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Title: Open Season by C. J. Box ISBN: 0-425-18546-X Publisher: Prime Crime Pub. Date: 07 May, 2002 Format: Mass Market Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $6.50 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.33 (49 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: By far the best book I've ever read.
Comment: C.J. Box is one of the most talented authors I've come across. To create such a novel as Open Season on his first book ever is very impressive. I'm not the worlds quickest reader, but I couldn't put this book down. I read it in less than five hours. The vividness used by Box is amazing. I felt as though my whole world had disappeared around me, and I was out in the middle of Wyoming. After reading this book I can't help but feel as though Joe Pickett has been a little part of my life. Box really made me step back and ask myself if I'm more like Joe Pickett, standing up for my values, or am I like many others in his novel who'll do anything for a little bit of percived gain. Again, I'm really impressed by C.J. Box's talent, and I really look forward to his next book. If you're deciding on reading the book, I highly recommend it. Best book ever!
Rating: 3
Summary: Fallible hero
Comment: There are many things to like about C.J. Box's first novel.
For one thing, the protagonist, Joe Pickett, is a game warden in Twelve Sleep, Wyoming, a great setting. Box also does a good job with complications when a local hunting outfitter is found murdered in Joe's backyard. Joe had caught the outfitter poaching, but had been relieved of his gun when he'd begun to write the citation (Joe is much more fallible and believable than a lot of genre heroes). The game warden whom Joe had replaced is a local legend who'd quit his job to work for InterWest, a natural gas pipeline company with plans to build across the state(Unless those persnickety environmentalists find a reason to squelch matters). Joe is also having trouble making ends meet on his salary and his mother-in-law, who's always felt he wasn't good enough for her daughter, Marybeth, arrives to help with the children. The legendary game warden offers Joe a job with InterWest and he's tempted to take it. When two more dead outfitters are found and a possible suspect is also gunned down, most everybody is satisfied that the case has been solved. Except Joe. It's all much too cut and dried for him.
Probably the most engaging character in the book is Joe's seven-year-old daughter, Sheridan, who witnessed "the monster" stumble into Joe's backyard and pass out on the woodpile, leaving a little box full of animal feces from several Miller's weasels, an endangered species, whom Sheridan takes on as pets.
The plot of OPEN SEASON leaves a bit to be desired. There's an ambiguous chapter where a man, who's been watching her play with the weasels, threatens Sheridan. There are only two possible suspects, and when you eliminate the obvious one, there's only one. And he's too much of a maniac to be credible.
Rating: 5
Summary: Don't start reading this unless you have all night
Comment: I had a lot to do tonight around the house, but was having a hard time focusing. So I figure I'll read a chapter or two of this book "Open Season" that I'd picked up because it seemed kinda interesting... It's now a little past 2:00 AM. My eyes are blurred, I gotta take a leak, and my shoulders and back are stiff from laying on the couch reading all night. Just couldn't put it down once I opened it. Finished the book, read the teaser for the next Joe Pickett novel, read the short bio of CJ Box on the back page, and then even reread all the reviews in the front of the book. Just couldn't get enough. Of course, I also went on Amazon.com and bought the next novel. Joe Pickett and his family are some of the best characters I've encountered in a long time, and I know I'll be following them for years to come (I hope). Just a great book!
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Title: Savage Run by C. J. Box ISBN: 0425189244 Publisher: Prime Crime Pub. Date: 06 May, 2003 List Price(USD): $6.50 |
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Title: Winterkill: A Novel by C. J. Box ISBN: 0399150455 Publisher: Putnam Pub Group Pub. Date: 08 May, 2003 List Price(USD): $23.95 |
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Title: The Hunting Wind : An Alex McKnight Mystery by Steve Hamilton ISBN: 0312980264 Publisher: St. Martin's Press Pub. Date: 15 April, 2002 List Price(USD): $6.99 |
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Title: North of Nowhere : An Alex McKnight Novel by Steve Hamilton ISBN: 0312983816 Publisher: St. Martin's Press Pub. Date: 18 May, 2003 List Price(USD): $6.99 |
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Title: Winter of the Wolf Moon by Steve Hamilton ISBN: 0312974752 Publisher: St. Martin's Minotaur Pub. Date: 15 February, 2001 List Price(USD): $6.50 |
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