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 The Lee Childs Travel Guide to New York City December 29, 2008
Danny Boy (Falls Church, VA)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Well, Jack's still cool, but the Reacher plots continue to sink deeper down the septic tank. What is there to take away from this plot? Thing 1: Lee Childs loves being a "New Yorker" (expat fake that he is), so get ready to learn the names or numbers of every street on the swanky Lower West Side (which today is inundated with blue-blood European neo-colonizers). Thing 2: U.S. supported elite ex-military mercenary guys (think "Blackwater") are behind most of the violence that goes on in really violent places like Africa and the Middle East. Thing 3: Reacher never changes his clothes, rarely showers, goes around covered in blood, guts, and gore, and no one seems to care or even notice... especially sophisticated women who love the fact that the only clean thing about him are his teeth (though he never seems to have toothpaste). Thing 4: Reacher never works-out but somehow gets stronger and more massive with age. Snapping someone's wrist is as easy as breaking a wishbone for old man Reacher. Summary: I still like Reacher in spite of himself, and hope Lee Childs gives him some better material to work with very soon; in the meantime, think I'll give Reacher a long rest, and reread Stephen Hunter's very cool and much more believable Bob Lee Swagger series starting with "Point of Impact."
No mystery, no characters, just a relentless plot December 14, 2008
K. R. Anderson (Westborough, MA)
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
I started "The Hard Way" with hopes that the book would usher me into a new series I'd like. The book starts out well, but soon falters. There are numerous problems with the book, mostly pertaining to the author's apparent limitations.
First, everybody, and I mean EVERYBODY, speaks in the same manner. It doesn't matter if they're young, old, male, female, American, British, military, or civilian, they all speak in the same way, with the same tired cliche vocabularies, staccato sentence fragments, and machismo. It really becomes annoying.
Second, the "mystery" is pretty obvious. I had it figured out about 1/4 of the way into the book -- not the plot, but the basic outline of who was doing what.
Third, the obsessive attention to detail really gets boring. Does every facet on the cut-glass chandelier in the high-ceilinged, oak-paneled, maroon-carpeted lobby that smells of cigars and cosmetic counters as the filtered sunlight fades through the glass doorways, one revolving bracketed by a standard push door on either side -- does all this need to be described every time something appears? I found myself quickly searching for dialog so I could stop reading about every crack in the sidewalk.
Finally, the finale is just a little silly. The amazing deception Reacher enacts at the end has plenty of holes in it, and these are apparent as you read it (as if they wouldn't hear a 6'3" 250# guy running full-speed when their senses are piqued and they're under attack).
All in all, a disappointment. Starts out great, soon falters, and then drifts into a monotony of dialog and detail and weak plotting. Too bad.
I have read FOUR Jack Reacher novels . . . . September 4, 2008
Jessica Anya Blau, author, The Summer of Naked Swim Parties (Maryland)
. . . and if you knew me, you might be surprised. I write novels about California, where people swim naked, have sex, and smoke a lot of pot. Nothing like that happens in Lee Child's novels! But these books are thrilling, fast-paced, intriguing. And I must admit, I find them sort of sexy. Yes, sexy. The whole man without a country/family/homebase thing is the perfect escape from a life that's often made up of carpool lines, dishes and laundry.
 Another Great Jack Reacher Story August 19, 2008
Vicky Kelsh (Sixes, Oregon)
If you are familiar with Lee Child, then I'm sure you will enjoy The Hard Way, which is his tenth thriller that deals with Jack Reacher. He is a favorite character of mine. In this book (just like in all the previous novels) Reacher finds himself overcoming evil in the most interesting situations. He is always is successful in overcoming his battles and challenges but Child's great craft is how he has Reacher achieve his goals in solving the mysteries.
So with this one we have Reacher just enjoying a cup of coffee in Manhattan then he is questioned the next day on what he witnessed. Supposedly a car that had driven away from where he was is tied in with a kidnapping of Edward Lane's wife Kate and step-daughter Jade and it had money for the ransom. What also was strange is that his first wife had also been kidnapped in the past so was Lane involved? The previous wife ended up being murdered. But Lane turns to Reacher this time to hopefully get this wife and step-daughter back alive. Reacher is left questioning the truth of it all and wants to get down to the bottom of it all.
This is a book you don't want to miss. Like I said in the opening paragraph, Jack Reacher is a great character. He owns nothing and in having nothing, he seems to be a man who has everything.
Good Thriller August 18, 2008
J.Flood (Dublin,Ireland)
In this novel, Jack Reacher is on the case of a kidnapped mother and daughter. The action swings from New York to rural England. The first time, to the best of my knowledge, that a Jack reacher novel has not been set entirely in the USA.
I felt the storyline was good, throughout, and I was hooked from the start. There was always something at the end of each chapter, that would make me want to keep on reading. The characters in it were interesting, too. Having said that, there are better Jack reacher novels out there, but, this one is still very good and certainly worth a read.
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