The Five

"How long did you give your life to the dream, before it took your life?" Initial Thoughts The Great Robert McCammon Read-through continues and the end is in sight with two more novels to go after I bought tickets for his rock and roll blockbuster...The Five. If you don't know by now, I'm a hu......more

The song track 'Highway to Hell' by AC/DC comes to mind and as I am singing this chorus I think of the band featured in this novel The Five and their very rocky journey in a kind of hellish circumstances. This is an excellent rock and roller story that is fully of high quality storytelling that shou......more

I'm inclined to strongly disagree with Mr. S. King of Bangor. The Five is definitely not Mr. McCammon's best book. It's nowhere even close to that. The Five is not "putdownable," not "full of rock and roll energy" not a book I'll "beg my friends to read" as suggested by Stephen King on the back dust......more

The Five has been on my radar for at least four years, and I’ve finally read it. After also working through Boy’s Life, They Thirst, and Gone South this year, one thing is for sure: Robert McCammon is now tied with Stephen King as my favorite author. Really! This tome follows The Five — an independe......more

THE FIVE is Robert McCammon’s messiest, strangest work of fiction. That may not sound like a good thing. You’d be wrong. See, this is a novel about the last days of a hardscrabble indie rock band — the titular “The Five” — and the horror they endure at the hands of a schizo sniper, a horror that ultima......more