Reviews

Black Sunday by Thomas Harris

knittingchaos's review against another edition

4.0

A good thriller

crazysecondname's review against another edition

tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? No

3.5

also die letzten 10 seiten waren dann doch spannend aber davor wars so hm

leni314's review against another edition

adventurous dark tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
• Flaws of characters a main focus? No

3.0

dee9401's review against another edition

1.0

Just didn’t like this. 2-d characters, ridiculously quick ending, nasty stereotypes.

sandin954's review against another edition

3.0

Lots of tension and suspense in this debut by the author which was published back in 1975. The terrorism plot was realistic, though sometimes it did becomes mired down in the technical details of the plan, and the characters and their motivations were well drawn. A good first effort though his later works were much more polished.

dcboycm's review against another edition

adventurous emotional mysterious tense slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? No

3.75

trisha76's review against another edition

Inhoud:
Als in New Orleans op Super Bowl Sunday de wedstrijd begint zullen 80.000 mensen sterven. Het stadion van de Super Bowl - in de VS hét sportevenement van het jaar - is opeens de gevaarlijkste plek ter wereld.

Michael Lander is de gevaarlijkste man van Amerika. Hij bestuurt elk weekend een tv-zeppelin die boven volgepakte stadions hangt. En hij is gestoord. Daarom is hij verleid door een mooie Palestijnse. Daar zal - op Super Bowl Sunday - de wereld getuige zijn van de moord op de Amerikaanse president en van het grootste bloedbad ooit vertoond. Tenzij iemand ontdekt wat Lander van plan is... en hem als eerste doodt.

Waardering:
Omdat ik, toen ik het boek las, nog geen beoordelingen en mening gaf over boeken is het voor mij niet mogelijk om nu een juiste waardering aan het boek te geven.

Boekinformatie:
Uitgeverij: Luitingh Sijthoff
ISBN: 90.245.3793.2
287 pagina's; Paperback

astroneatly's review against another edition

dark mysterious relaxing sad tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? No

3.5

vance_31's review against another edition

3.0

I loved Red Dragon by Thomas Harris, so I thought I'd give his first book a try.

Characters ☆☆☆
Only one character was remarkable. The rest were so generic.

Writing ☆☆☆
Boring. It didn't have the charm of Red Dragon's writing.

Flow ☆☆
Zzzzzzzz.

Ending ☆☆☆☆
The ending's pretty good. Action-packed.

Overall ☆☆☆
'Sall right. I'm not really a fan of the genre, and the execution did not compensate. This book reminded me of books by Robert Ludlum and Tom Clancy, the type of books I'll never touch again.

shahrun's review against another edition

3.0

This is a surprisingly modern and very relevant story of terrorism. Very surpring to me it was written and first published in the 1970s. I found it slow and a bit hard to get into. For me the story only picked up a bit when we found out Michaels back story. I felt it a shame that we didn't really find out much about Dahlia, what exactly led her to being involved in terrorism. I found the built up the end quite exciting. I worried that maybe for once the author was going to let the terrorists get away with it! It went right down to the wire.