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Summary: I like Griffin. His Protagonists are always heroes.
Review: I think I have read this series in paperback. He was writing under the pseudonym, Alex Baldwin. I was frustrated because he left me high and dry after the fourth book in the series. Maybe now he will finish the series.
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Summary: Excellent story about War
Review: I thought that the book was excellent. I have read the second series under Alex Baldwin, and I could not put the book down. I am looking for the third and fourth series in paperback. I usually read Tom Clancy, but Griffin not only had intrigue. He also had romance. I can not wait to get my hands on the other two books.
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Summary: Re-Cycled Pulp is Still Pulp
Review: I was very disappointed in this book. After having waited a couple of months for it, I found out that: a) it was a re-released book being sold at new hard-cover prices and b) the plot is so similar to his Argentina books. Finally, in so many of his books, I find myself rooting for the characters - i.e. McCoy, Pickering, Payne - but none of the characters herein are appealing. To sum up, a barely readable Griffin book.
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Summary: W.E.B Griffin is still the insomniac's dream
Review: If you are looking for non-fiction or classical literature, walk down another aisle. If you enjoyed the Hardy Boys (or Nancy Drew) as a kid, you will probably love "The Last Heroes" as another intriguing episode in the Griffin web.If you want a historical picture of World War II, read a history book. If you want a feel for the war and want someone with imagination to connect the illogical dots surrounding FDR, MacArthur, and Corregidor, then read this novel. Richard Canidy and Eddie Bitter bring the "Flying Tigers" close to home and Richard Canidy gets swept off on a James Bond-type adventure. From aerdahls to "bubbleheads" (submariners), W.E.B. puts the likely military psyche into an unlikely but entertaining romantic adventure of another lifetime.
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Summary: Iheard the 1st half on tape(4) tapes I need the last 1/2
Review: The first 4 tapes of the book were GREAT! Tell me how to get the last half? colemanfigg@earthlink.net
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Summary: Good read. Not his best but still hard to put down.
Review: The Last Heroes is classic W.E.B. Griffin. A good story combined with writing skills that set his stories apart from the norm. Mr. Griffin's knowledge of the military, O.S.S. and State Department in the months and days leading up to W.W.2 and the opening months of the war give this story the ring of the possible.Some of these heroes and villains and their plots may seem familiar from other Griffin books. No matter they still make a good story. Well worth the read. Problems. Large type and large type spacing to make this seem a larger book then it is. The real problem is that this book and the three others in this series were first published in 1985/1991 in paperback. Now Mr. Griffin's publisher chooses to bring them out again in hardcover as "new books". Why not have brought them out in a collected volume of the "Men at War" paper backs. Now the publisher is telling new readers of Mr. Griffin that these are new books and we must wait for the next installment book 2 "The Secret Warriors" when in fact it was first published in 1985. Despite the huckster approach of G. P. Putnam's Sons publisher this is still a good W. E. B. Griffin story. Read it in paperback if you can find it under the authorship of Alex Baldwin, one of Mr. Griffin's pen names or get this hardcover and wait for the next three or four installments of "The Men at War". What ever happened to those Marines in "The Corps"? I hope Mr. Griffin has not left them to die on some Pacific Island. Dennis Gray t. 415-922-2953 gray@sirius.com
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Summary: Boring, misleading, too long, & anticlimatic
Review: The last heroes is not what the back cover implies it is: a WWII action/spy book. It turns out to be the total opposite. A big bore. I agree with a previous reviewer's comments about too much intimate encounters of the main characters. Oh, and way too many characters' names to keep track of. 80% of them non-essential to plot. Affairs and adultery run amuck. The actual main mission doesn't start until around page 350 and last for about 20 pages. I also realize that setting up a mission of that sort requires a lot of preparatory work, but this was ridiculous. The book runs 384 pages and 75% of it is wasted on establishing the 2 first main characters absurd and imature personalites. As some might know, it a Men At War series of books, which I will not continue to follow. Save yourself some time and read something better and real, like To Hell And Back or Beyond Valor.
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Summary: Excellent
Review: THE LAST HEROES is the only war novel I've read since 1992 that can hold a candle to the epic WWII novel THE TRIUMPH AND THE GLORY. What a superlative book, it is Griffin's best by far!
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Summary: Boring, misleading, too long, & anticlimatic
Review: The Last Heroes' dust cover promises action, intrigue, war heroes, and a gripping story. Author W.E.B. Griffin used all of these literary commodities very sparingly. In fact, this novel dispenses itself according to the following formula: Dialogue. Travel. Dialogue. Sex. Travel. Dialogue. (Repeat X 5) 2 pages of wartime action. (Back to start.) This work of fiction was originally published "straight to paperback" and it reads like it. I would fully expect to find Fabio as the cover model, Navy uniform unbuttoned to the waist, seducing several women at once. Griffin seems almost obsessed with his characters' sex lives, as sexual encounters outnumber battle encounters somewhere around 12 scenes to 2. When his characters aren't actually HAVING sex, Griffin luridly describes how they're wishing they were. All sex aside, this book could have been reduced to about 20 pages of actual PLOT. The storyteller plods along, filling the pages with near useless, pointless (read: boring) fluff. Some might call this needless waste of words "character development", but I can summarize for you: The characters like dinner parties, they like to fly airplanes, and they have "itchy britches". I kid you not: our "heroes" don't even receive their first set of orders from the Navy until after page 100. The next plot turn is not revealed until page 266. Actual heroic action? It's on page 259-261 (Hardcover edition). Don't blink. You'll miss it. In all fairness, Griffin's dialogue is sometimes clever, and he occasionally displayed some witty repartee, which doubled The Last Heroes' star count. My recommendation to W.E.B. Griffin's fans: Stick to his other novels. My recommendation to those who would like to be W.E.B. Griffin's fans: Don't start here.
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Summary: Chronicle of Heroes or Lurid Romance Novel?
Review: The Last Heroes' dust cover promises action, intrigue, war heroes, and a gripping story. Author W.E.B. Griffin used all of these literary commodities very sparingly. In fact, this novel dispenses itself according to the following formula: Dialogue. Travel. Dialogue. Sex. Travel. Dialogue. (Repeat X 5) 2 pages of wartime action. (Back to start.) This work of fiction was originally published "straight to paperback" and it reads like it. I would fully expect to find Fabio as the cover model, Navy uniform unbuttoned to the waist, seducing several women at once. Griffin seems almost obsessed with his characters' sex lives, as sexual encounters outnumber battle encounters somewhere around 12 scenes to 2. When his characters aren't actually HAVING sex, Griffin luridly describes how they're wishing they were. All sex aside, this book could have been reduced to about 20 pages of actual PLOT. The storyteller plods along, filling the pages with near useless, pointless (read: boring) fluff. Some might call this needless waste of words "character development", but I can summarize for you: The characters like dinner parties, they like to fly airplanes, and they have "itchy britches". I kid you not: our "heroes" don't even receive their first set of orders from the Navy until after page 100. The next plot turn is not revealed until page 266. Actual heroic action? It's on page 259-261 (Hardcover edition). Don't blink. You'll miss it. In all fairness, Griffin's dialogue is sometimes clever, and he occasionally displayed some witty repartee, which doubled The Last Heroes' star count. My recommendation to W.E.B. Griffin's fans: Stick to his other novels. My recommendation to those who would like to be W.E.B. Griffin's fans: Don't start here.
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