1.58k reviews for:

I sette killer dello Shinkansen

Kōtarō Isaka

3.85 AVERAGE

brunoespadana's review against another edition

3.0

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Good fun summer read. I suspect the movie adaptation won’t be quite like it, though.

writeguy's review against another edition

3.0

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This train doesn’t quite pull into the station. For what is billed as a high-octane thriller/funny/ satire with multiple assassins battling it out on a train it sure is a slow moving, dense, heavily introspective book. I’m still not sure what it was satirizing. There is lots of character back story, inner monologue sections and very few actual action bits. It’s going to take an amazing screenwriter to turn this into any sort of interesting film, I wish Brad Pitt luck. I did like the intricacies of the plotting. There are a lot of characters connected to each other by a lot of threads, and the way the author draws them all together throughout is pretty great.

luke1972's review against another edition

5.0

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Took a while to get going but by the time I had got to the final quarter I was gripped.

voodoodoc's review against another edition

4.0

dark tense medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: Complicated

Flaws of characters a main focus: No

jvord777's review against another edition

3.0

adventurous dark funny medium-paced

locusts_2000's review against another edition

4.0

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I saw the movie first, so it was nice to listen to the book. The book makes me want to watch the movie again. 

ikaros's review against another edition

4.0

adventurous funny tense medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: No

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

ste_reads's review against another edition

4.0

dark funny mysterious tense medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: No

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: Complicated

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

izzybookswithluv's review against another edition

5.0

adventurous funny mysterious tense medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Complicated

mandibibbs37's review against another edition

4.0

adventurous funny mysterious slow-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Plot

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes