Pines Author: Blake Crouch | Language: English | ISBN:
B007FG9LIE | Format: EPUB
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2013 International Thriller Award Nominee
Secret service agent Ethan Burke arrives in Wayward Pines, Idaho, with a clear mission: locate and recover two federal agents who went missing in the bucolic town one month earlier. But within minutes of his arrival, Ethan is involved in a violent accident. He comes to in a hospital, with no ID, no cell phone, and no briefcase. The medical staff seems friendly enough, but something feels…off. As the days pass, Ethan’s investigation into the disappearance of his colleagues turns up more questions than answers. Why can’t he get any phone calls through to his wife and son in the outside world? Why doesn’t anyone believe he is who he says he is? And what is the purpose of the electrified fences surrounding the town? Are they meant to keep the residents in? Or something else out? Each step closer to the truth takes Ethan further from the world he thought he knew, from the man he thought he was, until he must face a horrifying fact—he may never get out of Wayward Pines alive. Intense and gripping, Pines is another masterful thriller from the mind of bestselling novelist Blake Crouch.
- File Size: 1543 KB
- Print Length: 315 pages
- Publisher: Thomas & Mercer (August 21, 2012)
- Sold by: Amazon Digital Services, Inc.
- Language: English
- ASIN: B007FG9LIE
- Text-to-Speech: Enabled
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I did not finish the book. I have read in multiple places that the ending is quite a twist, but just can't be bothered for a number of reasons.
1. the protagonist is unlikeable. Now, I have read books with anti-hero or unlikeable protagonists, but usually that is where you are meant not to like the protagonist or feel for the protagonist or identify with the protagonist. Here, it is clear we are supposed to like, identify with and feel for Ethan. Here are some reasons why I could not do any of that:
2. He is a federal agent, but acts like a spoiled child from the get-go. In what world do you walk into a hotel and expect to be given a free room with no identification, no means of payment, etc? Merely by saying "I'm a federal agent", as if that entitles you to anything you want?
3. Same answer with regard to the local sheriff. At the beginning of the book, before he knows what is going on, he again believes the local sheriff must take him at his word and do what he says because he states "i'm a federal agent."
4. He repeatedly thinks to himself that "I"m a federal agent, these people have to do what I tell them" which is not reality even if he had his credentials, let alone when he does not.
5. He walks around barely able to move because of alleged excruciating pain but won't go to the hotel - again before he knows what is going on.
6. All of his early decisions are idiotic. I'm going to go into this bar and demand free food. I'm going to go to this hotel and demand a free room. I'm not going to take a shower. I'm not going to stay in the hospital despite enormous pain.
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