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Title: Testament by David Morrell ISBN: 0-446-36448-7 Publisher: Warner Books Pub. Date: 01 April, 1993 Format: Mass Market Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $5.99 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.74 (23 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: A book that makes me kiss my children each morning.
Comment: When i turned the third page I had to stop for a breath. My god what kind of book will this be ? i had to ask. I looked over at my daughter in her high chair and had a compolsion to take her milk away , just for saftys sake.
The rest of the book caught me and held me tight "I" became the caracter and was trying to save my family.
Never befor has a book so profoundly affected me in the sence of "Do I have that type of courge and conviction? "
If you have never picked up a morrell novel before ..pick this one. then enjoy a read of your life...and maybe your familys as well.
Rating: 2
Summary: One of those books that seem never-ending
Comment: A writer badmouths a terrorist group in print and they start a vendetta against his family. The family is forced to flee, and the chase is on. And on. And on. And on. The more it goes on, the more the pace of the book - paradoxically - flags. I lost track of the fact that the poor guy and his family were being hunted like dogs. What should have been a genuinely terrifying ordeal often read at times like a guide to equine care, outdoor survival etc. etc. I got the feeling Mr Morrell was too concerned about getting his 'facts' right, rather than just getting on with the story. Still, at least I now know how to tether a horse so it can graze without wandering off during the night.
It's probably significant that, apart from the assorted scenes of violence (shoot-outs, fire-bombings etc.), the pursuers remain basically vague, shadowy characters who could be anyone at all. Which I take to mean that most of our fears are in our head, and can be found wherever we choose to find them.
This was the first book by David Morrell that I read (having been assured that it was 'one of the great horror novels'). Uh-uh. While it wasn't exactly bad, it was awfully slow-moving at times and, on balance, I wouldn't rush to read another one.
Rating: 1
Summary: Too close to Hemingway for comfort...
Comment: When I initially read this book, I would have given it a higher rating--after all, Mr. Morrell was a prof at U of I; "First Blood" was an all-time favorite of mine; and the technical detail of "Testament" was superb. BUT... I later read Ernest Hemingway's "Big Two Hearted River" for a college lit class. The similarities between Morrell's Rueben dining on "canned beans and canned spagetti" were very, um, "similar" (eerily so...) to Nick Adam's dining experience in the wilderness of Michigan's Upper Peninulsa... Right down to both characters uttering happily through a mouthful of hot food: "Crise, Jesus Crise..." Coincidence? Well, probably--after all, a couple of letters weren't quite the same (sub "t" for "e"). Still, I was pretty disappointed... It certainly tempered my enjoyment of Mr. Moreell's subsequent offerings. Has anyone else ever noted this coincidence??
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Title: Totem, The by David Morrell ISBN: 0446364460 Publisher: Warner Books Pub. Date: 01 June, 1995 List Price(USD): $6.50 |
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Title: Extreme Denial by David Morrell ISBN: 0446603961 Publisher: Warner Books Pub. Date: 01 April, 1997 List Price(USD): $7.50 |
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Title: Desperate Measures by David Morrell ISBN: 0446602396 Publisher: Warner Books Pub. Date: 01 July, 1995 List Price(USD): $7.50 |
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Title: Blood Oath : Vol. 1 by David Morrell ISBN: 0312953453 Publisher: St. Martin's Press Pub. Date: 15 October, 1994 List Price(USD): $6.99 |
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Title: Covenant of the Flame, The by David Morrell ISBN: 0446362921 Publisher: Warner Books Pub. Date: 01 May, 1992 List Price(USD): $7.50 |
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