First Blood edition by David Morrell Literature Fiction eBooks
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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
First Blood edition by David Morrell Literature Fiction eBooks
Ever since I was a little boy, I’ve been a fan of Rambo. But I wasn’t a fan of the Rambo that most people think of when they talk about the character. My first exposure was Rambo: First Blood part II. It was nearly 20 years before I saw First Blood from beginning to end, and I was immensely surprised by the tonal differences from the sequels.Surprised, but not upset. First Blood was a pretty damn fine film, and when I found out that the series was based on a book, I knew I wanted to read it. It would be another handful of years before I got around to it: I’ve only just read the book this week.
The first day I had it, I burned through 100 pages in a single sitting. That’s not how I tend to read, because as much as I enjoy reading, my eyes aren’t what they once were and the constant pain in my body makes it difficult to focus on reading for long periods of time. I moved through the remainder of the book much slower than in that first sitting – about 20 pages at a time – but I still got through it in five days. That’s a lot faster than I read most books.
I'll avoid talking too much about the plot, as most people will know it by now. But there are some things I want to touch on.
Spoilers below.
What really stands out about the book is just how... proactive Rambo is when compared to the film version. He has no qualms with straight murdering people: during the jail escape, he immediately disembowels a man with the razor Teasle is trying to use to shave him. Later in the woods, he uses a rifle to kill the police office that’s shooting at him from the helicopter and managed to force the thing into crashing, killing the pilot. He then lays an ambush for Teasle’s men and wastes no time gunning down the 70-year-old dog trainer.
I could go on, but you get the idea. Once he’s switched back on during his Vietnam flashback, he never shuts it down again. The movie version seems reluctant to cause harm, he goes out of his way not to kill people. Not so in the book. Rambo’s body count is astronomical. It’s an interesting thematic difference.
The whole third act is really different from the film, especially where Trautman is concerned. In the book, Trautman knows Rambo by reputation alone, they don’t share the close familial bond depicted in the film. Trautman’s role in events is greatly increased in the film, and it’s for the better.
Over all I think it's a very good book, I highly recommend people read it. The film does some things better, but the book gets deeper into characterizing both Rambo and Teasle, something the film could have desperately used. I'd also suggest giving the film a watch as soon as you're done reading the book. They compliment each other well, especially if it's been a while since you've seen First Blood.
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First Blood edition by David Morrell Literature Fiction eBooks Reviews
Word of Advice Do NOT Read the "Rambo & Me" Introduction by the author. There is a huge spoiler that'll ruin the ending for the reader. Anyways, on with the review. The first thing you want to do, is forget everything you maybe already know about Rambo as best you can. Here Rambo isn't another one of Sly Stallone's characters from the 80's. Here he is just a young vagrant walking or hitchhiking on the roads. But he is only half the story. The other half is Police Chief Teasle, who for the most part calls Rambo "The Kid" from his perspective. He just takes him for another college-age hippy vagabond and unlike in the movie where Rambo had an army jacket and dogtags, there is nothing to indicate that Rambo was a veteran. The movie made Teasle an antagonist and someone to almost come to hate, while the book might make him a more likable character than Rambo, which was definitely more likely before the movie came out. Teasle has his personal issues in his life such as his divorce, his wife moving away and his relationship with Orval. Over time you see Teasle become more and more fixated on getting Rambo, but you can't really hate the guy. Rambo on the other hand was a person who had gotten in confrontations and even killed before being sent to war. In the book, he has a huge chip on his shoulder about what he had gone through in Vietnam which is why he is probably more the antagonist then Teasle. He's more ruthless in the book than he was in the first movie. One guy in a helicopter and maybe two state police officers and a national guardsman. One maybe four was the maximum killcount in the movie, in the book that number is bigger and the destruction at the end is even greater. Compared to the character from the novel, Sylvester Stallone's character from the film was toned down and easily sympathetic. Sam Trautman was also another character who also greatly differed from the his movie counterpart. Col. Trautman in the book wasn't Rambo's commanding officer in Vietnam, but rather in charge of the facility that trained him. Sam Trautman is supposed to represent "Uncle Sam" as Dr. Frankenstein who created the monster.
