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Title: Run by Douglas E. Winter ISBN: 0-375-40838-X Publisher: Knopf Pub. Date: 14 March, 2000 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $23.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.89 (37 reviews)
Rating: 4
Summary: Run
Comment: An interesting and stylish thriller about arms dealer Lane and a deal that goes very wrong.
Winter's strength here is his style -- original, fast-moving, and a successful use of first-person to show a character's unique voice. I don't normally like books featuring gangsters, but Winter manages to make them vivid without romanticism. Jinx, a major secondary character, is more appealing than he has any right to be. Here and there Winter slips into sentimental hyperbole, but for the most part the language is taut.
The speed of the plot here is breakneck but all the pieces seem to hang together as one layer of conspiracy after another is revealed. At their height events get more than a little improbable, but readers may well be caught up enough not to care. Obviously, there's a great deal of violence, but I only felt it was gratuitous in one place, the exploding of a helicopter with uninvolved "civilians" on board.
For a book that isn't my normal kind of read, I really felt this was well done and I recommend it to readers who enjoy hardcore thrillers.
Rating: 5
Summary: Best thriller of the 21st century . . . so far.
Comment: Douglas E. Winter's RUN is indeed one of the best books so far this year. It took me 20 minutes to catch my breath after reading it. Winter's writing style takes on the speed of an action adventure movie--but faster. This book is the kind of action macho men dream about. Yet, more than that it is a superb story with masterful writing that anyone will appreciate. From page one, Winter pulls you into his story and never lets you go. His characters are fascinating, and though they seem superhuman, you can easily put yourself in their shoes. This novel, like so many great ones, is about the human condition--ugly as it may be. It is a cultural litmus test that digs into where we are as a society, and where we are going in the next millennium. Will our society of guns and violence and racism follow us into the 21st century, or will we see the light? You will laugh reading this book, and you may even cry, but most of all you'll feel exhilarated and you'll want to read it again. It's fun, it's fast, it tells a great story and has a wonderful meaning. So, chalk this one up on your grocery list of must-have books for your library.
Rating: 1
Summary: Ouch
Comment: What a painful experience that was. I couldn't even finish this book, it didn't hold my attention, the characters were badly drawn and the plot was flimsy.
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Title: Bangkok 8 by John Burdett ISBN: 1400040442 Publisher: Knopf Pub. Date: 03 June, 2003 List Price(USD): $24.00 |
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Title: Silent Joe by T. Jefferson Parker ISBN: 0786890037 Publisher: Hyperion Pub. Date: 01 April, 2002 List Price(USD): $7.99 |
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