Douglas Preston
Mass Market Paperback | Pages: 564 pages Rating: 4.18 | 30810 Users | 1527 Reviews
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| Title | : | Still Life With Crows (Pendergast #4) |
| Author | : | Douglas Preston |
| Book Format | : | Mass Market Paperback |
| Book Edition | : | Anniversary Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 564 pages |
| Published | : | July 1st 2004 by Grand Central Publishing (first published July 1st 2003) |
| Categories | : | Thriller. Mystery. Fiction. Horror. Mystery Thriller. Suspense. Crime |
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YES!! Another great addition in the Pendergast series! I’m sure you can you tell I’m excited to do this review, right? You’ve got to understand that my enthusiasm for this book is also for the series. Almost all the books in this series are entertaining, fun and thrilling. The tension is just lights out. The books are just so good! I mean, isn't that what we want when we read? To be entertained? Thanks Terry for another great buddy read while we travel down Pendergast lane! So, how does this book start? It starts in a small town in Kansas with rows of corn ready for harvest and a killer on the loose. I really thought the setting of Kansas would not work for me in this book and oh boy, I was wrong. Let me paint a scene for you so you’ll get the idea. You’re running and gasping through 12’ rows of corn in the darkest of night. Trying not to trip, you’re completely isolated and lost. There’s a killer racing behind you. You can hear their heavy footsteps as they pace you in the darkness while they scream "MuuuuuuUUUUUUHHHHHHHH!!" Yeah, corn can be frightening folks. Next time you eat some corn on the cob, make sure no one’s breathing loud next to you. o.O Preston and Child are masters at scaring the shit out of you. Seriously, I hope this is on their tombstones when they die because it will be fitting. I read horror books a lot and there were moments in this book that scared the living bejesus outta me. In regards to my ridiculous and sporadic review, this book was great. And awesome. And I loved every damn, corn eatin' minute of it!Particularize Books As Still Life With Crows (Pendergast #4)
| Original Title: | Still Life with Crows |
| ISBN: | 0446612766 (ISBN13: 9780446612760) |
| Edition Language: | English |
| Series: | Pendergast #4 |
| Characters: | Aloysius X.L. Pendergast, Corrie Swanson, Sheriff Dent Hazen, Tad Franklin, Winifred Kraus, Smit Ludwig, Bushy Jim Draper, Art Ridder, Dr. Stanton Chauncy, Lonny Gasparilla |
| Setting: | Medicine Creek, Kansas(United States) Kansas(United States) |
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Ratings: 4.18 From 30810 Users | 1527 ReviewsAssess Based On Books Still Life With Crows (Pendergast #4)
Corn.Food metaphors have been the order of the day (pun intended) thus far in reviewing Messrs. Preston and Childs Pendergast series (hot dog, anyone?), and so Im compelled to continue that tradition, because if I dont, I have absolutely no framing device for this review. For a Kansas-set book that takes place amidst acres and acres of oppressive and unrelenting corn fields, there could be no other choice (well, there are some other thematically appropriate foods I could select based on theYou can smell the farmland and hear the Kansas winds rustling through fields of corn as the erudite FBI agent with a touch of the supernatural about him, Pendergast, brings to the heartland his dark suit, 1959 Rolls-Royce Silver Wraith, and seemingly endless knowledge of the strange and otherworldly.Squeezed between The Cabinet of Curiosities and Brimstone, two of the best in the series, Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child created another terrific novel that is part mystery, part thriller, and
I guess I should have expected it. After three great books, the law of averages finally caught up with Agent Pendergast. While this book is still much better than most of the dross out there, this is easily the weakest so far due to two reasons. The first being the over-reliance on the memory palace (this was ok in The Cabinet of Curiosities) because in this book it acts as a deux ex machina. The second is the trite resolution (no spoilers). This book has excellent writing and characterization
YES!! Another great addition in the Pendergast series!Im sure you can you tell Im excited to do this review, right? Youve got to understand that my enthusiasm for this book is also for the series. Almost all the books in this series are entertaining, fun and thrilling. The tension is just lights out.The books are just so good! I mean, isn't that what we want when we read? To be entertained?Thanks Terry for another great buddy read while we travel down Pendergast lane!So, how does this book
Revisited ReviewOn the back of my edition of 'Still Life With Crows' there is a blurb that states: These guys are masters at scaring the hell out of people. Turns out... they actually are. In this case, it was certainly true. I'd been reading a slew of horror and suspense novels, and this one was certainly one of the scariest. Some other reviewers weren't too fond of the setting, but I loved it. I've always enjoyed 'Small Town Horror' settings. No, this isn't quite the same thing as 'Salem's Lot
I really enjoyed this one, so much more than the last one.Like another reviewer said, Preston & Child held out to the very end to reveal the why of the crime. Maybe I liked this one so much because Pendergast was on vacation, or maybe I liked it so much because I liked his assistant so much, as I am sure many of us do. Preston & Child did a real good job of telling the story of an abused teenager who was bullied by her peers and was going to make it out of her small town.As I was
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