Comments on: Bust http://www.bookgasm.com/reviews/thrillers/bust/ reading material to get excited about Fri, 10 Feb 2012 20:08:36 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Tower | Bookgasm http://www.bookgasm.com/reviews/thrillers/bust/comment-page-1/#comment-62378 Tower | Bookgasm Thu, 10 Sep 2009 11:29:46 +0000 http://www.bookgasm.com/?p=551#comment-62378 [...] BOOKGASM REVIEWS OF KEN BRUEN: • BUST by Ken Bruen and Jason Starr • THE MAX by Ken Bruen and Jason Starr • ONCE WERE COPS by Ken [...] [...] BOOKGASM REVIEWS OF KEN BRUEN: • BUST by Ken Bruen and Jason Starr • THE MAX by Ken Bruen and Jason Starr • ONCE WERE COPS by Ken [...]

]]> By: Sanctuary | Bookgasm http://www.bookgasm.com/reviews/thrillers/bust/comment-page-1/#comment-62179 Sanctuary | Bookgasm Thu, 10 Sep 2009 00:41:52 +0000 http://www.bookgasm.com/?p=551#comment-62179 [...] BOOKGASM REVIEWS OF THIS AUTHOR: • BUST by Ken Bruen and Jason Starr • THE MAX by Ken Bruen and Jason Starr • ONCE WERE COPS by Ken [...] [...] BOOKGASM REVIEWS OF THIS AUTHOR: • BUST by Ken Bruen and Jason Starr • THE MAX by Ken Bruen and Jason Starr • ONCE WERE COPS by Ken [...]

]]> By: Bookgasm: Reading Material to Get Excited About » Blog Archive » The Max http://www.bookgasm.com/reviews/thrillers/bust/comment-page-1/#comment-60313 Bookgasm: Reading Material to Get Excited About » Blog Archive » The Max Sat, 05 Sep 2009 17:32:40 +0000 http://www.bookgasm.com/?p=551#comment-60313 [...] by the transatlantic tag team of Ken Bruen and Jason Starr. Like its predecessors — 2006’s BUST and 2007’s SLIDE — it’s fast, violent, sexy, outrageous fun. In other words, just the [...] [...] by the transatlantic tag team of Ken Bruen and Jason Starr. Like its predecessors — 2006’s BUST and 2007’s SLIDE — it’s fast, violent, sexy, outrageous fun. In other words, just the [...]

]]> By: Bookgasm: Reading Material to Get Excited About » Blog Archive » Q&A with THE MAX’s Jason Starr http://www.bookgasm.com/reviews/thrillers/bust/comment-page-1/#comment-53537 Bookgasm: Reading Material to Get Excited About » Blog Archive » Q&A with THE MAX’s Jason Starr Thu, 07 Aug 2008 11:01:54 +0000 http://www.bookgasm.com/?p=551#comment-53537 [...] of HARD FEELINGS, TOUGH LUCK and a Hard Case Crime trilogy co-written with Ken Bruen that includes BUST, SLIDE and the upcoming THE MAX. In the meantime, BOOKGASM talked to Starr about what’s [...] [...] of HARD FEELINGS, TOUGH LUCK and a Hard Case Crime trilogy co-written with Ken Bruen that includes BUST, SLIDE and the upcoming THE MAX. In the meantime, BOOKGASM talked to Starr about what’s [...]

]]> By: montyburnz http://www.bookgasm.com/reviews/thrillers/bust/comment-page-1/#comment-29710 montyburnz Sun, 03 Feb 2008 08:50:27 +0000 http://www.bookgasm.com/?p=551#comment-29710 The first page of BUST sizzles and heightened my expectations for a great f'ing read. Nope, that was not to be. It turned into clumsy Elmore Leonard impression. The first page of BUST sizzles and heightened my expectations for a great f’ing read. Nope, that was not to be. It turned into clumsy Elmore Leonard impression.

]]> By: Bookgasm: Reading Material to Get Excited About » Blog Archive » Slide http://www.bookgasm.com/reviews/thrillers/bust/comment-page-1/#comment-15508 Bookgasm: Reading Material to Get Excited About » Blog Archive » Slide Tue, 25 Sep 2007 12:04:26 +0000 http://www.bookgasm.com/?p=551#comment-15508 [...] sequel to last year’s BUST, this rollicking tale of sex, drugs and serial killers begins when disgraced New York computer exec [...] [...] sequel to last year’s BUST, this rollicking tale of sex, drugs and serial killers begins when disgraced New York computer exec [...]

]]> By: platyjoe http://www.bookgasm.com/reviews/thrillers/bust/comment-page-1/#comment-4416 platyjoe Tue, 25 Jul 2006 23:45:15 +0000 http://www.bookgasm.com/?p=551#comment-4416 I dunno, I thought the pace was really uneven, rarely suspenseful, and the plot twists too easily decoded well in advance. I did like the prose itself, and the general idea was interesting, though we've read it all before. Unfortunately, I read the McBain HCC just prior to Bust, and it's about impossible to follow up on such a legend... pj I dunno, I thought the pace was really uneven, rarely suspenseful, and the plot twists too easily decoded well in advance.

I did like the prose itself, and the general idea was interesting, though we’ve read it all before.

Unfortunately, I read the McBain HCC just prior to Bust, and it’s about impossible to follow up on such a legend…

pj

]]> By: NEWSGASM >> 7.24.06 » Bookgasm http://www.bookgasm.com/reviews/thrillers/bust/comment-page-1/#comment-4375 NEWSGASM >> 7.24.06 » Bookgasm Mon, 24 Jul 2006 13:11:47 +0000 http://www.bookgasm.com/?p=551#comment-4375 [...] WOOLRICH GETS ‘HARD’ Though the publisher has yet to reveal its title, Hard Case Crime will be issuing a novel by “Rear Window” short story writer Cornell Woolrich, one which has not seen print in more than 50 years and has never been published under its own name. Also in 2007, Hard Case will publish a New York-based murder novel from THE MANCHURIAN CANDIDATE screenwriter George Axelrod, as well as sequels to Richard Aleas’ LITTLE GIRL LOST (tenatively titled SONG OF INNOCENCE, according to our interview with Hard Case head honcho Charles Ardai) and Ken Bruen and Jason Starr’s BUST, which we reviewed here. [...] [...] WOOLRICH GETS ‘HARD’ Though the publisher has yet to reveal its title, Hard Case Crime will be issuing a novel by “Rear Window” short story writer Cornell Woolrich, one which has not seen print in more than 50 years and has never been published under its own name. Also in 2007, Hard Case will publish a New York-based murder novel from THE MANCHURIAN CANDIDATE screenwriter George Axelrod, as well as sequels to Richard Aleas’ LITTLE GIRL LOST (tenatively titled SONG OF INNOCENCE, according to our interview with Hard Case head honcho Charles Ardai) and Ken Bruen and Jason Starr’s BUST, which we reviewed here. [...]

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