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Summary: An Awesome On-the-edge-of-your-seat thriller! I loved It!
Review: Lamar and Odell Pye, two cousins break out of a jail in Oklahoma and leave a trail of destrtuction across the states of Oklahoma and Texas, looting and shooting up virtually every town they encounter. Stephen Hunter is a genius when it comes to keeping a reader hungry for more action in his numerous books. I have read six of his books and consider this the most exciting of them all. I cannot wait for his next book to come out.
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Summary: Good ol' american cops and robber yarn
Review: What fun!! A book you either love or hate and I loved it. Borrowed it off a mate and didn't give it back (must be the Lamar in me). The characters are two dimensional but not dull, the bad guys care for no one and are burning a one way track straight to hell. The cop is a gun totin, hat wearin, tobacco chewin, good ol' American boy from the deep south. They're on a collision course and heaven help anyone who gets in the way. Read it but remove your brain and put it on the coffee table before you do.
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Summary: Godawful
Review: I stopped at page 50. Poorly drawn characters-him bad, him good- and I didn't care about a single one of them. Read real crime writers like Elmore Leonard or Ross Thomas instead.
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Summary: Nail-biting, page-turning, can't put down suspense
Review: Stephen Hunter is an action/adventure storyteller master. Dirty White Boys is the first such novel I've read and actually felt like I understood the weapons terminology. He goes into great detail without actually boring me to tears. While I've never been a great reader of action thrillers, Stephen Hunter has definitely turned me around. I'm hungry to read everything he's ever written, and I have almost done that. Stephen King was my favorite author... UNTIL I READ THIS BOOK!!! Stephen Hunter is the best!
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Summary: Hunter has done it again!
Review: Dirty White Boys is a thrilling non-stop roller coaster ride by a master of suspense novels. Complain all you want about the graphic first chapter, but let's face it, prison aint pretty. Hunter creates a wide spectrum of characters in Dirty White Boys, from the troubled Bud Pewtie to the evil incarnate Lamar. If you are looking for a suspenseful page-turner this is your book.
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Summary: Intense and real!
Review: This book is my favorite to date. I will always have Lamar in my mind, like Kiaser Sosay. What a powerful way to tell a story. A must read for readers and nonreaders. True greatness.
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Summary: the best of the bob lee swagger trilogy
Review: Steven Hunter at his best and most disturbing. not as intricate as most of his other novels, yet unmistakeably more memorable.
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Summary: Page turner. Graphic, violent, suspenseful.
Review: This is my first book by Stephen Hunter, it won't be my last. From the very first page, I was mezmerized by main characters in this book. You have a violent career killer who has absolutely no value for human life, but he sometimes shows feelings toward the strangest things-- all the time these contradictions are believable. You have a sensitive, almost disfunctional artist, who surprises you with his violent tendencies. You have a hero State Trooper who is strugling with his feeling toward a friend's wife. Countless times you think he'll have to do the right thing, but he doesn't. There are many other interesting characters. I think the most interesting aspect of the book is that some of the violent scenes are gripping. The twists and turns are numerous, vivid, and unforgettable.
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Summary: Hey Steve _ Hynudai is made in Korea, not Japan
Review: Judging from other comments, like the one from a real Oklahoma state trooper, Hunter needs a fact checker. Yes, Nissans and Toyotas are Japanese, but Hyundais aren't and Hunter annoyed me each time the mistake was repeated. Maybe even his gun stuff is off, although I wouldn't know _ I'm not an NRA member.Nonetheless, Hunter has one talent that most thriller writers don't _ he can write. This is the second I've read (I'm reading his trilogy backwards). I'm not generally a reader of macho adventure stuff, but this is above the genre. Hunter beautifully develops character, like Pewtie's ambivalence about his marriage and his family, and he even develops a bit of sympathy for the sociopathological bad guys _ at least two of them (Lamar is a bit too much). But please, just a little better on facts. Like Hunter, I'm a journalist, and the first rule that's drilled into us is getting them right.
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Summary: Fast-paced and action packed.
Review: This book was really cool. You can complain all you want about the first paragraph being disgusting, but you have to admit it hooks you right away. I loved the insights into the criminal mind: especially in how Lamar set up the Denny's robbery. The only thing about this book that disappointed me was that Bud Pewtie's run in's with Lamar were a bit too coincidental.
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