Jumper

I liked the movie. I thought it was fun. It eventually led me to read this book. I think the book is of its time. It reads like a young adult novel, with an emphasis on the adversity in which the protagonist was raised. I read it to the end, always hoping it would be better. It just never panned out. It was very linear storytelling. There were no real surprises.

I recommend this book to everyone. many people think they don't like science fiction. Or books. So this is the book I recommend to everyone like that. It's a very easy read. Fast paced. Page turner. It makes you think. It's clever. It's fun. Nothing like the movie. There is only one jumper in this book on the entire planet. In the movie there are many. Anyway I read about 50 books per year and this is my number one goto book to recommend to people who don't read as much as me.

I was surprised that the movie vastly differed from the book. I think it made it an almost new story because they are so different. Really if you had the ability to teleport what would you do? I think I would do a lot of the same things Davey does. I'm excited to read the next book in the series so I can see what happens next. This is definitely a series like Maze Runner, The Hunger Games, and Divergent where I can't read them fast enough and sad that they end.

I really enjoyed this book. I can see why they made a movie and TV show about it. The characters were great. The plot was captivating. The story was interesting.There were a few problems. There was too much profanity in this story for young children. This book also joins with other media in encouraging sexual relations before marriage.I've read some of Steven's latest work and found it much improved in this area.

The premise of this book isn't bad; it's just never really developed as it could have been. Several potential directions are hinted at, but are never explored, such as others with the ability the main character displays, or possibly trying to understand how the central figure does what he does. Not bad... just expect to spend the last quarter of the book reading the same phrases over and over.

David Rice is a highly intelligent, well read, seventeen year old boy, who has been physically and verbally abused by his father for years. Abandoned by his mother, Mary, when he was twelve, because David's father, her husband, also battered her, David decides that he cannot take any more abuse. In a moment of great personal angst, he discovers that he can teleport himself to a safe place. So, begins a new life for David and a most excellent adventure for the reader.David, to his own amazement, can teleport, but there there is a method to the madness, which he soon discovers. His new ability, however, enables him to not have to return home. He, instead, starts a new life for himself, one which the reader will enjoy sharing, as his new found ability, which he calls "jumping", leads to many interesting situations. Some of the situations in which he gets involved turn him into an unusual sort of super hero. Inventive and absorbing, this is a very special coming of age story that will keep the reader turning the pages.The only problem with the book is that many of David's initial problems, while on his own, arise out of his lack of a social security number. This is a highly unlikely case scenario, because David would have needed a social security number for some of the standardized tests a student is required to take, as the social security number would act as the student's identification number. Moreover, his father would have needed David's social security number in order to claim him as a deduction on his income tax return. This is, however, the only false note in this otherwise totally delightful tale of a young man with powers of teleportation and the ways in which he puts his ability to use.

So much better than the movie - much better story and antagonists. I actually didn't know that this was a book until u came across the YouTube Original show Impulse. Impulse reminded me Jumper so much that I looked into it... What do you know, a series of books. The first was a great intro to the world of teleportation. I've got the second book queued up.

I initially skipped this book because I had seen the movie, and I read reflex. It was such an absorbing book that I decided to start at the beginning by reading Jumper. I was really surprised at how different this book was from the movie. It was so, so , so much better than the movie.It was completely absorbing and the well-developed characters were so different from those depicted in the movie. In the movie, Davie was not all that likeable. In the book, Davie was a character anyone could relate to and feel for. The reader really gets hooked into caring about him. There are some major plot differences from the movie (don't want to give too much away), and I wish they had created the movie from the book. It was so much more believable and interesting.I couldn't put this book down. I highly recommend this book to anyone who loves sci-fi adventure, even if you've seen the movie!