language and the massive pool of words that can be pulled from, the fact is that it begins to come across as an insecure need to prove oneself when you overuse large and elaborate words. Its also writing down to your readership. That said, Mr. Duncan also has a very lovely style of writing when he wants to describe the more tender affections and feelings. I was swept away a couple of times with his tales of the time with his wife. Added to that, the stark contrast of the creature of primal necessity he becomes once a month. Its nice to see that there are still those that portray the creatures of nightmare tales like werewolves for what they are, terrifying vicious creatures that unlike the current Twilight genre, cannot become what they are not and deny their true nature. They kill. They kill humans. The wolf doesn't hold the same morals as the human. At the time of the full moon, the wolf rules. I would recommend this book. Its worth suffering through the strained and overly verbose passages.
    • 4/5
      Good to have a Hollywood-traditional werewolf back, with all the gore and excessive use of the "c" word you could ask for.
    • 5/5
      Delightfully witty & visceral at once...
    • 2/5
      Jake Marlowe our narrator is the last werewolf. This can cause problems. The Hunt want Jake dead but the vampires need him. Eternal life is not always easy.This book was another halloween read with the theme of werewolf. I have to say I really had high hopes for this tale, but I was left disappointed. The book had many positives but lots of negatives too.I liked the descriptions of the myths of the werewolf. Jake does a good job with his narrative of his nearly two hundred life as werewolf. The story being horror has plenty of gore, guts, blood and silver bullets.The story itself was interesting and the whole thing could have been so much more enjoyable if not for the constant sex, I am going to say Jake's erections and the overuse of the C word. There was no need for this in the story, the tale was good enough without it. I found myself heavily skipping pages to avoid the repetitive sexual antics of Jake. I thought the story was going to settle down until Talulla appears and away we go again.I wanted a good read about werewolves and with this book it didnt happen. It could have been but it wasn't. This is a shame because half of the book was taken up with unnecessary sex scenes. Very disappointed with this book and I won't be continuing with the next two books.
    • 3/5
      Read from June 03 to 05, 2011I read somewhere that this is Twilight for adults...let's be clear, if you like the romance of Twilight...the love story...the chaste love between a girl and her vampire...you won't like this book. This is the tale of Jake Marlowe...the last known werewolf. It's his survival story told through his journals. What a story it is...for one, werewolves like to have a lot of sex...and it isn't the kind with roses and chocolate. But If you can move beyond the gore, it is a really solid story. The last few chapters flew by and, of course, left me wanting a sequel...Three stars because of the slow start...
    • 2/5
      I read this because of some reviews that made it sound interesting. Forget it, listen to Warren Zevon if you want werewolves.
    • 3/5
      Jake Marlowe is the last werewolf. They've been hunted to near extinction and a werewolf bite can no longer turn a human. Jake doesn't care. At 200 years old, he's fed up with life and doesn't want to put up a fight when the hunters come for him. Jake narrates the story, and his voice is similar to that of Humbert Humbert from "Lolita". He's jaded, erudite, and able to make you understand, even like him, although he makes no attempt to conceal his Curse-born cruelty and murderous nature from the reader.

      Rather, we end up asking the tough question: what separates us from him? Run your tongue over your canine teeth. Have a rare steak. Recall the times you've lost yourself in passion. We all hunt, kill, and rut. We just conceal the fact beneath a veneer of civilization.

      This book isn't just a think piece. There's a plot, which I won't give away. But I will say that there's room for a sequel here. You see, there are also vampires in the world Duncan has created, and they have their own society, which is tantalizingly hinted at. Maybe Duncan will write a book concerning the vampires. We'll see.
    • 3/5
      [Read in eBook format 07/31-08/03/011]
    • 5/5
      Most of what I'd really like to say about this book are spoilers, so I'll leave it at this: discomfiting and vulgar and inescapably male and philosophical and lyrical and beautiful. I recommend listening to it, if you can, because Robin Sachs as the narrator was beyond perfect voice casting
    • 4/5
      This book was dark, filthy, and fairly awesome.
