Savages

Gave it a shot, but it's just not my thing.

At this point, I just need to be honest with myself and just buy everything this guy has written/will write. I was nervous about starting this, as it wasn't in [b:The Dawn Patrol 2868920 The Dawn Patrol (Boone Daniels #1) Don Winslow http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1320497356s/2868920.jpg 2895075]-verse. Would it be as good? Would it be better, making me like Boone, et al. less? Stupid, yeah.Winslow's books are the kind of cool I thought Tarantino was after Pulp Fiction (not saying QT isn't great, I just don't think he's the kind of great I did then)–an insane mix of hip, crime, violence, honor, love and fun.

This one had popped up on my radar back when I started seeing trailers for the movie version. I never did see the movie but I've read two other books by this author (The Death and Life of Bobby Z, California Fire & Life) and really liked them. So I snagged this one out of the local library and ended up polishing it off in just three days. It's written in a very cool, slangy, breezy style... it's an effortless, summer read. I thought the characters were really cool and just thought the story and writing were a lot of fun. I gotta read more by this author.