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353 reviews for:
Натюрморт с гарвани
Douglas Preston, Douglas Preston, Douglas Preston, Lincoln Child
4.07 AVERAGE
353 reviews for:
Натюрморт с гарвани
Douglas Preston, Douglas Preston, Douglas Preston, Lincoln Child
4.07 AVERAGE
I loved the plot. It was interesting. However, the writers tended to drag on far longer than they should have about insignificant things. I don't need twenty lines on how a corn field looks to understand that they're in a corn field.
YES!! Another great addition in the Pendergast series!
I’m sure you can you tell I’m excited to do this review, right? You’ve got to understand that my enthusiasm for this book is also for the series. Almost all the books in this series are entertaining, fun and thrilling. The tension is just lights out.
The books are just so good! I mean, isn't that what we want when we read? To be entertained?
Thanks Terry for another great buddy read while we travel down Pendergast lane!
So, how does this book start? It starts in a small town in Kansas with rows of corn ready for harvest and a killer on the loose. I really thought the setting of Kansas would not work for me in this book and oh boy, I was wrong.
Let me paint a scene for you so you’ll get the idea.
You’re running and gasping through 12’ rows of corn in the darkest of night. Trying not to trip, you’re completely isolated and lost. There’s a killer racing behind you. You can hear their heavy footsteps as they pace you in the darkness while they scream "MuuuuuuUUUUUUHHHHHHHH!!"
Yeah, corn can be frightening folks. Next time you eat some corn on the cob, make sure no one’s breathing loud next to you. o.O
Preston and Child are masters at scaring the shit out of you. Seriously, I hope this is on their tombstones when they die because it will be fitting.
I read horror books a lot and there were moments in this book that scared the living bejesus outta me.
In regards to my ridiculous and sporadic review, this book was great. And awesome. And I loved every damn, corn eatin' minute of it!
I’m sure you can you tell I’m excited to do this review, right? You’ve got to understand that my enthusiasm for this book is also for the series. Almost all the books in this series are entertaining, fun and thrilling. The tension is just lights out.
The books are just so good! I mean, isn't that what we want when we read? To be entertained?
Thanks Terry for another great buddy read while we travel down Pendergast lane!
So, how does this book start? It starts in a small town in Kansas with rows of corn ready for harvest and a killer on the loose. I really thought the setting of Kansas would not work for me in this book and oh boy, I was wrong.
Let me paint a scene for you so you’ll get the idea.
You’re running and gasping through 12’ rows of corn in the darkest of night. Trying not to trip, you’re completely isolated and lost. There’s a killer racing behind you. You can hear their heavy footsteps as they pace you in the darkness while they scream "MuuuuuuUUUUUUHHHHHHHH!!"
Yeah, corn can be frightening folks. Next time you eat some corn on the cob, make sure no one’s breathing loud next to you. o.O
Preston and Child are masters at scaring the shit out of you. Seriously, I hope this is on their tombstones when they die because it will be fitting.
I read horror books a lot and there were moments in this book that scared the living bejesus outta me.
In regards to my ridiculous and sporadic review, this book was great. And awesome. And I loved every damn, corn eatin' minute of it!
This series just keeps on giving. Perfect slow-burning thought-provoking horror. I love we get to hang out with Pendergast so much more and meet him on another level.
content warnings: profanity, gore, murder, disturbing murder scenes, demented individuals
"Snakes and snails and puppy dog tails. That's what little boys are made of." Surprising twists and turns, gruesome but gripping.
This one has got to be the creepiest of the Pendergast novels. Read it at Thanksgiving, it goes along with the holiday.
There are a few things that I had issue with, being from Kansas. I have never seen "crick" spelled like "crik" before. "Warsh is more of a regional/generational thing, rather than a "white trash" pronunciation. And also, we call it K State. Sometimes KSU, but that's usually from sportscasters. I don't know anyone who says Kansas State University who actually lives in the state.
Anyway, the story was fascinating. Kept me guessing until I had enough info to make an informed guess. Once again, I guessed part of the story, but I have yet to figure all of it out.
Anyway, the story was fascinating. Kept me guessing until I had enough info to make an informed guess. Once again, I guessed part of the story, but I have yet to figure all of it out.
So, so, so good. Awesome murder-mystery/action novel.
STILL LIFE WITH CROWS transports readers to the cornfields of Medicine Creek, Kansas as it bakes in the fiery heat of the dusty month of August. In a mysteriously cleared section of a field "…the broken stalks carefully stacked to one side, leave an area of dirt clods and stubble perhaps forty feet in diameter the sheriff finds himself marveling at the geometric precision" of the murder site. Surrounded by what looks like a ritualistic array of bizarre artifacts lies a mutilated body that the sheriff can merely guess is the corpse of a woman.
