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Cargando... Billy Summers (edición 2021)por Stephen King
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Inscríbete en LibraryThing para averiguar si este libro te gustará. Actualmente no hay Conversaciones sobre este libro. It was a character novel. Billy is a hired hit man who only kills ?bad men? and he signs on to his last kill before retiring. Things don?t quite work out that way for him. It is interesting to follow his story that he puts into words by writing a book. Kirkus: The ever prolific King moves from his trademark horror into the realm of the hard-boiled noir thriller.?He?s not a normal person. He?s a hired assassin, and if he doesn?t think like who and what he is, he?ll never get clear.? So writes King of his title character, whom the Las Vegas mob has brought in to rub out another hired gun who?s been caught and is likely to talk. Billy, who goes by several names, is a complex man, a Marine veteran of the Iraq War who?s seen friends blown to pieces; he?s perhaps numbed by PTSD, but he?s goal-oriented. He?s also a readerZola?s novel Th?rÂse Raquin figures as a MacGuffinÂ¥which sets his employer?s wheels spinning: If a reader, then why not have him pretend he?s a writer while he?s waiting for the perfect moment to make his hit? It wouldn?t be the first writer, real or imagined, King has pressed into service, and if Billy is no Jack Torrance, there?s a lovely, subtle hint of the Overlook Hotel and its spectral occupants at the end of the yarn. It?s no spoiler to say that whereas Billy carries out the hit with grim precision, things go squirrelly, complicated by his rescue of a young womanÂ¥AliceÂ¥after she?s been roofied and raped. Billy?s revenge on her behalf is less than sweet. As a memoir grows in his laptop, Billy becomes more confident as a writer: ?He doesn?t know what anyone else might think, but Billy thinks it?s good,? King writes of one day?s output. ?And good that it?s awful, because awful is sometimes the truth. He guesses he really is a writer now, because that?s a writer?s thought.? Billy?s art becomes life as Alice begins to take an increasingly important part in it, crisscrossing the country with him to carry out a final hit on an errant bad guy: ?He flopped back on the sofa, kicked once, and fell on the floor. His days of raping children and murdering sons and God knew what else were over.? That story within a story has a nice twist, and Billy?s battered copy of Zola?s book plays a part, too.Murder most foul and mayhem most entertaining. Another worthy page-turner from a protean master. Another well done Stephen King. The structure was similar to another King book I happened to just have finished, Holly. It had sections from the past. I read the book as it was written, not skipping around to read it in chronological order as I did with Holly. The book introduced characters Alice Maxwell and Roger Klerke in rather jarring fashion. I thought Ken Hoff could have filled the role Roger Klerke had. Billy Summers put on a "dumb" act to keep people who hired him off guard. It may have been a good twist if Ken Hoff was doing the same thing to Billy! 2,308 members; 3.97 average rating; 12/15/2023 Billy Summers is quite possibly the most likable hired-gun I've ever read. We learn about him as he works his "last job" and writes his memoir. As is expected in any "last job" trope, it goes sideways and while he completed the job, he has to set out to collect the payment he was stiffed on. There were a few things I didn't care for in this book - the descriptive sexual assault as revenge for sexual assault being a major one, but I did enjoy the little reference to The Shining while they were staying in Colorado. All in all this was definitely the best of King’s work I’ve read in a while. sin reseñas | añadir una reseña
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Fiction.
Suspense.
Thriller.
HTML: Stephen King, el narrador legendario de imaginacin incontenible, nos regala una espectacular novela sobre un buen tipo con un trabajo muy malo. Billy Summers es un asesino a sueldo y el mejor en lo suyo, pero tiene una norma: solo acepta un encargo si su objetivo es realmente mala persona. Ahora Billy quiere dejarlo, pero todava le queda un ltimo golpe. Y siendo uno de los mejores francotiradores del mundo, un veterano condecorado de la guerra de Irak, un autntico Houdini cuando toca desaparecer despus de finiquitar un trabajo, qu podra salirle mal? Todo. Reseas: En Billy Summers (como ya lo hizo en Misery) King insiste en la idea de que escribir es sobrevivir y que no hay nada ms importante que el vivir para contarlo. Excombatiente de la guerra de Irak, Billy Summers tiene un pasado ms jodido que el de Rambo, pero es un tipo estupendo: buen vecino, buen niero,buen amante... Y un soldado que sabe que nunca se deja atrs a un compaero, aun cuando esto sea un mal negocio. Con Billy Summers, su segunda novela en un ao, el Rey del Terror vuelve a su mejor nivel. Si su ingenuidad sin malevolencia es el atractivo de Billy Summers, a medida que avanza la accin se transforma en un justiciero digno de admiracin. Todo confluye, una vez ms, en lo que probablemente sea El Tema recurrente de King: el hacer justicia deshaciendo injusticia. Una negra crtica a la sociedad con la que el prolfico escritor vuelve a ponernosfrente al horror, pero en esta ocasin enfrentndonos a nosotros mismos y a la sociedad en la que vivimos. Billy Summers lo tiene todo: es una inquietante novela criminal, es una dulce historia de amor, es un crudo relato de guerra, es tambin un excelentemanual sobre cmo escribir un libro y, adems, una trepidante trama de venganza, al estilo de las de Yo soy la justicia. No hay asesinato ms criminal ni caos ms entretenido. Otra lectura adictiva de un maestro de mente proteica. Otra novedad excepcional de un escritor que siempre les da a los lectores mucho ms de lo que esperan. En Billy Summers no hay elementos sobrenaturales (salvo una referencia oculta a cierto hotel embrujado). En lugar de eso, [Stephen King] se pone en modo noir y nos cuenta el relato de un asesino a sueldo con un ltimo trabajo por delante... Y es su mejor libro en aos. Billy Summers est tan plagada de monstruos como sus anteriores novelas. Pero no son de los paranormales que solemos asociar al maestro del terror. Aqu, los monstruos son asesinos, mafiosos, violadores y ladrones... En resumen, maleantes de la peor calaa. Ahora tambin es el Rey del Crimen? Stephen King da en el clavo con su thrillersobre un asesino a sueldo, Billy Summers. Billy Summers es mitad El da del Chacal, mitad homenaje a la parte ms rural de Estados Unidos, mitad historia de amor y completamente adictiva. No se han encontrado descripciones de biblioteca. |
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