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354 reviews for:
Натюрморт с гарвани
Douglas Preston, Douglas Preston, Douglas Preston, Lincoln Child
4.07 AVERAGE
354 reviews for:
Натюрморт с гарвани
Douglas Preston, Douglas Preston, Douglas Preston, Lincoln Child
4.07 AVERAGE
I think it is becoming clear that this Pendergast series is pretty amazing! With the exception of the second book of the series, the rest have been pretty riveting! As with the rest, this 4th book of the series, has been an excellent read. It's well written, but at the same time flows fast and keeps the interest going. The story is interesting, our FBI man Pendegast is as cool as ever, it includes a particularly nasty bad guy..you can't really go wrong!
I give this a solid 4.5/5 stars
I give this a solid 4.5/5 stars
Special agent Pendergast haast zich naar een geïsoleerde gemeenschap in Kansas, waar in een graancirkel een bizar tafereel is aangetroffen rond een ernstig verminkt lijk.
Het leidt tot vette krantenkoppen en angst in het dorp. De plaatselijke sheriff houdt vol dat het een incident was, aar Pendergast denkt aan een lokale seriemoordenaar en begint een eigen onderzoek.
De FBI-man krijgt gelijk: er vallen meer doden, schijnbaar zonder patroon. Pendergast doet alles om inzicht te krijgen in de onvoorspelbare schepper van de graancirkels. Maar de sheriff wil niet meer luisteren. Koppigheid en gekwetste trots leiden tot een tragedie.
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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. Ik hoop in de aankomende jaren tijd te vinden om de serie weer op te pakken om opnieuw te lezen, zodat ik ook dit boek een waardering kan geven.
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Overige boekinformatie:
Uitgverij: Luitingh~Sijthoff
ISBN: 90.245.4784.9
431 pagina's; paperback
Het leidt tot vette krantenkoppen en angst in het dorp. De plaatselijke sheriff houdt vol dat het een incident was, aar Pendergast denkt aan een lokale seriemoordenaar en begint een eigen onderzoek.
De FBI-man krijgt gelijk: er vallen meer doden, schijnbaar zonder patroon. Pendergast doet alles om inzicht te krijgen in de onvoorspelbare schepper van de graancirkels. Maar de sheriff wil niet meer luisteren. Koppigheid en gekwetste trots leiden tot een tragedie.
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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. Ik hoop in de aankomende jaren tijd te vinden om de serie weer op te pakken om opnieuw te lezen, zodat ik ook dit boek een waardering kan geven.
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Overige boekinformatie:
Uitgverij: Luitingh~Sijthoff
ISBN: 90.245.4784.9
431 pagina's; paperback
Noooo ... don't go into the cornfield! Nooooo!
What do you get when you combine the supercilious fastidiousness and overbearing punctiliousness of Hercule Poirot; the intensity, pure logic and deductive power of Sherlock Holmes; the austerity, speed, focus, lightning reflexes, innate strength and eastern mysticism of Kwai Chang Caine with the wealth and desire for secretive philanthropy of Michael Anthony, The Millionaire? Well, this IS a review of Still Life With Crows, so you don't get any extra points for guessing that the answer is FBI Special Agent Pendergast! But it will give you an overview of a character that I reckon to be one of the most interesting, eccentric and curious sleuths ever created in fiction!
The wheels are certainly still firmly attached to the truck with Still Life With Crows and they're in no danger of falling off yet! But the Lincoln/Child truck has certainly turned a corner, changed direction and moved out of a thriller genre more firmly based in reality into something that is perhaps better labeled as pure horror or even fantasy horror!
Pendergast makes an ex officio visit to Medicine Creek, Kansas, to investigate a bizarre series of ritual killings that seem somehow related to the town legend of the Curse of the Forty-Fives - the eerie story of the 1865 massacre of a group of cowboys by the Indians they were hunting who stole into camp out of nowhere and disappeared just as completely. The tension throughout the story is palpable as the killer strikes again and again. You'll read page after page with wide eyes, breath tightly held and a crawling set of goose bumps as even a corn field is turned into a very, very nasty place to be. But the fact is, after all is said and done, the frenzied page turning ends with the realization that the "creature" revealed to be the insane culprit is not resolved. Preternatural speed, strength and agility, for example, are simply evoked but never really explained.