    • 4/5
      I was promised Brett Easton Ellis and Werewulf. This was delivered.
    • 4/5
      Jacob Marlowe is a two hundred years old werewolf. He's been everywhere, seen everything and is basically suffering antipathy from too much life. And once a month he eats people. He is fully aware of what he is doing, while he is doing it. He isn't the good guy and he knows it. Recent stories of werewolves paint werewolves as basically good, soulful, handsomely brooding, romantic creatures. The Last Werewolf takes things back to their basics. Glen Duncan's werewolf lives a desperate, violent life with very few attachments. Jacob faces a lavish, though stripped down existence, unable to really form meaningful relationships and ready to finally end his lonely existence. A secret order dedicated to the eradication of werewolves is only too happy to assist Jacob with his final wish. But as they say, life is full of surprises, even for a creature who has lived through so much of it. Readers who want their horror monsters with bite and blood will be happy for a good old fashioned werewolf who is unapologetic (mostly)about his lifestyle.
    • 3/5
      I finished "The Last Werewolf" yesterday. I enjoyed it although I thought the first half dragged a bit. There was quite a bit of explanation and agonizing in the first half. Lots more things happening in the last half. Still enjoyed the whole thing. Have the next in the series sitting off in a pile around here somewhere.
    • 4/5
      I heard a lot of hype about this book and how amazing it was. Well it wasnt the best book I have ever read and it wasn't the worst. Jake is the last werewolf in the world and boy does he like telling us about it. How sick he is of the world and everything is the same, he feels nothing and cant wait for it to be over. The first 2/3 of this book is all about this and being constantly reminded of it, lest we forgot from the previous page. The predictable happens in the last 1/3 of the book and it does lift the book. The ending is again predictable, but hey how else was it meant to end?? I found the addition of vampires pointless they only seemed to make an appearance to make sure this is a true "supernatural" book.I know this sounds very negative but I did enjoy parts of it, just don't believe all of the hype.
    • 2/5
      Like the reviewer below me, I failed to see what all the hype was about with this book, which is a shame, because it was fairly competently written.Jacob Marlowe believes himself to be the last of the werewolves, the rest having been hunted and killed to extinction by vampires. He is being pursued by two human hunters - Ellis and Grainer - who belong to an organisation called WOCOP, and the book mainly deals with his efforts to elude them.What jarred for me was the coarse language and obsession with sex (of the male fantasy variety influenced by porn of course). The frequent use of the 'c' word, which I usually don't have a problem with if it fits with the overall tone of the book, just felt gratuitous. Okay, so Jacob is an animal with animal instincts and urges, blah de blah. I found this a real pity as the writing had the potential to be good literary prose. These scenes just didn't fit with the rest of the book.Jacob refers to his 'wulf', sidestepping his moral responsibilities in much the same manner as Hesse's character in Steppenwolf. I had little sympathy for either of them.(***edited: could the editor of this book please note that the word is DUCT tape - not DUCK!)
    • 2/5
      Words commonly used to describe The Last Werewolf: "sexy", "quirky", "brilliant", "glorious", "witty,"... the list goes on and on, and I'm left wondering if I actually read the same book as everyone else. There wasn't one thing that I found in the book that made me think this was something even remotely warranted the kind of praise listed above. Jake is the last werewolf alive, and after nearly 200 years of living, and knowing he is now the last of his kind, he's ready to die. He is being hunted by an organization that wants to see him dead, and he's ready to let them have their way. The ennui in this book practically drips off the page, and I actually found myself wishing he'd just commit suicide and save everybody, me included, the trouble of having to finish the story. The first part of the book was absolutely tedious reading, but I stuck with it, thinking there was something that was going to grab me and pull me in, since so many people are just batshit over this book.Unfortunately, it wasn't until the last 1/3 of the book that anything picks up, and by that point, I just didn't give a shit what happened to Jake anymore. I found the ending fairly predictable and nothing shocked me about it.Needless to say, I don't know that I'll be picking anything by Glen Duncan up any time soon. I'm giving the book 2 stars, only because if the first 2/3 of the book were written like the last 1/3, I think I may have enjoyed it more. Maybe.
