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Panic Attack
by
Jason Starr
An intruder, a desperate struggle, a family under siege: This is Jason Starr’s most provocative and suspenseful novel to date.
Dr. Adam Bloom has the perfect life. He’s financially secure and lives in a luxurious house with his wife, Dana, and their twenty-two-year-old daughter, Marissa, a recent college graduate. Late one night, his daughter wakes him up and says, “So
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Published
August 4th 2009
by Minotaur Books
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Yeah, Jason Starr is now officially one of my favorite authors.
I already thought he was pretty cool after I read The Chill, a graphic novel he wrote for Vertigo, but I was slightly biased because I pretty much love everything Vertigo gets on ink. While I liked the story, The Chill wasn't horribly memorable to me...but it did have boobies. Lots and lots of boobies.
This book reads extremely fast! I kept telling myself "only one more paragraph" up until the poin...more
I already thought he was pretty cool after I read The Chill, a graphic novel he wrote for Vertigo, but I was slightly biased because I pretty much love everything Vertigo gets on ink. While I liked the story, The Chill wasn't horribly memorable to me...but it did have boobies. Lots and lots of boobies.
This book reads extremely fast! I kept telling myself "only one more paragraph" up until the poin...more
I'm usually a huge fan of Mr. Starr. I consider him to be the Jim Thompson of Generation X. His plots are always noir-ishly dark and you often can't tell much of a difference between his heroes and his villains.
His latest book starts with a house robbery gone bad. And the rest of the book deals with the consequence of that robbery. Unfortunately, I just couldn't seem to get into the main protagonist or his family. They were just too unlikeable and I didn't want to root for any of the...more
His latest book starts with a house robbery gone bad. And the rest of the book deals with the consequence of that robbery. Unfortunately, I just couldn't seem to get into the main protagonist or his family. They were just too unlikeable and I didn't want to root for any of the...more
It was a slow moving plot, but not really a slow reading book, if that makes sense. It was pretty sick. And when I got to the end, the photo of the author was kindof what I envisioned the psycho in the book to look like, so that was creepy.
The book was good, but not great.
Adam Bloom, a psychiatrist, wakes in the night to find 2 intruders. He shoots and kills one, then spends a great deal of the book basking in the media attention and thinking he's a hero.
The second intruder vow...more
The book was good, but not great.
Adam Bloom, a psychiatrist, wakes in the night to find 2 intruders. He shoots and kills one, then spends a great deal of the book basking in the media attention and thinking he's a hero.
The second intruder vow...more
This book sucks. Man, it was hyped as being freaking awesome! But it sucked. Straight up sucked.
The book jackets actually told you who dunnit. By page 10 I hated every character and I knew who did all the murders and why.
There was absolutely no suspense whatsoever. Mostly because I was just really annoyed by all the characters; but the person I'm most annoyed at - the Author. Jason Starr, you are not the bomb. Your female characters are one dimensional. Your male lead wa...more
The book jackets actually told you who dunnit. By page 10 I hated every character and I knew who did all the murders and why.
There was absolutely no suspense whatsoever. Mostly because I was just really annoyed by all the characters; but the person I'm most annoyed at - the Author. Jason Starr, you are not the bomb. Your female characters are one dimensional. Your male lead wa...more
This book had it's high points and low points for me. The characters flaws seems to be a bit overwritten and magnified beyond what was necessary.
I normally like a book with a clear protagonist and a clear antagonist. The lines blurred in this one, which was probably intentional.
Overall I enjoyed it, but would have really liked to learn more about Johnny's background and hear less about Dad.
It was the first book I read by this author and something tells me I will be checking...more
I normally like a book with a clear protagonist and a clear antagonist. The lines blurred in this one, which was probably intentional.
Overall I enjoyed it, but would have really liked to learn more about Johnny's background and hear less about Dad.
