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Border Run: A Novel (2012)

by Simon Lewis(Favorite Author)

2.59 of 5 Votes: 1

ISBN

1416596054 (ISBN13: 9781416596059)

languge

English

genre

Fiction

publisher

Scribner

review 1: This book started out strong, but ended like a released balloon without being tied. Luckily, it's a very short book (probably less than 40,000 words), because if it was full-length novel, I'd have really been pissed.The concept was interesting, but the action and dialogue seemed to repeat itself every 30 or so pages. If you want to read a good novel about crazy things happening in the jungles of Southeast Asia, pick up Alex Garland's "The Beach." Garland can flat-out write, and "The Beach" is on my Top-20 all-time list of novels. Don't let the average movie version fool you -- the book is excellent.I really wanted to like this book, but by the half-way point I couldn't wait for it to end. I was holding out for an explosive ending, but all I got was, well, and en... moreding.
review 2: Book started off strong, and I had high hopes because I really loved Lewis' previous book, Bad Traffic. However, in the end this initially-promising story just went nowhere. Or to be more precise, went one place -- an exotic jungle waterfall. Then it left, then it came back, then left again, then back...The whole story takes place in the course of one long morning/afternoon, and while it does tell an interesting story of consistently bad decisions and tragic choices, I had just expected more.That said, this book is a very quick read -- more of a novella, which I finished in one day -- and so perhaps shouldn't be held to the same standard as a full-length novel. However, overall I'd rather Mr. Lewis took his time and wrote another adventure for Inspector Jian than to rush out more "extended short stories" like this. less

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