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mcbibliotecaria's review against another edition
3.0
Fun quick read. Made me think about the people involved in the drug trade. It is about two spoiled California boys sharing one girl getting caught in a cartel dispute. The writing is frantic, pieces, and sometimes poetry from the characters head. Also every single character gets a voice, even if its for one paragraph. Makes it really engaging. Thank goodness I finally read a book that I can get into, not that its high brow literature by any means, but quick and easily digestable.
acsaper's review against another edition
3.0
Reading Don Winslow is like watching a fast paced action movie. Which, I guess, is why they tried to make a movie out of this book. Mystery, thrills, actions, and all other sorts of words. Fun to read.
ellmccann's review against another edition
3.0
This book gave me literal nightmares so I think it was really well done and thrilling but I'd like to never read anything like this again.
jessplayin's review against another edition
3.0
This is more of a 2.5. Loved some of the writing but the plot is all over the place and it feels like it could've been tighter as a whole.
lisabeejenkins's review against another edition
5.0
Chon and Ben are strange bedfellows. Chon is a former special forces killing machine who hates everything and everyone (except Ben and O). Ben is a do-gooding Buddhist...and a brilliant botanist who has developed The Best Weed Ever. The two run their SoCal pot empire with much love from their best friend/girlfriend, O.
Things go to shit when the Baja Cartel moves in on them.
Fast, flip, violent, nihilistic (the only "ism" Chon approves of), a barbed love letter to Orange County, mind-bending/-blowing: not everyone's cup of tea. Normally the stream-of-consciousness shit would turn me off, but this was so real it worked.
Things go to shit when the Baja Cartel moves in on them.
Fast, flip, violent, nihilistic (the only "ism" Chon approves of), a barbed love letter to Orange County, mind-bending/-blowing: not everyone's cup of tea. Normally the stream-of-consciousness shit would turn me off, but this was so real it worked.
agob187's review
4.0
I actually never even heard of this book until I saw a trailer for the movie. When I actually want t =os ee a movie that is based on the book, I totally want to read the book first, and i've very glad I did!
I really enjoyed the choppy sentences and hipster dialogue of the characters. It left a lot up to your own imagination/interpretation. I'd definitely check out more of Winslow's work as I felt Savages was an exciting read. 4 stars!
I really enjoyed the choppy sentences and hipster dialogue of the characters. It left a lot up to your own imagination/interpretation. I'd definitely check out more of Winslow's work as I felt Savages was an exciting read. 4 stars!
lyricsninja's review against another edition
4.0
The writing was both fun and technically sound. Things flowed well through the dialogue and story, with everything in a fast paced and somewhat staccato manner. The story itself was both interesting and in depth and kept me interested from start to finish (take one part druglord, one part kidnapping, and a few parts of each side thinking the other are savages... and you have your story).
The one and only thing that kept this from hitting 5 stars? Some of the ridiculous need for the author to use silly "OC" terminology ad nauseam. This caused the the characters, at times, to come off a little too much like the movie "Cruel Intentions". It made them... obnoxious.
Still, its a really solid story.
The one and only thing that kept this from hitting 5 stars? Some of the ridiculous need for the author to use silly "OC" terminology ad nauseam. This caused the the characters, at times, to come off a little too much like the movie "Cruel Intentions". It made them... obnoxious.
Still, its a really solid story.
iancarpenter's review against another edition
3.0
Great fun. Super fast, kinetic read. The women for me are soaked in a sexual value system that yes, feels very much a part of the pulp tradition but leans to a wish-fulfillment that started to drive me nuts. Despite the large presence of many women in the narrative. Despite the one very powerful, brilliant woman crucial to the narrative. But, I definitely want to read the Cartel. Winslow's a great, hip, playful writer and I won't be surprised if this is a bit of a standout in what wore me down here.