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Summary: Death of Low Rating, Watch the Stars Rise
Review: "DEATHWATCH" IS AN AWSOME BOOK! Ben goes with Madec, a big city man, into the desert. Unfortunately Ben hits what you would call "A Road Bump". Robb White, the author, gets right into the story. He doesn't mess around with it. I advise any person age ten and up to read this. When Ben finally realizes what might happen, it could be too late. This is a book that keeps you on the edge of your seat. "DEATHWATCH" also is a book that won't let you put it down.
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Summary: great book for excitment
Review: I thought Death Watch was a great book. If you like a book that does not take long to get into this book is for you. Within the first 30 pages you can't get your nose out of it. Death Watch is also very exciting being chased by a psycho with a .358 magnum I think qualifies this book is great for a person who wants to read a larger book quickly because you cant stop.
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Summary: Deathwatch Review
Review: All in all, this was a great book. I liked the suspense, and the cliffhangers. I would recomend this book to anyone who likes survivor stories. The only part of this book that I didn't like was the ending. Though all turns out good, the author has a way to dig into your fingernails and grind your teeth by how the characters act. Madec also made your blood boil, by how good he could lie. The doctor, saving the day, was the hero of this book! By finding something disregarded in a trash can, saved Ben from spending the rest of his life confined in a cell. If you like action, suspense, and turmoil, then take a ride along to the extremes of Ben's human abilities.
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Summary: Deathwatch
Review: The book was well written and very interesting. I would reccomend this book athough the ending is a little cofusing but when you figure it out it is very good and I enjoyed it.
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Summary: a trip to forget
Review: I would highly recommend the book Deathwatch. It starts where this big city guy goes out west to hunt big horn sheep. He hires a local towns man for a hunting guide. They leave to go hunting big horn sheep. But then things turn around. Check out this book to find out what happens on the trip.
I enjoyed reading the book Deathwatch mainly because of the suspense. If you enjoy reading suspense and or hunting stories this would be one of the best reads. This book is for almost any age group. This book shows the reality and cruelness of mankind.
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Summary: Deathwatch
Review: Deathwatch is a book of high suspense. There's Madec, the sterotypical big city bad guy, who's life is full of lying, scams, and money. Then there's Ben who's your small town good guy. He's honest, loyal, and believes everyone is good. When Bed decides to be Madec's hunting guide in the desert, sparks fly between the two. Ben was born and raised in the desert and thinks he would never have a problem surviving. Well, he was wrong. Ben has to overcome many obstacles in this book; including finding food, water, shelter, and much, much more! This book is great for thrill seakers. It's fast moving, but like most books has some slow parts. It's a very descriptive book and at times it's too descriptive. The characters in the book come to life as this mystery unveils. The author contrasts the characters well, giving debth and showing many faces of the characters personalities.
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Summary: Review on Deathwatch
Review: Deathwatch was a book based on survival. Ben (a college student) goes deep into the desert with Madec (a bighorn hunter). Madec accidentally kills an old man and with fear that he will lose his license to hunt the bighorn, Madec does not want to report the accident. Ben contradicts Madec and insists that they report the accident. Madec makes a deal with Ben; if Ben could make it to the police station without anything but underwear and Madec toturing him continuously, then Ben can report the accident. After long days of grieving, Ben steals his Jeep back from Madec by shooting him with a slingshot. He ties Madec up and reports the accident, only Ben is being framed. Eventually, there is enough evidence to support Ben's story.
I gave this book four stars. The author described everthing and used imagery. Although sometimes, he went into detail a little too much. The characters in this book have opposite personalities. The author also always kept the reader "hanging" by using so much suspense and thrill. I recommend this book to ages 13 and above.
