The Destroyer: Prophet of Doom (Action/Adventure Series, 111)

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Summary: THE DARK DAYS ARE OVER!!!!!!!!
Review: After a miserable yearlong trek through the "hack executioner writer's swamp" the series is back with a vengenace! Remo and Chiun are themselves again! Great story! Great villains! One of the best since the days of Murphy and Sapir! I only wonder why GE didn't use this one instead of the junk that was the previous three entries?

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Summary: It's about time!
Review: After slogging through the last three so-called "Destroyer" novels I was delighted to find our magnificent heroes back in true form. The reader who said Remo and Smith weren't themselves is OUT OF HIS MIND! The characters are great again, the parody is subtle (the Ross Perot parody is gleefully nasty) and the villains are evil incarnate. I only wished for a more extended battle scene at the end of the book. Clearly the author(s?) knows his Remo mythology. I have read these books for almost three decades and found no differenece between this book and the greatest Destroyers of days gone by. Long live Sinanju!

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Summary: It's about time!
Review: After slogging through the last three so-called "Destroyer" novels I was delighted to find our magnificent heroes back in true form. The reader who said Remo and Smith weren't themselves is OUT OF HIS MIND! The characters are great again, the parody is subtle (the Ross Perot parody is gleefully nasty) and the villains are evil incarnate. I only wished for a more extended battle scene at the end of the book. Clearly the author(s?) knows his Remo mythology. I have read these books for almost three decades and found no differenece between this book and the greatest Destroyers of days gone by. Long live Sinanju!

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Summary: The streak of really, really bad books is broken!
Review: Finally, Chiun and Remo are back in form. Good characters, baddies you can really hate, and good action. No more super-spy Remo. Gone is the doddering, useless Chiun. Remo anc Chiun are their old selves, and all is good with Sinanju.

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Summary: The author needs to improve the wit and satire.
Review: Having enjoyed this series when I was much younger but not having read the last 40 or so installments, I was eager to reacquaint myself with the world of Sinanju. I was both pleased and disappointed. I was pleased to find Remo and Chiun bantering as always amid self-absorbed parodies of national political and cultural figures, but I was disappointed that the satire was not fresher and more pointed. I think the author needs to take a more sophisticated approach to the core material, understanding that the audience over the last 15 years has been exposed to modern-day events that are often more absurd than the best Destroyer parodies.

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Summary: Remo lives!
Review: I can't express how happy i was to see remo and chuin back the way they ought to be. The previous few issues in the series had me worried that they would join the ranks of the many souls they have vanquished in the Great Void. Not so! This book is great. I could not put it down.

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Summary: O why didn't I keep reading?
Review: I found this old destroyer issue by chance. I had stopped reading a few years back when the books got really bad. My only question is why didn't someone tell me they got good again!!!!! This was a very exciting read. Something about it just felt "right". Just like the old days. Now I will have to try to find the next issues.

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Summary: the house is pleased
Review: LO The pale piece of pigs ear that has chronicled the movements of the house of Sinanju, Has suffered the death of 1000 broken bones. The new writers beware of the night tigers in the shadows and keep the stories on track lest they suffer the same fate. Chuin the wise

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Summary: Remo lives!
Review: Ok, OK, OK. I guess this book is better than the last few, but I am still tired of finding inconsistencies in the books. Whomever Gold Eagle gets to write these books should not be allowed near a typwriter or word processor until they have read at least the first 100 books in the series so they have a clue about what is going on. I have not completed with the book, but over all I like it. The banter between Chiun and Remo has improved, but Smith isn't himself, Remo isn't himself, the writer thinks Chiun is the Master of Sinanju (and Remo isn't) rather than the reigning Master.... I could compile a list here, but why bother -- you'll see them for yourself.

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Summary: better, but a ways to go
Review: Ok, OK, OK. I guess this book is better than the last few, but I am still tired of finding inconsistencies in the books. Whomever Gold Eagle gets to write these books should not be allowed near a typwriter or word processor until they have read at least the first 100 books in the series so they have a clue about what is going on. I have not completed with the book, but over all I like it. The banter between Chiun and Remo has improved, but Smith isn't himself, Remo isn't himself, the writer thinks Chiun is the Master of Sinanju (and Remo isn't) rather than the reigning Master.... I could compile a list here, but why bother -- you'll see them for yourself.