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Summary: Skip this book if you are a Destroyer Fan
Review: Any fan of the series knows certain things to be true about the two main characters, Remo and Chiun. This book takes those axioms and destroys them.
It, in one page, ignores and obliterates some of the key beliefs and history of the previous 109 books.
We need Warren Murphy back at the helm. The plot was sketchy, the characters shallow, and our hero, Remo, is now a cross between James Bond, Charlie Chan, and IBM's Big Blue.
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Summary: Not true to the series, full of mistakes.
Review: Any fan of the series knows certain things to be true about the two main characters, Remo and Chiun. This book takes those axioms and destroys them.
It, in one page, ignores and obliterates some of the key beliefs and history of the previous 109 books.
We need Warren Murphy back at the helm. The plot was sketchy, the characters shallow, and our hero, Remo, is now a cross between James Bond, Charlie Chan, and IBM's Big Blue.
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Summary: Wasn't as good as most, but wasn't as bad as others
Review: Many have panned this book as being one of the worst of the series, mainly due to a change in authorship where te author cut his teeth on the series and his stumblings were published as books. Having not read his earlier debacles, I found this book to be ... okay. An interesting plot, but not as much humor as Destroyer fans are accustomed to. The author, Mike Newton, has a better handle on the characters than I thought he would, given all the criticism, but still needs a lot of work if he plans to continue writing te series. Although I enjoyed this book, I do hope the future holds better for Remo and Chiun.
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Summary: The last of a three issue blunder in an otherwise excellent
Review: Mike Newton again attempts to change Remo's last name to Bolanas the Executioner guest stars in yet another Destroyer. Newton isalright in the Executioner, but THIS IS NOT THE EXECUTIONER! Reality will resume next issue when a more reliable author takes over ghosting reigns on the series. Keep this book along with 108 and 109 if you dared purchase them as classic examples of what NOT to do with the Destroyer.
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Summary: Skip this book if you are a Destroyer Fan
Review: Remo goes out at night looking for some people to beat up. Not the Master Assassin we have come to know and love. Remo is also making basic mistakes and Chiun wants to take him back to the beginning. The writer forgets that he is a Master now, not some beginner. He swims a whole 100 meters underwater, in earlier books it was miles, etc., etc., etc. Mistake after mistake as this non Destroyer author takes apart the basis of all of the characters in the book. You will read about roundhouse kicks and other basic Karate moves instead of Sinanju. Like books #108 and #109 somehow Remo has turned into a non weapon version of Mack Bolan. Not a book for Destroyer lovers, even Smith is not his usual self.
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Summary: It always had been about the relationship
Review: The two aspects of the Destroyer series that have brought me back without fail through 110 tales of their adventures are the relationship between Chiun and Remo and the irreverant manner with which current social issues and icons are dealt. This offering has diappointingly little of these two elements. As a result, it ranks as one of my least favorite. I can only hope (as does an addict looking for his next fix) that future tales bring back the Remo and Chiun I have come to love.
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Summary: a lesson to be learned
Review: this book, like the past three should serve as reminders to the loyal fans of the destroyer series, that we should never take the continuity and the writing for granted. we should ever be on guard in the future to prevent such tragedies from ever happening again. there is a lesson to be learned from all of this
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Summary: could not go lower than one star.
Review: This was a total waste of time. I found I had to force myself to finish it. Not worth the paper it was printed on.
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