Savages
Books | Fiction / Humorous / General
3.8
(119)
Don Winslow
A New York Times, Entertainment Weekly, and Chicago Sun-Times Favorite Book of the Year“A revelation…This is Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid on autoload.” —Stephen King, Entertainment Weekly “Startling…Stylish…Mega-cool.” —Janet Maslin, The New York TimesBen, Chon, and O are twentysomething best friends living the dream in Southern California. Together they have made a small fortune producing premium grade marijuana, a product so potent that the Mexican Baja Cartel demands a cut. When Ben and Chon refuse to back down, the cartel kidnaps O, igniting a dizzying array of high-octane negotiations and stunning plot twists as they risk everything to free her. The result is a provocative, sexy, and darkly engrossing thrill ride, an ultracontemporary love story that will leave you breathless.“A spellbinding tour de force that is utterly impossible to put down.” —Christopher Reich“This is the story of love’s costs—and the acceptance of whatever that cost entails.” —Randy Michael Signor, Chicago Sun-Times“A wickedly funny and smart novel.” —Janet Evanovich“Winslow’s marvelous, adrenaline-juiced roller coaster of a novel…is both a departure and a culmination, pyrotechnic braggadocio and deep meditation on contemporary American culture.” —Sarah Weinman, Los Angeles Times
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Author
Don Winslow
Pages
302
Publisher
Simon and Schuster
Published Date
2012-05-29
ISBN
1451667159 9781451667158
Ratings
Google: 4
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"This is a very well down story. Sadly the movie does not do this book the justice it deserves."
Ryan Fisher
"Now this one, I almost quit about halfway though. I had a hard time following the many characters and plot. Once it got about half way, the characters stopped being introduced and described and the story began to go together more fluidly.
The chapters aren’t exactly chapters ( as there are over 200) and the book isn’t always written in sentences.
There’s lots of Spanish words randomly thrown in with no translation, only context clues. Even with taking 4 years of Spanish in high school and trying to learn more of the language through Babble a year ago, there were some terms even context clues couldn’t help me figure out.
The plot itself was lack-luster and really could have been any book about a drug cartel; nothing special here. "
Jama Glenn
"This was the first KJ Parker book I had read (around 4 years ago) and since have gone through Folding Knife, some of the Engineer books and his standalones. Reading it a second time, there were points that I loved but others that feel rushed on a second read.<br/><br/>Calojan is awesome, he is a much more memorable character the second time around and he is wholly unique in that he isn't the strong and dashing leader, instead weedy, but brilliant. <br/><br/>What I didn't like the second time round was the ending. It felt rushed, ultimately I loved the climax, a much more organized fall of the Roman empire, but there could have been more lead in for it."
Wesley Spence
