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Disciple Of The Dog (2000)

by R. Scott Bakker(Favorite Author)

3.42 of 5 Votes: 5

ISBN

0752898310 (ISBN13: 9780752898315)

languge

English

genre

Mystery & Thriller

publisher

Orion

review 1: I couldn't finish this. Life's too short to waste on books that suck.1) The repetition of "Fawk" for the F-word got real old, real quick.B) A newspaper in Southwestern PA is NOT going to send a reporter to cover a missing person in Southeastern PA. At least the author could have picked a newspaper on that end of the state.3) The repetition of the dialogue was irritating as hell. I get that the protagonist had a photographic type memory, meaning he never forgot anything he heard, but having the dialogue, then repeating it word for word a few pages later just to put his little "this is what I got from that" details was just ridiculous.D) The protagonist was a real jag-off and not sympathetic at all. Gotta have some redeeming qualities, people.Couldn't recommend this ... morebook at all. Period. End of review.
review 2: Overall, this was a very nice book, it was a first time read of Scott Bakker for me, and i can say that I will definitely be picking up his other novel from reading this. The only criticism I would have for it would be that there wasn't enough back story into the main protagonist (it hints on things such as attempted suicide, being in jail etc) but never really adds anything to it, so for me, I was left wondering why? Also the whole 'crime aspect' was quite weak based on other crime novels that I have read, there was no great depth, but that maybe due to the book only being 248 pages (or somewhere around that mark) so I felt like I didn't get THAT much of a mystery. But the characters were believable and the main protagonist certainly had a cynic view on life and had me smiling with some of his humor, and overall the book was excellently written and did have a couple of twist and turns along the way, so overall a very enjoyable read, but not exactly a page turner for me, not exactly high in the 'blood, gore and action' which I tend to enjoy. less

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