Savages: A Novel
Don Winslow
Nothing makes a long flight more tolerable than a good read. So long along those lines, I found myself in the Phoenix airport looking for a novel to entertain me on my trip back to New Jersey. I settled on Savages because it looked like an engaging quick read.
Anyway, the book is certainly a quick read. Honestly, though, this is probably the dumbest story that I've read since, well, maybe since ever. The characters are all stereotypes. The plot is cliche'. The prose is minimalist. It felt like Winslow tried to channel Cormac McCarthy, but the writing doesn't engage in the same way. I felt I was reading a story written by a sixth grader. Speaking of which, Winslow's poetic license of English grammar is worse than a sixth grader; the writing really has no form.
After reading an action passage, my son summed it up nicely, "wow, he made that explosion sound boring." Oops.
Don Winslow
Nothing makes a long flight more tolerable than a good read. So long along those lines, I found myself in the Phoenix airport looking for a novel to entertain me on my trip back to New Jersey. I settled on Savages because it looked like an engaging quick read.
Anyway, the book is certainly a quick read. Honestly, though, this is probably the dumbest story that I've read since, well, maybe since ever. The characters are all stereotypes. The plot is cliche'. The prose is minimalist. It felt like Winslow tried to channel Cormac McCarthy, but the writing doesn't engage in the same way. I felt I was reading a story written by a sixth grader. Speaking of which, Winslow's poetic license of English grammar is worse than a sixth grader; the writing really has no form.
After reading an action passage, my son summed it up nicely, "wow, he made that explosion sound boring." Oops.
