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Jumper: A Novel (Jumper) | 
| Author: Steven Gould
Publisher: Tor Science Fiction
Category: Book
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Rating:  125 reviews
Sales Rank: 7456
Media: Mass Market Paperback
Edition: 1st
Pages: 352
Number Of Items: 1
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Dimensions (in): 6.7 x 4.1 x 1.2
ISBN: 0765357690
Dewey Decimal Number: 813.54
EAN: 9780765357694
ASIN: 0765357690
Publication Date: February 5, 2008
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Product Description
What if you could go anywhere in the world, in the blink of an eye? Where would you go? What would you do?
Davy can teleport.
To survive, Davy must learn to use and control his power in a world that is more violent and complex than he ever imagined. But mere survival is not enough for him. Davy wants to find others like himself, others who can Jump.
And that's a dangerous game. Jumper is a 20th Century Fox/New Regency production, starring Hayden Christensen, Samuel L. Jackson, Diane Lane, and Jamie Bell.
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 Jumper July 12, 2008
Rachel Fairbank
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
If you expect the book to be like the movie you are wrong. The book is still good but dont expect the movie when you are reading it.
 Fantastic June 22, 2008
R. H. Fawkes (New England)
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
This is the best novel I've read in months. It's a coming of age story more than anything else. If you want a book to go with the movie, you'll want Jumper: Griffin's Story. If you want a book that is worth reading, you'll want this one.
JUMPER - A NOVEL June 20, 2008
Miami Girl (Miami, FL)
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
What a great novel. Cannot put it down. I saw the movie, but the book is better. What an imagination. Never boring.
I suspect I would hate the movie June 13, 2008
Peter da Silva (Houston, TX)
The thing that I most found interesting about this book were the realistic problems that David Rice has, even as a kind of "superman", dealing with modern society as an outsider. The things that the third reviewer panned were the very things that made the story work for me.
I had not seen references to this book before I saw a DVD entitled "Jumper" at the supermarket checkout line today... and the name of the hero was David Rice, but the synopsis seemed to be describing a completely different story, so I decided to check online before buying it.
Given that the movie more or less eliminates much of what made the book interesting, I think it's unlikely that I'd like it. Thanks for the warning, Amazon. :)
 RUNAWAY!!! RUNAWAY!!!! June 11, 2008
Roger Mihalko (KC,MO)
2 out of 4 found this review helpful
Runaway!! Runaway!! terrible book! Hollow main character and supporting cast. The only thing sci-fi about this title is the word teleportation, the rest is a story about an abused juvinile runnaway who happens to have the ability to teleport.
In no way or how is this ability explained, the character barely investigates it himself. A finger under the chin "am I the only one??", ridiculas.
I came to this book in a backwards manor, by watching the movie (flawed but survivable). The back story given in the movie is of the boy who can jump/teleport, who stumbles into others who can do the same, yet they are hunted by a nefarious group called the paladins, a century upon century old war. Little is explained of the motive of the paladins, nor is there any voyage of discovery onto how they can teleport.
I went to the book liking this back story, it had promise, and hopes, that in almost all cases the book is better than the movie, NAY I SAY, CRY FOUL!!
The book is linear, predictable, limited. The teleport ability is dumbed down as a toy/escape mechanism for the lead character. The author allows the character to do things in an oversimplistic way (even limits him in his travels), as well as oversimplifies the situations he gets into, with oversimple solutions.
Avoid this, hope they make a sequel, that maybe explores the how and why so we can gets some depth on these characters, and let the war begin.
Sad, Sad, this is a case where the movie is better than the book!!how often does that happen?
Avoid it!!
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