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Rig
Rig 42 is the largest and most advanced oil rig the world has ever known. Just after the rig goes on-line, terrifying and eerie radio signals are received, followed by silence. The rig has hit something, and whatever it is has completely wiped out the crew. The company is desperate to find out what’s happened. A team of mercenaries and oil rig experts is dispatched to determine what the danger is and if it can be eliminated. They find that the rig hit something that had been buried for centuries…something older than evil itself…something that leaves only the unbearable screams of the tortured behind…something that hungers. Rig is a story of terror. It is a terror that can take any shape. It is a terror that will destroy a man’s body and tear apart his soul.
- GenresHorror
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First published August 11, 2008
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About the author
Bryan W. Alaspa
91 books173 followersI was born in the fine year of 1971 in Park Ridge, IL. I am a life long Chicago resident and I love the city. I spent a few years in St. Louis, as well. I knew I wanted to write from the time I sat down at my mom's electric typewriter in the 3rd grade. Now I do write. I write freelance and articles for online news sources. I write horror, thrillers and detective novels. I also write non-fiction in true crime and history genres. I publish my fiction myself as an indie publisher and write and have found an audience for my work among ebook fans. I publish for Kindle, Nook and other tablets and devices at Smashwords.com. My non-fiction is usually published in print, but that may soon change as ebooks become more and more of the norm.
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January 22, 2023
It's an interesting read and to be honest a mistake on my behalf, I was meant to read a different book but selected this one.
Fun and easy enough to read, I can't imagine it being turned into a movie or series anytime soon.
My biggest bugbear with this book, the spelling and grammar was appalling. I read it on my kindle and whoever transcribed it into an e-book needs to go back to school. So many words either incorrectly spelt or just not making sense.
Fun and easy enough to read, I can't imagine it being turned into a movie or series anytime soon.
My biggest bugbear with this book, the spelling and grammar was appalling. I read it on my kindle and whoever transcribed it into an e-book needs to go back to school. So many words either incorrectly spelt or just not making sense.
January 16, 2024
A fun read
I enjoyed reading this story by Bryan Alaspa. It was not scary, but it was tense at times. I liked the characters J.D. and Karman. I read it in two days which I don’t do often.
I enjoyed reading this story by Bryan Alaspa. It was not scary, but it was tense at times. I liked the characters J.D. and Karman. I read it in two days which I don’t do often.
September 26, 2019
Very poorly written, flat characters, and doesn't do much with it's premise.
September 23, 2022
I liked it. A rig is an awesome place for horror, and when you add an ancient force and some kick ass characters, it's a recipe for action and unrelenting violence and mayhem.
August 4, 2011
I love having a kindle. I love how I can browse, purchase, and instantly read 1,000’s of books and prices sometimes so cheap the books are free. But every once in a while, despite low price and generally good reviews, a book I read is so horrifyingly bad, I feel that I have wasted my time. That book was “Rig”.
Before I tear this books apart, I must admit, there were a few small things going for it. One, it was dirt cheap at only 99 cents, and although I hated this book, at least I didn’t waste any money. Two, while done horribly and written so poorly, “Rig”’s story is actually not that bad. And finally, at least Bryan Alaspa was able to get his name out there (even if it’s with this bad novel).
I honestly don’t even know where to begin with the horror that “Rig” was. Like I said, the idea was a decent one, and even throughout the story, there are sparks of some originality and creativity, but it is nearly impossible to see through the disastrous spelling, punctuation, and juxtaposition errors. I can usually overlook a misspelled word here and there, or a missing quotation mark once in a while, but after 100’s of problems in “Rig” I almost couldn’t even get through to the end, as each mistake became glaringly obvious. Her replaced with here, up replaced with a single p, crashed replaced with crashes. I mean, I could seriously go on and on, but I would probably fill up 6 pages worth of mistakes. Oh and what, pray tell me, is the reason for the totally random paragraphs of italics. I’m reading and all of a sudden theres a whole 15 or 16 sentences that are italicized for no good reason.
Then there are the characters. Oh boy are these ridiculous. You have Kevin Iler, who’s favorite word seems to be “f*ck” and hardly anything else. Not to mention he constantly screams at everyone and is so stereotypically CEO that it’s almost funny. You have J.D. and Karmen, the hired mercenaries who wouldn’t be so bad if Alaspa didn’t have this weird fascination with his characters being not only expert marksmen but swordsmen as well, or the fact that J.D. who is supposed to be the leader is a horrible one at that, randomly punching women in the face, and constantly losing track of his team. And of course you have the various other smaller characters like Lazlo, Mark, and Rhonnie who are of little to no significance here other than to take up page space.
And then there is Alaspa’s writing style that is so bad and so 3rd grade, it’s easy to see why this was pushed straight to kindle and never published. Like I said with “Clickers” and Roy Garton’s “Ravenous” there seems to be a real lack of imagination on Alaspa’s part. How many times does he have to drill into the readers head the sounds of the screaming. Really, there were at least 6 or 7 times I can think of that the sounds of screaming were “screams of pain and torture”. The thesaurus gives me the words “abuse”, “ill-treatment”, “persecution”, “suffering”, “anguish”, and “affliction.” That only took me a measly 30 seconds to look up, which is obviously more time Mr. Alaspa spent writing this whole mess of a novel.
That’s not even considering the 2 wide open plot holes. What made the first hearers of the “screams of pain and torture” randomly explode? What was the evil entity that was released from the drilled hole? Are we just supposed to come to some random conclusion on our own? Come on, that’s really a sad cop-out if you ask me.