This book is 100 percent anti-war. It is about a small version of the Vietnam war being brought back to America as a Korean Was veteran and police chief hunts down a disturbed Vietnam War veteran who can easily take a life like it was nothing. It doesn't just show the brutality of fighting a war, but also the outcome and the aftermath. Soldier come back with scares. Some are more brutal than others and others aren't scares you can see. Those were the kind of scares Rambo carried. Uncle Sam needed a fighting machine and in the end received a monster.
Read this book, not only if you are interested in the source material that led to the creation of one of the most memorable and influential action heroes of the late 20th Century, but also if you want to read a good psychological thriller that explores war and what it leaves in its path of destruction as it's brought home.
This novel is a good read, very enjoyable. Having seen the Stallone movie version first, tainted my understanding of it, though. It is much different from the film. The setting is the American South, and it reads as a distinctive Southern story. Some of the dialogue is written in a way that is hard to follow; real people don't talk the way the long-winded characters in this novel do. The first act gets a little tedious, although it could be seen as a 'point of no return' act which was done in a very foreboding, effective manner. The Rambo character bears almost no resemblance to the movie version; He kills Gault in a different way in the novel. He is caught and manages to escape from Teasle about four separate times on the vagrancy beef before the final escape. The novel Rambo is more talkative than the movie version. Novel Rambo strikes a tone of being more belligerent, more 'anti-social' than the movie version, and with a major chip on his shoulder; movie Rambo was portrayed by Stallone as more a-social and generally more worn down from life. I haven't finished it yet so I can't give it 5 stars.
I read this book as a teenager after seeing the movie. I had no idea how different the book would be.
Like the movie, there's a lot of action. Conditioned by the movie, I saw Rambo was the hero, and Teasle was the antagonist. But the book isn't necessarily written that way. The two are the two sides of America during the late 60s.
I've reread this book several times, mostly the way one watches the same movie now and again. I'm too emotionally attached to be an objective reviewer.
Ever since I was a little boy, I’ve been a fan of Rambo. But I wasn’t a fan of the Rambo that most people think of when they talk about the character. My first exposure was Rambo First Blood part II. It was nearly 20 years before I saw First Blood from beginning to end, and I was immensely surprised by the tonal differences from the sequels.
Surprised, but not upset. First Blood was a pretty damn fine film, and when I found out that the series was based on a book, I knew I wanted to read it. It would be another handful of years before I got around to it I’ve only just read the book this week.
The first day I had it, I burned through 100 pages in a single sitting. That’s not how I tend to read, because as much as I enjoy reading, my eyes aren’t what they once were and the constant pain in my body makes it difficult to focus on reading for long periods of time. I moved through the remainder of the book much slower than in that first sitting – about 20 pages at a time – but I still got through it in five days. That’s a lot faster than I read most books.
I'll avoid talking too much about the plot, as most people will know it by now. But there are some things I want to touch on.
Spoilers below.
What really stands out about the book is just how... proactive Rambo is when compared to the film version. He has no qualms with straight murdering people during the jail escape, he immediately disembowels a man with the razor Teasle is trying to use to shave him. Later in the woods, he uses a rifle to kill the police office that’s shooting at him from the helicopter and managed to force the thing into crashing, killing the pilot. He then lays an ambush for Teasle’s men and wastes no time gunning down the 70-year-old dog trainer.
I could go on, but you get the idea. Once he’s switched back on during his Vietnam flashback, he never shuts it down again. The movie version seems reluctant to cause harm, he goes out of his way not to kill people. Not so in the book. Rambo’s body count is astronomical. It’s an interesting thematic difference.
The whole third act is really different from the film, especially where Trautman is concerned. In the book, Trautman knows Rambo by reputation alone, they don’t share the close familial bond depicted in the film. Trautman’s role in events is greatly increased in the film, and it’s for the better.
Over all I think it's a very good book, I highly recommend people read it. The film does some things better, but the book gets deeper into characterizing both Rambo and Teasle, something the film could have desperately used. I'd also suggest giving the film a watch as soon as you're done reading the book. They compliment each other well, especially if it's been a while since you've seen First Blood.
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