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Summary: Ben's survival
Review: This book is about a young college student named Ben who is looking for a way to make some extra money for school. During the summer, a rich hunter from California named Madec, hires Ben to take him out in the desert and show him where he can find big horn sheep. While they're hunting, Madec accidently shoots an old prospector that he had mistaken for a sheep. Ben wanted to turn the dead body into the sheriff as an accident but Madec refused to. He forced Ben to take his clothes off and walk home with no food or water. This story shows Ben's journey to survival and how he makes it without food, clothes, and water for so long. On his journey, Madec follows him everywhere and makes sure that he doesn't get home. In the end, this whole problem turns around and ends up pointing at Ben. Read this book so you can see whether or not Ben survives this huge mess.
My opinion of Deathwatch was that it was very different from most books that I've ever read. It was a lot about survival and what Ben did to survive. I think that this was mainly a guy book becasue of the topic it was on. The ending is a real surprise and when I was about three-fourths through the book, I didn't want to stop reading it. I would recommend this book for kids older than 12 because some parts got a litte confusing and I don't think anyone younger than that would be interested in it. My favorite part of the book is how Ben was so honest. Even when times were rough, he still went out of his way just to make things right. This book definitely deserves at least four stars.
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Summary: Deathwatch Isn't Too....Er....Deadly.
Review: Less than twenty pages into the book, the plot of this bone-chilling novel unravels: Madec, one of our main charactors, "accidently" murders an old, nameless prospector, claiming to mistake him for the Bighorn ram that he was intending to hunt for in the desert area in the first place. Ben, who was the only person to accompany Madec into the desert, and the only witness to the crime, wants to do the right thing and turn this dead prospector into the town sherriff nearby. Madec, however, is a selfish man, and he knows that turning in a dead man with a bullet in his body isn't going to let him off the hook easily. So after Ben refuses to pretend the whole thing never happened, Madec decides to prevent Ben from EVER tellig the real story by sending Ben, half-naked into the desert to die of thirst, heat stroke and starvation....What Madec doesn't know is that Ben isn't going to gve up without a fight. After taking refuge in a butte and living off of dirty water and small birds, Ben regains his strength enough to overpower Madec. After a fantastic capture, Ben takes Madec and the dead man into town, hoping for Madec to get what he deserves and see if anyone knows the deceased old man. What Ben doesn't realize is that Madec has done an excellent job of framing the murder to make it look like Ben had done the dirty deed. After an intriguing battle in court, Medical examinations of the bullets in the old man's body show that Madec was really the one who murdered the prospector.
This book really had me on the edge of my seat: The book had an ominous feeling about it; you knew something bad was going to happen before things got any better. A battle between life and death was a huge thing, right up there with good vs. evil. Ben was cleary the protagoist while Madec takes the gold in evil-villan antagonists. My only problem with the book was how parts of it would lag into long, drawn-out scientific definitions of the surroundings, lacking some creativity at points: Not too many metaphors, simalies, and hyperboles were seen hanging around.
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Summary: Deprived in the Desert
Review: Deathwatch is a book about a young man named Ben who leads a bighorn hunter by the name of Madec into the desert. During the trip Madec accidently shoots and kills an unknown prospector. Ben wants to take the prospector to town so that he can be identified. Madec becomes angry and fearful that he will go to jail so he turns on Ben, taking away his gun and all his clothes except his shorts. Madec watches and awaits for Ben to die of starvation or hydration. Except with Ben's clever desert skills, he is able to outsmart Madec and gain control of the jeep. He heads back to town with Madec to tell his story of how the prospector died. Little did he know, Madec would have his own story to contradict Ben.
Deathwatch is an intriguing book because of the suspence it gives to me as a reader. The good things about the book were that it kept me wondering how a man like Madec could be so cruel to Ben just to get his way. The flaws in the book were that even though Madec did terrible things to Ben, in the end Ben never testified against Madec. Robb White also made Ben seem to ideal. The descriptions of the scenery in the desert were to drawn out and hard to follow. Nevertheless, the book was still engaging to read and kept me wondering what would happen next.
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