    • 4/5
      This was a wonderfully readable tale of Gothic horror mixed in with more modern elements of action and adventure. Its billed as a 'literary' take on urban fantasy, a description which may intrigue some and repel others. More than anything else though, its a very entertaining tale with a wonderfully well drawn central character ridden through with existential angst. A great take on the werewolf myth which really gives imbues the protagonist's internal and external life with the drama, pathos, angst, eroticism and power inherent but so little drawn upon in modern fantasy/horror novels.
    • 4/5
      Gothic horror meets the 21st century. (Is how I'd title my review if I were writing a formal review.) This certainly was more of a literary take on the werewolf phenomenon. I thought the writing was better than average and the characters fleshed out nicely, especially the character of Jacob/Jake, the titular "last" werewolf. At times the pacing was a little slow, but that was due to the epistolary nature of the first person narrative (written as journal entries). That aspect was cleverly crafted, especially how he (Jake) would have to wait until a lull in his personal life to catch up on his writing, and I thought it was a nice touch how Glen Duncan (the author) worked out the ending. (I won't reveal any spoilers here but the journal itself becomes a fixture in the story, sort of a metafictional component that I liked.)My one minor gripe was that Duncan over-used the literary trope of repetitive phrasing. For example (probably not spoiling anything here), early on in the novel when a lesser/tertiary character dies, Jake receives a note from the killer saying: "It wasn't painless, it wasn't quick." To show us that this has upset Jake, Duncan repeats this phrase several dozen (no kidding) times throughout the next several chapters. He does this with a great number of phrases in this novel. That tactic, used sparingly, can be powerful. Overused, it can have quite a different effect on the reader. Here, it was annoying.Second quirk, not really a gripe but something that stood out in my mind, was the language around the frequent and vigorous sex in this novel. Not that I mind frequent and vigorous sex, nor rough language, but it was a bit jarring. (I won't quote it here, but some of the verbiage could have come from a modern day porno.) Then I realized that werewolf pastiche that Duncan was creating was one of rough, earthy, instinctual and very sexual desires. He wouldn't coyly refer to his own genitalia as (something like) "my firm manhood." No, he'd call it his "throbbing c**k." So it sort of made sense. This was a no-nonsense werewolf, and it was *his* story after all, and he was telling it in the pages of his own journal. So why sugar-coat things. Good novel overall. I liked it enough to pick up one of Duncan's earlier works (I, Lucifer) and check that out. It's on my reading stack, somewhere near the top. I hope to get to it soon.
    • 3/5
      I was a bit let down after reading other reviews of this book. It was a fast, fun read, don't get me wrong. But it was hardly "literary." Basically, if it was a film, it would be an action flick. Sure, there was a little werewolf angst here and there, but it was plot, not character, driven and did not really break any new ground.
    • 4/5
      I wanted to love this book so badly. Such a good writing. The first third of the book was excellent. Then I barely could pass through the rest - which seems like nothing more but literary exercise and showcase of author's literary abilities - until it picked up in the end again. It was too uneven. Still, I never read a book about werewolves, vampires, etc that was written with such remarkable possession of language.
    • 4/5
      brilliant and clever - Duncan is truely a wordsmith. I actually had to look up a few of his chosen words to keep up. This book is naughty in a guilty secret type way and totally irreverent but worth every delicious bite Mike O'Neil - you must read this - less about werewolves and more about the chaos of the 21st century and our path of self destruction that will lead to extinction. ** Warning Not a Book for Under the age of 21**
    • 4/5
      Literary Fiction, Horror and a touch of Eroticism combine in this novel to make it a really good read. The world's last werewolf has seemingly given up on life and the need to evade hunters, both human and vampire. But things change and his outlook with it. This is definitely an adults only tale and a good one too.