With this, the fourth Pendergast outing, Preston and Child are proving themselves to be true masters of character development. Sheriff Dent Hazen evolves from a red neck "Boss Hawg" style comedic stereotype mid-west bully into a man of true courage, compassion and strength who is clearly devastated about his failures as a father. Corrie Swanson, a spiteful 18 year old rebel goth is taken under Pendergast's wing as his "assistant" and shown to be a bright, intelligent motivated young lady dealing with the demons of a miserable home life and her mother's alcoholism. This off-the-wall relationship is so engagingly painted with such loving detail that we can only cross our fingers and hope desperately that we're destined to see more of Corrie Swanson in future novels.
In passing, we're also treated to some very interesting discussion on the convoluted science, emotions and politics of the relationship between big business, farmers and genetically modified crops.
Not Lincoln and Child's best, but I reckon you'll still be flipping the pages wildly through to a magnificent surprise ending in the final paragraph!
Paul Weiss
What do you get when you combine the supercilious fastidiousness and overbearing punctiliousness of Hercule Poirot; the intensity, pure logic and deductive power of Sherlock Holmes; the austerity, speed, focus, lightning reflexes, innate strength and eastern mysticism of Kwai Chang Caine with the wealth and desire for secretive philanthropy of Michael Anthony, The Millionaire? Well, this IS a review of Still Life With Crows, so you don't get any extra points for guessing that the answer is FBI Special Agent Pendergast! But it will give you an overview of a character that I reckon to be one of the most interesting, eccentric and curious sleuths ever created in fiction!
The wheels are certainly still firmly attached to the truck with Still Life With Crows and they're in no danger of falling off yet! But the Lincoln/Child truck has certainly turned a corner, changed direction and moved out of a thriller genre more firmly based in reality into something that is perhaps better labeled as pure horror or even fantasy horror!
Pendergast makes an ex officio visit to Medicine Creek, Kansas, to investigate a bizarre series of ritual killings that seem somehow related to the town legend of the Curse of the Forty-Fives - the eerie story of the 1865 massacre of a group of cowboys by the Indians they were hunting who stole into camp out of nowhere and disappeared just as completely. The tension throughout the story is palpable as the killer strikes again and again. You'll read page after page with wide eyes, breath tightly held and a crawling set of goose bumps as even a corn field is turned into a very, very nasty place to be. But the fact is, after all is said and done, the frenzied page turning ends with the realization that the "creature" revealed to be the insane culprit is not resolved. Preternatural speed, strength and agility, for example, are simply evoked but never really explained.
With this, the fourth Pendergast outing, Preston and Child are proving themselves to be true masters of character development. Sheriff Dent Hazen evolves from a red neck "Boss Hawg" style comedic stereotype mid-west bully into a man of true courage, compassion and strength who is clearly devastated about his failures as a father. Corrie Swanson, a spiteful 18 year old rebel goth is taken under Pendergast's wing as his "assistant" and shown to be a bright, intelligent motivated young lady dealing with the demons of a miserable home life and her mother's alcoholism. This off-the-wall relationship is so engagingly painted with such loving detail that we can only cross our fingers and hope desperately that we're destined to see more of Corrie Swanson in future novels.
In passing, we're also treated to some very interesting discussion on the convoluted science, emotions and politics of the relationship between big business, farmers and genetically modified crops.
Not Lincoln and Child's best, but I reckon you'll still be flipping the pages wildly through to a magnificent surprise ending in the final paragraph!
Paul Weiss
adventurous
dark
mysterious
tense
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Plot
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
No
Wow wow wow this was incredible
Very strange book, but kept me entertained. Highly recommended.
dark
mysterious
reflective
tense
medium-paced
Not the authors making me cry at the end!
Any notion of a child getting left behind, never getting a life breaks my heart. I just can’t stand the injustice of it.
This story was frightening, and then filled me with deep sorrow at the end. I’m not sure how Preston and Child do it, but they are amazing writers.
This story was frightening, and then filled me with deep sorrow at the end.
adventurous
dark
mysterious
tense
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Plot
Strong character development:
Complicated
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
No
dark
mysterious
tense
fast-paced
mysterious
tense
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
No
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes