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3.85 AVERAGE
3.85 AVERAGE
adventurous
funny
mysterious
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Plot
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
adventurous
dark
funny
mysterious
tense
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
adventurous
dark
funny
mysterious
tense
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Plot
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
If you’re reading this book because of the Bullet Train movie, a fair warning: they are very different. The movie is faster paced and has quite a different ending, as well as a different approach to portraying the characters, especially Ladybug and Kimura Senior. The book is a little slow in the middle compared to the rest of it, but the last 100 pages or so are explosive, non stop action. All in all, a great read!
there’s not much wrong with this, just a couple of things i didn’t really like. I’ve seen the movie too, but honestly preferred the book, to the over dramatized american movie. the book was honestly good, but there were a couple of things i really didn’t enjoy, but that’s all spoilers, so i won’t go in to details.
so yeah it’s good, but i don’t think i’ll think much about this book at all.
so yeah it’s good, but i don’t think i’ll think much about this book at all.
mysterious
slow-paced
adventurous
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
This book, like the movie that came out of it, is a joyous, complicated tale of bad guys being bad. It is not a beat-for-beat match for the movie, but they are surprisingly similar! I enjoyed the setting, the characters, and the story.
adventurous
challenging
mysterious
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Plot
This took me a while to read bc one of the characters is sooooo evil and casual written death is kind of disturbing to me lol but I really liked it and it got tied up very satisfyingly
I loved the movie and thought the book might be even better. Unfortunately, that’s not really the case. All the interiority is on the wrong character for much of it. Either with a precocious but sociopathic kid, or the father of a kid in the same school. The movie recenters and films the more bombastic and hilarious scenes, while the book, because it attempts to ground so much of it in this meandering and circuitous trifecta, fails to jibe with the action sequences.
Everything great about it is cinematic, and the movie surprisingly added quite a bit of material that is, again, more in-line with what the story does well. This is still somewhat subversive of genre, and I probably would have liked it more if I hadn’t seen the movie. There’s really nothing superior about the story in this format, which is kind of wild. It’s why I fear picking up Fight Club, too. Everyone says the movie is miles better. It’s rare, but it happens.
Everything great about it is cinematic, and the movie surprisingly added quite a bit of material that is, again, more in-line with what the story does well. This is still somewhat subversive of genre, and I probably would have liked it more if I hadn’t seen the movie. There’s really nothing superior about the story in this format, which is kind of wild. It’s why I fear picking up Fight Club, too. Everyone says the movie is miles better. It’s rare, but it happens.
adventurous
tense
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Plot
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
N/A
Diverse cast of characters:
Complicated
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Complicated
similar to the movie, admirable in the book's ability to move characters around in ways that add up over time and interconnect, weaving together with each other. Not a lot of character depth or attachment to any of the characters, didn't seem like the characters were necessarily the point of the book.