Nick's Reviews > Green River Rising

Green River Rising is about a prison riot. It is violent, tough, has plenty of tension, a menacing atmosphere and great characters.

It also happens to be my all time favourite five star book.

It is the book I will never forget and the book that changed my life.

Green River Rising was published in 1994 when I was 20 years old. I had not read a work of fiction for years. Reading books for enjoyment?!? Are you crazy? I had read books in my youth but not any more. Books are boring!

I was (and still am) a big movie fan and Reservoir Dogs was my favourite film. It had introduced me to a whole new world of film. It also influenced many movies and books.

I read a review of Green River Rising which placed it in the same vein as Reservoir Dogs (agree? disagree?) which got my attention. I went to my local book store (a strange unknown place to me) and there on display at the front was Green River Rising.

The cover leapt out at me (the 1994 paperback cover is not on goodreads) and I immediately bought the book. I read it in a few days.

I discovered a whole new world (book stores and finding secondhand books hidden in charity shops)and the pleasure of reading (all time classics and genre fiction). I set off on my book journey, which has brought me here.