A History of Violence (Paperback)

from freddiefreddie

Wagner presents a solid story of a man who tries to outrun his past. Yet the violence the protagonist commits seems always to be somehow justified, or at least forgivable, reminding me of the vigilante fllms of the eighties. The film probes the character more deeply by studying the nature of viol...

from rommy

Amazingly quick read, I finished it in just over an hour while waiting to board a flight. The story was a cliche revenge story of a man whose past catches up with him. Perhaps the only really compelling thing about this was that it was based on a true story. The characters and the dialogue were l...

from rommy

Amazingly quick read, I finished it in just over an hour while waiting to board a flight. The story was a cliche revenge story of a man whose past catches up with him. Perhaps the only really compelling thing about this was that it was based on a true story. The characters and the dialogue were l...

from uvula_fr_b4

The partial basis for the 2005 movie written by Josh Olson and directed by David Cronenberg, A History of Violence is a serviceable, nothing more, story of a man named Tom McKenna, proprietor of a diner in a small, unnamed Michigan town who, after successfully defending himself and his business a...

from KurtWombat

Seldom are there ever two things that we love just the same. I have always loved both movies and books—but books just a little bit more. Movies are what I see when I look out a great window but books are where I am when I walk out the door—the difference between seeing and believing. So I will ad...