Have I written an eBook and posted it on amazon or smashwords? No, and I suppose I should follow the saying “You can’t knock it til you try it.” However, just because you release an ebook for a measly 99 cents is not an excuse to make a quick paycheck. “Rig” was a true disaster in my opinion, but hey, if you like shallow characters, weak plot development, and an entire arsenal of choppy sentences, misspelled and misplaced words and an ending that makes you go “huh?” then who knows, maybe “Rig” will be right for you.
Before I tear this books apart, I must admit, there were a few small things going for it. One, it was dirt cheap at only 99 cents, and although I hated this book, at least I didn’t waste any money. Two, while done horribly and written so poorly, “Rig”’s story is actually not that bad. And finally, at least Bryan Alaspa was able to get his name out there (even if it’s with this bad novel).
I honestly don’t even know where to begin with the horror that “Rig” was. Like I said, the idea was a decent one, and even throughout the story, there are sparks of some originality and creativity, but it is nearly impossible to see through the disastrous spelling, punctuation, and juxtaposition errors. I can usually overlook a misspelled word here and there, or a missing quotation mark once in a while, but after 100’s of problems in “Rig” I almost couldn’t even get through to the end, as each mistake became glaringly obvious. Her replaced with here, up replaced with a single p, crashed replaced with crashes. I mean, I could seriously go on and on, but I would probably fill up 6 pages worth of mistakes. Oh and what, pray tell me, is the reason for the totally random paragraphs of italics. I’m reading and all of a sudden theres a whole 15 or 16 sentences that are italicized for no good reason.
Then there are the characters. Oh boy are these ridiculous. You have Kevin Iler, who’s favorite word seems to be “f*ck” and hardly anything else. Not to mention he constantly screams at everyone and is so stereotypically CEO that it’s almost funny. You have J.D. and Karmen, the hired mercenaries who wouldn’t be so bad if Alaspa didn’t have this weird fascination with his characters being not only expert marksmen but swordsmen as well, or the fact that J.D. who is supposed to be the leader is a horrible one at that, randomly punching women in the face, and constantly losing track of his team. And of course you have the various other smaller characters like Lazlo, Mark, and Rhonnie who are of little to no significance here other than to take up page space.
And then there is Alaspa’s writing style that is so bad and so 3rd grade, it’s easy to see why this was pushed straight to kindle and never published. Like I said with “Clickers” and Roy Garton’s “Ravenous” there seems to be a real lack of imagination on Alaspa’s part. How many times does he have to drill into the readers head the sounds of the screaming. Really, there were at least 6 or 7 times I can think of that the sounds of screaming were “screams of pain and torture”. The thesaurus gives me the words “abuse”, “ill-treatment”, “persecution”, “suffering”, “anguish”, and “affliction.” That only took me a measly 30 seconds to look up, which is obviously more time Mr. Alaspa spent writing this whole mess of a novel.
That’s not even considering the 2 wide open plot holes. What made the first hearers of the “screams of pain and torture” randomly explode? What was the evil entity that was released from the drilled hole? Are we just supposed to come to some random conclusion on our own? Come on, that’s really a sad cop-out if you ask me.
Have I written an eBook and posted it on amazon or smashwords? No, and I suppose I should follow the saying “You can’t knock it til you try it.” However, just because you release an ebook for a measly 99 cents is not an excuse to make a quick paycheck. “Rig” was a true disaster in my opinion, but hey, if you like shallow characters, weak plot development, and an entire arsenal of choppy sentences, misspelled and misplaced words and an ending that makes you go “huh?” then who knows, maybe “Rig” will be right for you.
February 19, 2017
Just ok
A fast read. Needed editing. Number of typos. Somewhat silly plot, like a made for tv movie. I'm glad this book was free.
A fast read. Needed editing. Number of typos. Somewhat silly plot, like a made for tv movie. I'm glad this book was free.
August 10, 2016
Wow scary very scary!
The Rig is like Phantoms you know the movie I forgotten who wrote the book oh well but like Phantoms the movie it takes place on a oil platform people call a oil rig. It has mystery and suspense horror and action. With great ending with revenge.
It starts with ear splitting death to a really Big Bang. Self explanatory when read. Ha ha ha! Well people may the fright be with you.
Sounds like I like it.
The Rig is like Phantoms you know the movie I forgotten who wrote the book oh well but like Phantoms the movie it takes place on a oil platform people call a oil rig. It has mystery and suspense horror and action. With great ending with revenge.
It starts with ear splitting death to a really Big Bang. Self explanatory when read. Ha ha ha! Well people may the fright be with you.
Sounds like I like it.
September 29, 2011
Overall it's a good book. I would have given it 3 stars but the number of typos - mane instead of man, you instead of your, and in a few spots referring to a female character as 'he' forced me to give it 2 stars instead. I just expect that if I'm paying for an ebook, it should not be so full of typos and grammatical errors.
August 21, 2008
My first straight genre novel. It's a horror novel about what happens when the world's largest oil rig punches through into something terrifying.
August 15, 2012
Great potential that just fizzled out in a short story - not a complete disaster though, worth at least one read.
May 26, 2014
This was short and sweet - a decent story with plenty of action marred by typos and bad editing.
November 3, 2014
Very good horror story. I've would have given five stars but I was expecting a sea monster and it turned out to be a different kind of monster. Still, very good.
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