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![By Vince Flynn American Assassin: A Thriller [Paperback] by Vince Flynn](/assets/placeholder-cover-a3ae92250eb3301e32dc3eabf8d50576c2f047dda89f6ee7cfa9a859cb1fd746.jpg)
3.87 AVERAGE
3.87 AVERAGE
adventurous
dark
tense
medium-paced
I guess liked it enough that I'll check out the sequel, but compared to Ludlum, Clancy or Baldacci? The author isn't quite there yet. My reading experience was probably marred by the two dozen typos or so that were spread out throughout the book. What a terrible editing job!
adventurous
tense
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Plot
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
No
This book was made into a movie years ago and it is one of my favorites! I recently found out it was a book and really wanted to read it. The movie added so many things that I feel like they didn’t need to! The book was action packed and still has me loving the story just as much as the movie!
adventurous
dark
mysterious
sad
tense
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Plot
Strong character development:
Complicated
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
emotional
informative
tense
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Plot
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
N/A
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Complicated
Books to Movies - Sept 15, 2017
Longest spy book in history - or did it just read like it? I read this to prep to see the movie. I sure hope it's better than the book. Lots of spy cliches & drawn out sequences that you think might never end, plus an editing error every other page that had actually been marked by the previous library patron to read it - THAT was the most entertaining part.
Longest spy book in history - or did it just read like it? I read this to prep to see the movie. I sure hope it's better than the book. Lots of spy cliches & drawn out sequences that you think might never end, plus an editing error every other page that had actually been marked by the previous library patron to read it - THAT was the most entertaining part.
Mitch Rapp is a CIA assassin and has appeared in other Flynn novels, apparently. How did he become this gifted killer? That's the premise of this story. The difficulty is that Flynn takes the non-linear approach and we wander. We start off with a decision to be kidnapped in order to save fellow guys, and then back track to his recruitment and education and that go forward to various operations and do so from different points of view, all of which gets very confusing, to me. Flynn is a practiced writer and knows how to build tension and develop antagonists who provide lots of obstacles. But the core story, it seemed to me, got left behind. And in the end we come back to the being kidnapped and of course the ultimate triumph of good. I like thrillers but this one fell flat in my humble opinion.