- Paperback: 224 pages
- Publisher: Hodder Children's Books (13 May 2004)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0340882018
- ISBN-13: 978-0340882016
- Product Dimensions: 20.4 x 12.8 x 1.8 cm
- Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (1 customer review)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 446,382 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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A must for thriller fans. (Full On! )
Acceleration is a chilling and dark page-turner that older teenagers will not find tame or condescending (south china morning post )
Acceleration is a read-it-in-one-go thriller that keeps you on the edge of your seat. Is that a shiver that just passed down your spine? (south china sunday morning post )
'Acceleration has all the excitement of a roller-coaster with its fast paced storyline and shocking ending ... Congratulations to Graham McNamee on a great psychological thriller. (Herts & Essex Observer Series )
Acceleration is a chilling and dark page-turner that older teenagers will not find tame or condescending (south china morning post )
Acceleration is a read-it-in-one-go thriller that keeps you on the edge of your seat. Is that a shiver that just passed down your spine? (south china sunday morning post )
'Acceleration has all the excitement of a roller-coaster with its fast paced storyline and shocking ending ... Congratulations to Graham McNamee on a great psychological thriller. (Herts & Essex Observer Series )
south china morning post
Acceleration is a chilling and dark page-turner that older teenagers will not find tame or condescending
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Format:Paperback
Duncan is having a very boring summer, working at his mind-numbing job at the Toronto Transit Authority's lost and found. He sorts through old junk no one wants anymore and boxes up all of the "expired" items to be donated.
One very ordinary day he was looking for a book to read when he comes across a brown leather bound journal. He begins reading it and soon figures out that the person who is writing this is seriously deranged! It's like this journal is the book of weird and twisted science experiments this person has been conducting. There are even women in the book that he follows that he plans on killing.
Duncan, along with his two best friends, take it upon themselves to find out who this freak is!
I really liked this book. The story is very addictive; I couldn't put it down!
Reviewed by: Taylor Rector
One very ordinary day he was looking for a book to read when he comes across a brown leather bound journal. He begins reading it and soon figures out that the person who is writing this is seriously deranged! It's like this journal is the book of weird and twisted science experiments this person has been conducting. There are even women in the book that he follows that he plans on killing.
Duncan, along with his two best friends, take it upon themselves to find out who this freak is!
I really liked this book. The story is very addictive; I couldn't put it down!
Reviewed by: Taylor Rector
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15 of 15 people found the following review helpful
Accelerate Your Heart Rate
2 Sep 2004
Format:Hardcover|Amazon Verified Purchase
Acceleration is a wonderfully written suspense novel. This book actually got my heart rate up. Finding out what acceleration means is an interesting part of this novel.
Some who are critical of this novel must not have read all of it because all of the preliminary facts and details suck the reader into the world of the main character, Duncan. By the time you realize you are totally immersed in the cold, dark, murky existence of Duncan and his nightmares, you are hooked.
McNamee does a tremendous job with the setup, which makes the climax a thrilling peak to the intriguing story of a lost soul who finds himself depressed by his recent past, and looking for a way to make up for mistakes he feels so much responsibility for.
The main character, Duncan, gets himself in WAY over his head and nearly drowns himself in a world of terror and PURE FEAR and adrenaline that moves this novel to a perfect conclusion.
Whatever the author did, he did it right because I forgot where I was and actually became immersed in the world that exists in the novel. I FELT the fear and the adrenaline rush that leads to the book's climax and resolution.
Fantastic book!
Some who are critical of this novel must not have read all of it because all of the preliminary facts and details suck the reader into the world of the main character, Duncan. By the time you realize you are totally immersed in the cold, dark, murky existence of Duncan and his nightmares, you are hooked.
McNamee does a tremendous job with the setup, which makes the climax a thrilling peak to the intriguing story of a lost soul who finds himself depressed by his recent past, and looking for a way to make up for mistakes he feels so much responsibility for.
The main character, Duncan, gets himself in WAY over his head and nearly drowns himself in a world of terror and PURE FEAR and adrenaline that moves this novel to a perfect conclusion.
Whatever the author did, he did it right because I forgot where I was and actually became immersed in the world that exists in the novel. I FELT the fear and the adrenaline rush that leads to the book's climax and resolution.
Fantastic book!
4 of 4 people found the following review helpful
You will get a boost of ACCELERATION with this book!
15 April 2005
Format:Hardcover
Imagine this: you're looking around for something to read when you find this little brown book that turns out to be a diary. Inside you find the dirty and sick writings of an unknown writer. That's what happens to 14 year old Duncan in the book Acceleration written by Graham McNamee.
Duncan is a normal, average teenager living in Toronto, a place known as the Jungle. He also works a normal job every day, but it's the subway lost and found, which he calls the Dungeon. There is no air or sunlight, so you can imagine what he's going through. While trying to pass the endless hours of his shift, he finds a little brown book that was turned in ten days ago. But that little brown book isn't just an average book, it's the diary of a crazy serial killer, who Duncan calls Roach. Roach has drowned mice, hung cats, started numerous fires, and is now "hunting" three women and planning to kill them. Duncan knows its up to him to put the pieces of this puzzle together, think like a serial killer thinks, find and stop this killer before he strikes and it's too late.
I really liked the book Acceleration because of its fast-paced action and feeling of the clock ticking and time running out. If you like realistic fiction books with lots of suspense and action, Acceleration is the book for you! This book will make you stay at the edge of your seat throughout the entire story.
Duncan is a normal, average teenager living in Toronto, a place known as the Jungle. He also works a normal job every day, but it's the subway lost and found, which he calls the Dungeon. There is no air or sunlight, so you can imagine what he's going through. While trying to pass the endless hours of his shift, he finds a little brown book that was turned in ten days ago. But that little brown book isn't just an average book, it's the diary of a crazy serial killer, who Duncan calls Roach. Roach has drowned mice, hung cats, started numerous fires, and is now "hunting" three women and planning to kill them. Duncan knows its up to him to put the pieces of this puzzle together, think like a serial killer thinks, find and stop this killer before he strikes and it's too late.
I really liked the book Acceleration because of its fast-paced action and feeling of the clock ticking and time running out. If you like realistic fiction books with lots of suspense and action, Acceleration is the book for you! This book will make you stay at the edge of your seat throughout the entire story.
4 of 4 people found the following review helpful
reluctant reader teacher
8 Mar 2007
Format:Mass Market Paperback
As a high school teacher of a class full of reading haters, I highly recommend this book. My students were sad when it was over, they couldn't wait to get to class to read this suspenseful thriller.
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