First Blood Book Reviews

AUTHOR
David Morrell
SCORE
4.5
TOTAL RATINGS
417

First Blood by David Morrell Book Summary

From New York Times bestselling author, David Morrell, comes a classic thriller that introduced the character of Rambo, one of the most iconic action heroes of the twentieth century.

Called “the father of the modern action novel,” FIRST BLOOD changed the genre. Although the book and the film adaptation have similarities, they are very different, especially its unexpected ending and its greater intensity. If you’ve only experienced the film, you’re in for a surprise.

Once they were soldiers. Rambo, the ragged kid whose presence in town is considered a threat. And Teasle, the Chief of Police of Madison, Kentucky. Both have been trained to kill: Rambo in Vietnam, Teasle in Korea. They learned different military tactics, different ways of death and survival in two different wars.

Now, without warning, they are enemies in a civilian combat that becomes a chase through the woods and mountains and caves above the town. As we follow them, we understand that once a man has been trained as a killer, perhaps he is changed forever.

Award-winning FIRST BLOOD was published in 1972, was translated into 26 languages, and has never been out of print. It was one of the first novels to deal with post-traumatic stress disorder.

David’s novelizations for RAMBO (FIRST BLOOD PART II) and RAMBO III are available as e-books. They’re quite different from the films and include revealing introductions. See also David’s RAMBO AND ME: THE STORY BEHIND THE STORY.

Critical reactions:

“A fine novel. . . . When Johnny comes marching home this time, watch out.”
—The New York Times Sunday Book Review

“A first-rate thriller.”
—Newsweek

“One of the finest chase novels you will ever read.”
—Minneapolis Tribune

“A terrific thriller.”
—Saturday Review

“One hell of a hard, fast novel.”
—John D. MacDonald

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Book Name First Blood
Genre Action & Adventure
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Language English
E-Book Size 323.72 KB

First Blood (David Morrell) Book Reviews 2024

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Unexpected and better than any thought. I saw the movie first. However, I wanted to read the book just to see the differences between the move and the original novel. The book was very different and almost to different stories. I have to say I like the book better.

Surprise ending. Fun read. The cave was so unnerving I had to put the book down for a while to stop an anxiety attack.

Amazing. A great story that truly tells the story of the way America was during the Vietnam war.

Frankensteins Monster. This book is written with real urgency. It pushes deeper, past the standard 2 dimensional pulp characters I was expecting. Stallone once said he thought of Rambo as a Zen Frankenstein. The cause and effect of PTSD are on full display here. Monster and creator.

Timeless. From beginning to end, the minutes and pages will fly by without you taking notice. Another Master Piece by The Master. Huzzahh! Huzzahh!! Huzzahh!!!

Much better than any Rambo movie. I always liked the movie First Blood better than any of the sequels, but even that was a watered down version of the original book. Would love to see a more faithful adaptation.

Wow. Storyline and characters are about the same as the movie, But the story is MUCH MUCH BETTER!

Don’t read the Introduction before the book. If you have only ever seen the movie and it’s your first time reading the book. DONT READ THE INTRODUCTION. Read it after you finish the book. The Introduction has great information about how the book became the movie but it also contains many spoilers including how the book ends. This is a great book and a recommended read.

Jack Carr recommended this.. Carr in his last book, Only The Dead, recommends this book. Glad he did. This book is excellent.

Md. Great work of fiction and depiction of the clashing cultures in America at the time. Movie does not do it justice.

First Blood Review. I absolutely loved this book but it broke my heart. The movie about the book was what interested me so much and there are a lot of differences. Having seen the movie first influences a lot of my predictions but there could not have been a better ending to a timeless american action hero. I am worried about the next two books first blood prt. 2 and rambo 3, since james cameron helped write the book. Great story for any outdoors man. Enough said.

Great writing, lousy table of contents. I would have given 5 stars for the excellent writing in this book. But I took away a star because of the table of contents, which caused me a lot of frustration. First, there are chapters missing. Chapter 14 appears as the first chapter of part 2, and chapter 18 appears as the first chapter of part 3 in the table of contents. However, upon reading, you find that the chapter numbering in reality is not continuous from part to part. That is, each part starts with a chapter 1 and does not simply add 1 to the last chapter of the previous part. Therefore, the table of contents is missing chapters 1-13 (and 14, which I will explain below) of part 2 and chapters 1-17 of part 3. Second, chapter 14 is shown as being in part 2 in the table of contents. But it is really chapter 14 of part 3. Third, the problems listed above cause the wrong number of pages remaining in a chapter to be shown, starting in part 2. All this causes some frustration when trying to go to a certain chapter that is not shown (or is shown incorrectly) in the table of contents. It also makes it hard to pace your reading, when you want to know how many pages are left in a chapter but need to swipe through the chapter to get an accurate page count.

Great. Just Gerat

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Summary of First Blood by David Morrell

The First Blood book written by David Morrell was published on 07 October 2011, Friday in the Action & Adventure category. A total of 417 readers of the book gave the book 4.5 points out of 5.

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