It was the first book I read by this author and something tells me I will be checking...more
Why would David Fincher bother optioning this book to make into a movie? It saddens me that writers like this can get publishing contracts. It reads like something I remember from a creative writing workshop in college. Every character is a type instead of a fleshed out creation. You have the menopausal wife, the ignorant husband, the vapid teenage daughter, and the smooth criminal. It reads like a treatment for a movie by someone who has no real depth to their writing. This novel makes po...more
This is my second Jason Starr book. The first one was Hard Feelings. Both are dark storys with violent, non-happy endings. Things go from bad to worse in his books, and, in this one, the bad guy is really bad. You see him conning everryone in a cringe-worthy manner. The story is a train-wreck that can't be stopped. I like his page-turning writing style. It's not for evertone, but I'd read more by him.
This book was bad. The story was told from 4 perspectives, which was somewhat interesting but for each step forward, you took three back to cover everyone else's view.
The ending was terrible, I wish they had all met the same outcome.
If you have two books to read right now and this is one of them....read the other one.
The ending was terrible, I wish they had all met the same outcome.
If you have two books to read right now and this is one of them....read the other one.
This book is a thriller peopled by a group of people no one would ever want to meet. I felt that it was something of a parody of 21st century America, but am not sure that's what the author intended. In fact, I kept reading to try to figure out what the author intended. The ending was a perfect fit for the book.
Dr. Bloom is awakened one night by his 22 year old daughter Marissa claiming that there is an intruder in the house. After Dr. Bloom shoots and kills the intruder, he discovers that there were two in his house and he scares the other one away. Upset with Carlos Sanchez's death, the second intruder sets up a very effective psychologically based revenge scheme.
Nice! In this book, Starr does what he does best - creeps the beejesus out of you with some truly sick characters in situations you could never have imagined yourself. His best effort in a few years, I think! Read it!
Not a bad book, though I was sorely disappointed by the ending. There was a fair amount of build up and no real pay-off. Also, the synopsis gives the main character, Adam, way too much credit. In all reality he's pretty stupid.
picked up off New Books shelf. Good thriller storyline-- you know who did it but aren't sure when everyone's going to figure it out and how much else the bad guy might do by then.
Accused of being trigger happy after blowing away a home intruder, Dr. Adam Bloom's hopes of being a national hero turn south in a hurry. Left to pick of the pieces of a shattered marriage, a dysfunctional relationship with his daughter and tormented by the press, Adam's once perfect world comes crashing down in a blaze of glory and gore. This is Starr's most mainstream novel to date - more 'The Follower' pacing and pop fiction than 'Cold Caller' white collar noir but equally as enjoyable. Panic...more
I guess this a decent thriller. I'm just not much of a thriller person, maybe? The writing was just flat for me. Blah, blah, blah.
This book gets stars for having a plot that at least kept me going. But I hated the ending. It was so depressing and parts of the plot weren't really believable.
Jason Starr has written two novels with Ken Bruen, one of my favorites. This is a gritty hardboiled mystery.
I couldn't put it down but wouldn't say I loved it... about what happens to a family post-home invasion.
I thought that the style the story was written was different.It was kind of slow and boring.
Not my favorite Jason Starr book. I didn't get pulled in by the story or characters as much as I usually do by this author. Also, there was some sloppy editing (at least in the Kindle edition) that was distracting.
Flat writing, flat characters, flat plot - at least it's consistent.
Predictable. Kept reading hoping for an unexpected twist.
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a little too real....freakily possible
This is great: thriller and psychological comedy
Pretty good, but a little on the bleak side.
I was not happy with the ending very disappointing.
Very good book! True life story kind of! Very entertaining!
After Dr, Alan Bloom shoots and kills and intruder in his home, his life as well as those of his wife and daughter fall apart. Could it be that someone is seeking revenge for the incident?
Full of suspense and MUCH BETTER than his book The Pack.
Full of suspense and MUCH BETTER than his book The Pack.
Bleh. Neither thrilling or suspenseful. Story lines are told two and three times according to different characters, but it's the same story. Skimmed through just to get to the end thinking there might be a bombshell. Nope. Next......
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