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Title: Manhattan Hunt Club by John Saul ISBN: 0-449-00652-2 Publisher: Ballantine Books Pub. Date: 30 April, 2002 Format: Mass Market Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $7.99 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.84 (57 reviews)
Rating: 3
Summary: Cliched Suspense
Comment: John Saul has been writing clichéd horror novel after clichéd horror novel for years. Not that that's a bad thing - his novels are usually compelling and, at the very least, fun to read. Manhattan Hunt Club provides Saul fans with a different twist however. No supernatural occurrences, no possessed children, no haunted houses. Instead, Saul gives readers a pretty standard thriller.
As with most of Saul's novels, the characters are under-developed, the plot is straightforward, the action often intense but the outcome predictable. Manhattan Hunt Club is a simple novel yet the plot is interesting enough to draw readers in. I personally thought that Saul could have introduced a little more background about the NYC underground world. Additionally, as other reviews have pointed out, the coincidences in the novel were ridiculous. While the novel wasn't at all plausible, these coincidences made it seem even more ridiculous.
Overall, Manhattan Hunt Club is a fun read. Its not a fabulous novel, nor is it horrible. Just entertaining.
Rating: 4
Summary: A near-perfect thriller, inspired by a documentary film...
Comment: I recently listened to "the MHC" in audiobook format, while making a 12 hour drive across the Northeast United States. I've never read Saul before, I just picked up the audiobook at the library because it looked interesting. I was hooked after 20 minutes, and didn't stop listening for the entire drive.
The story is a non-supernatural thriller, written in the somewhat gory style of Stephen King. The characters are intriguing and there are plenty of plot twists and exciting action sequences, as well as some gruesome violence... I enjoyed the way the main characters are never physically described. There is a strong female character who is almost certainly black, but Saul never actually describes her. And the young female love interest is never descibed either. Is she a blonde, brunette, is she hot? Is she fat? It's totally up to the reader. Refreshing.
The setting of the story is the abandoned tunnels beneath Manhattan, where several thousand homeless people really do live in real life. The book borders on becoming preachy about the homeless, but it wasn't too annoying. For anyone who is intersted, there was a documentary film on the subject of the homeless in subterranean NYC that was an obvious inspiration for this book. Just search "Dark Days" in Amazon. It was a weird film, you may like it.
Rating: 3
Summary: Man(hattan) Hunt Club
Comment: Reading this book will take every reader back to their early school days of "The Most Dangerous Game" wherein the likeable, resourceful innocent is coldly and dispassionately pursued through the dark by the almost overwhelming evil.
This was my first dive into John Saul's dark and twisted imagination and I can't say I was disappointed. In its pages, you will find again absolute power corrupting absolutely, the strength and power of love and a wonderful receipe for "track rabbit".
Although the obvious plot and characters were somewhat predictable, I must confess that it was an overall good read. Perhaps that came from being a New York City homeboy who has spent way too many hours commuting below ground and wondering what really lies in those black tunnels. Perhaps I have always been curious about where the houseless spend most of their time. Maybe, I just like the thrill of the hunt. Maybe, you will too.
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Title: Midnight Voices by John Saul ISBN: 0449006530 Publisher: Ballantine Books Pub. Date: 04 March, 2003 List Price(USD): $7.99 |
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Title: Nightshade by John Saul ISBN: B00008RWPQ Publisher: Ballantine Books (Trd) Pub. Date: June, 1900 List Price(USD): $25.95 |
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Title: The Right Hand of Evil by John Saul ISBN: 0449005836 Publisher: Ballantine Books Pub. Date: 02 May, 2000 List Price(USD): $7.99 |
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Title: The Presence by John Saul ISBN: 0449002411 Publisher: Ballantine Books Pub. Date: 29 April, 1998 List Price(USD): $7.99 |
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Title: The Blackstone Chronicles : The Serial Thriller Complete in One Volume by John Saul ISBN: 044900192X Publisher: Ballantine Books Pub. Date: 10 February, 1998 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
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