白白浪费了我好几天时间，完美综合了欧美小说所有的缺点，极度啰嗦，废话连篇，毫无情节可言，人物名字混乱，全程对话都是插科打诨，没有一句正经的，作者应该是一个觉得自己超级幽默，极度自恋的人。没有任何构思，就是一个绑架案，罪犯威胁要直播砍人质的头，然后从头到尾都是在各个角色在说废话，居然可以凑出几百页。等了半天以为这群间谍能有什么惊心动魄的营救，原来就是黑掉绑匪的GPS。而且等他们黑掉GPS的时候，绑匪早就动手了，人质获救的原因竟然是——你能猜到吗？就是绑匪追他的时候自己摔了一脚把脚扭了，然后人质就捡起了斧头。。。你能相信吗？这就是大结局。真的，欧美人怎么会这么钟意这种垃圾作品呢？豆瓣上和Amazon上居然都是好评如潮，真不知道都是怎么忍着看完整本书的。
贴一些Amazon上的差评吧，给大家参考一下。如果你看了几十页还是觉得形同嚼蜡，不知所云，相信你自己的判读，放弃吧。
I have to say, Slow Horses is about the slowest book I have ever read. It was torture trying to get through the first 80% and after that it still dragged. I thought it might be just me, but went back and read some other reviews and now know I am not insane -other felt the same as me.
The only thing this book is good for is as a lesson on how not to write. I made it a third of the way through and threw in the towel.
Some times the author names them by last name; next time nickname; then maybe first name, or heck, even middle name, you’ll spend your time reading this and wondering whose who and what the hell is happening.
I read about one fourth of the book and decided to stop my self torture. I know that it comes with glowing recommendations and therefore it is possible that it is a great book. You should judge by yourselves. I found it slow, boring and ugly plus somewhat confusing.
Some of the worst writing ever published. This guy is no Le Carré, in case the absurd raves led you to believe otherwise. So bad it’s not only trite but tediously punishing to read. You wanna take a red pen and demolish most of it. Incredible the publisher thought such sub-standard prose was print-ready. Or was it beyond repair? It’s certainly beyond no style. It’s borderline illiterate.
This is a horribly mediocre read in all respects noted here. I wish I’d read these reviews before buying this book, through which I’d hope to find a likeable new (to me) series. I only disagree with one reviewer here: Invoking the comparison to LeCarre is an insult to the latter.
‘Slow Horses’ is a miserably slow developing story that is thin on plot. It is written in voluminous ‘patches’ of repetitious information that go on for pages about the characters in the story. The author’s abundant use of pronouns and frequent change of ‘scene’ makes the story difficult to follow. It seems as though a key note of the author’s style is obfuscation of the story line. Reading this is like slogging through thick, knee deep mud.
…I am a huge book reader…..and I always read the whole book…but not this one…..it jumps around with no warning from one paragraph to the next……I’m always trying to figure out who the character is that he is using because of the jumping……I couldn’t get a feel for the characters and they did things that were unusual and never was explained…….maybe the ending was good…I don’t know….never got there….it was SLOOOOOW horses for sure….!