Books I've Read (2008): Scarecrow

[coprime]

You know what's a really effective way to motivate yourself to read? Be away from home for a month and try to ward off homesickness by reading rollercoaster ride books.

Scarecrow (Shane Schofield #3), by Matthew Reilly: Yeah, I read book three in the series first because the store didn't have book one, and I thought Scarecrow sounded more fun than Area 7. Which worked out fine since I don't care about spoilers, and the book stands on its own well. It was a very, very fun book too! I kept being reminded of this one scene from Die Hard 4 where Bruce Willis launches a car into the air and takes down a helicopter with it. It's a scene that's really awesome to watch while it's also comepletely ridiculous, and the entirety of Scarecrow is like that.

Seriously, at one point a guy gets microwaved to death, it's awesome.

Comments

[coprime]

One of the bad guys built a room with several large microwave emitters in the wall. Here, let me quote you the most awesome bit:

As the humming noise hit fever-pitch, his little brother's chest just burst open, his whole rib cage blurting outward in a disgusting spray of blood and gore.

[glenraven.livejournal.com]

huh somehow I thought it would be written cooler, I mean you coulda said an alien was being born in his chest and it woulda been the same LOL.

pretty gross though

[coprime]

Well, there's build-up and stuff too, but I didn't want to type out five pages. Also, the book is sort of written in a way to make boys go, "Whoa, cool!" if that makes sense.