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Summary: Awesome
Review: This book was go gripping, interesting, exciting. I can not say enough about it. I am just upset that I am done reading it and the story is over.
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Summary: Mystery and suspense at its best!
Review: New York has long been accused of having secret clubs that cater to the darker side of powerful people and this book truly covers the darkest of them. Filled with things that are distinctly New York: subways, sub dwellers, elitists, and power hungry executives, John Saul manages to bring the reader into the society that exists beneath the city streets and entertain them with plot twist after exciting plot twist. A unique telling of how the elite powermongers use the derelict world to achieve a means to an end and a cleaner city. The hunt is on!!!
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Summary: One of his best
Review: The Manhattan Hunt Club is John Saul's best book to date. A thriller that kept me at the edge of my seat (I read it in one night). The characters are well drawn and the pace is like a locomotive. It also opened my eyes to a world that I did not know existed.
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Summary: Interesting Saul
Review: A young man has been convicted of murdering a woman in the subway. No one who loves him believes he could have committed such a heinous crime, and even the judge is leary, and he is only sentenced to a year in prision. While being transported from one facility to another, there is a car crash - from which he is the only survivor, and he is led into the subway by a mysterious man. He imagines that he has escaped, but finds himself trapped in a game in which he is anything but free.The story itself is interesting, but fairly reminiscent of something else I've read (maybe the Most Dangerous Game??). Anyway, if you're a Sau fan or not, you should enjoy this twisted tale.
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Summary: Fast and Suspenseful Read
Review: John Saul has always been a master of horror, but now with this terror in a totally urban setting. This is suspense at its best. Waiting for the movie........... Fast pace, detailed oriented. This book does not mess around. Thank you for a thought provoking journey under the streets of Manhattan.
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Summary: Interesting Story...
Review: Interesting story that makes you wonder if there really is a "Manhattan Hunt Club." The story seemed to flow well until the end...overall a pretty good book.
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Summary: Typical Saul...
Review: The first John Saul book I read was "Nathaniel", which kinda hooked me for life. Saul truly creates a world that draws you in and won't let go. "Suffer the Children" was probably his most brutal and unpleasant plot, so apparently there's a substantial audience who likes this sort of thing. The coarse brutality in "Suffer..." was disturbing to me, but I was previously hooked, and continued to read everything by Saul I could find and I think it's because I could always find an interesting plot line with a good amount of intrigue. MHH is no different, and Saul consistant. One thing I like about Saul's writing is that nobody...and I mean NOBODY...is without fault or weakness. There are no real heroes, which pretty much puts all his characters on the same level as "normal human beings". This is admirable. Can you imagine people of such psychotic tendencies can control such a vast syndicate? (I'm kidding!) Mr. Saul also seems to take delight in the torture and/or death of children. Call me a wimp, but it bothers me. I would recommend "Darkness", "Hellfire", "Shadows" and, especially, "Sleepwalk". Saul usually sets all of his books in a different geographical place, and he'll make you feel like you're really there, whether the swamps of Florida, the deserts of New Mexico or the frozen plains of North Dakota. I still don't know why I like John Saul's writing so much, but I'll continue to be drawn in as long as he can find a new and exciting locale to take me.
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Summary: sloppy Joe suspense
Review: On the surface this book is a good read. The suspense will make you want to keep reading or listening on. However, one may find getting through all the stereo types used in this story a bit much. In addition the nice wrapped up ending with a big bow was not to realistic. Still as a work of fiction it wasn't bad but if Saul was indirectly trying to make a point about the homeless he missed the mark. In this book they are portrayed as ruthless who can be turned into murderers for a few bucks. Gay folk are either pathetic or homicidal; and everybody rich or poor is rotten to the core say for our hero of course who is perfect in every way with a perfect girlfriend to boot. Give me a break! As well, how many times did the batteries run out in order to move the story along or how many times did characters bump into each other on the subway. Sorry, once twice okay but not over and over again. A good attempt but could have been more developed and more realistic. I mean waht was the point for the club leader to go into the tunnels? Another dumb ploy to get the bad guys? Lets hope the next one is a bit more better.
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Summary: are you afraid of the dark?
Review: I love John Saul and have read everyone of his books but this one
was not like all the rest. It takes place under the streets in total darkness with rats &
slime. Two men are being hunted by killers who have guns, lights & know where they are going and how to get out when they want. The two men have one flashlight without extra batteries. If you don't like the idea of this happening to you this will not be a book to read. It is very realistic because John is such a wonderful author. I had to keep putting it down because it was so real. I do have to say it was not my favorite John Saul book but in parts is was very scary. If you wouldn't mind being trapped in pitch black darkness with big rats you will really like this book. It is still JOHN SAUL.
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Summary: Not up to par with his other works.
Review: Ok,I have read all but three of John Saul's novels and I must say that he truly knows how to turn out some chilling books. I'm sad to say that this is not one of them. I am sure by now you already know what this book is about and I wont bore you with a synopsis. John is great at creating memorable characters that you truly feel for and you root them on all the way to the very end. I didn't find myself doing that here. I was able to predict who would be killed and by whom. I did not find myself walking around with this book reading evey word and becoming engrossed with the story. What I did find myself doing was putting it down for days and then coming to it later. I found myself wanting to read other books, but I still pressed on hoping it would get better. It never really did. The wrapping up of loose ends, I felt, was a far stretch. I know that as a reader you're exepcted to have a suspension of belief. But this is also a two way street because the author is supposed to give you reasons and environments to create that suspension. John Saul failed in doing so with this book. I highly recommend his earlier works which, I feel, rival some of the best King or Koontz books. They are SECOND CHILD, GUARDIAN, NATHANIEL, THE HOMING, RIGHT HAND OF EVIL, BLACKSTONE CHRONICLES, and BLACK LIGHTNING. John Saul is not an author who is going down hill, he just tried something different and missed the mark. I'm sure his next one, MIDNIGHT VOICES, will be absolutely amazing!!!
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