This savage act is the first homicide in this backwater, dying little town since 1931. Not only is it a horrendous killing, it is stylized to resemble rituals ascribed to local myths and old legends attributed to the Native Americans who inhabited that land long ago. And the self-important, bombastic, thoroughly narrow-minded sheriff is too ornery to admit he is in over his head. In wanders a special agent in his trademark black worsted suit. He is a stranger, and from the South, and immediately falls under suspicion.
An opening like this is a real hook. How can a reader resist? Shades of the gothic novel, shadows of horror fiction, and double doses of suspense are the elements that hold this story together. The crimes committed in this book are far from ordinary. The town and its people are depicted in raw detail with all of their flaws and endearing qualities, if they have any.
Kansas, like many states, has its share of Native American legends, stories of bootleg whiskey and battles lost or won, but how could any of these have a link to "the inexplicable movements of a serial killer" in the twenty-first century? Of course, many books that take place in small rural towns take on a seedy quality, but STILL LIFE WITH CROWS escapes this flaw because it rises above the ordinary even, as it closes in on the killer.
As it happens, the man in the black worsted suit is an FBI agent named Pendergast, who has appeared in other Preston-Child collaborations. He is a modern day Holmesian-like sleuth with an astounding memory and the amazing ability to rattle off arcane facts just as easily as he takes care of ordinary common sense business.
Authors Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child let readers wander the landscape of the plot and examine a clue here or a bit of "inside" information there … and this makes reading their books fun. STILL LIFE WITH CROWS is a terrific whodunit and a page-turner that takes readers on a strange trip through a part of America that is slowly dying out. Fans of the suspense/horror/thriller genre(s) will find themselves thoroughly captivated. One thing is certain: this isn't Dorothy's Kansas anymore.
This savage act is the first homicide in this backwater, dying little town since 1931. Not only is it a horrendous killing, it is stylized to resemble rituals ascribed to local myths and old legends attributed to the Native Americans who inhabited that land long ago. And the self-important, bombastic, thoroughly narrow-minded sheriff is too ornery to admit he is in over his head. In wanders a special agent in his trademark black worsted suit. He is a stranger, and from the South, and immediately falls under suspicion.
An opening like this is a real hook. How can a reader resist? Shades of the gothic novel, shadows of horror fiction, and double doses of suspense are the elements that hold this story together. The crimes committed in this book are far from ordinary. The town and its people are depicted in raw detail with all of their flaws and endearing qualities, if they have any.
Kansas, like many states, has its share of Native American legends, stories of bootleg whiskey and battles lost or won, but how could any of these have a link to "the inexplicable movements of a serial killer" in the twenty-first century? Of course, many books that take place in small rural towns take on a seedy quality, but STILL LIFE WITH CROWS escapes this flaw because it rises above the ordinary even, as it closes in on the killer.
As it happens, the man in the black worsted suit is an FBI agent named Pendergast, who has appeared in other Preston-Child collaborations. He is a modern day Holmesian-like sleuth with an astounding memory and the amazing ability to rattle off arcane facts just as easily as he takes care of ordinary common sense business.
Authors Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child let readers wander the landscape of the plot and examine a clue here or a bit of "inside" information there … and this makes reading their books fun. STILL LIFE WITH CROWS is a terrific whodunit and a page-turner that takes readers on a strange trip through a part of America that is slowly dying out. Fans of the suspense/horror/thriller genre(s) will find themselves thoroughly captivated. One thing is certain: this isn't Dorothy's Kansas anymore.
This series just get better and better, it’s like the first 3 books, brilliant as they are, only exist to establish the character Pendergast.
This is the first story that really stands alone outside the New York museum where it all started without any of the old sidekicks.
Set in a small,far from everywhere, town in Kansas, we find Pendergast on vacation when a serial killer strikes.
And from there on the narrative takes off with a speed that leaves you breathless and sitting on the edge of the chair biting your nails in suspense.
The best part is that there’s plenty more books in the series.
This is the first story that really stands alone outside the New York museum where it all started without any of the old sidekicks.
Set in a small,far from everywhere, town in Kansas, we find Pendergast on vacation when a serial killer strikes.
And from there on the narrative takes off with a speed that leaves you breathless and sitting on the edge of the chair biting your nails in suspense.
The best part is that there’s plenty more books in the series.