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Summary: You got to read it -- Swagger in his element
Review: Hunter always made reference to Fenn and Swagger in Vietnam, but you get the real deal in the first part of this book. Great techno-speak about sniping and rifles. The vietnam section offers some good background for Point of Impact (whcih I still feel is the best Swagger book). This is a definite Hunter best-seller. Swagger in his element in Vietnam. The second half of the book pulls a plot no one would think of. This is a book you read all at once..especially after the introduciton -- which kicks some serious you-know-what. I'm just waiting for another Hunter novel. Swagger or no Swagger, I'm sure he will write a book I'll like.
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Summary: Too much sniping is NOT a good thing...
Review: Stephen Hunter's attempt to keep the hero worship of Bob the Nailer going is tired and overblown. Hunter manufactured outlandish plot devices in this book in a vain effort to maintain interest. Black Light and Point of Impact were taut, credible, and compelling, but A Time to Hunt was just one book too many. Enough of sniping, Mr. Hunter - time to come up with something new!
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Summary: Too much sniping is NOT a good thing...
Review: I enjoyed Point of Impact and Black Light a great deal, but this book seemed to me to be an unnecessary continuation of the hero worship of Bob Lee Swagger. The author has run out of fresh ideas, and his plot devices have become absurd and extreme. I was left wishing that I had stopped reading this "series" with Black Light, a very good book.
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Summary: Too much gun stuff, too little plot development
Review: I like Hunter's writing and I think I'd like Hunter, who seems like a thoughtful sort and is quite a good writer for this genre.But someone (maybe editor Esther Newberg?) caught Tom Clancy disease in this one. Hunter's far too good to fall into that trap, but he does. There's far too much technobabble, too many boring discussions of calibers and gun sights, and most of all, too much stalking through the jungles and the mountains. Too bad, because the plotline is good and the insight into the hangover from Vietnam is right on. But developing the plot, which hangs together from 1971 to 1997 would be far better than spending half the book on snipers stalking others and themselves. Maybe Hunter has ended the Swagger saga and has something new in mind. If so, I'll be there. But please, in English not in calibers.
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Summary: Most Gripping Novel I Have Ever Read!
Review: The sleeves of books often talk about "not being able to put this book down". Books rarely live up to the hype. This one does. Stephan Hunter is the best "thriller" author on the planet. This is his best work.
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Summary: No good for high blood pressured guys
Review: The second part is top-notched action thriller, so intensive that might drive a guy with hypertension problem even worse. "Time to Hunt" is another version of James Thayer's "White Star" that also drove me nuts to finish it in one sitting. Readers who enjoyed "Point of Impact", "Time to Hunt"("Black Light" was also pretty good, but not as good the aforementioned two, while "Dirty White Boys" was not Very good, but a must-read for readers to complete the Swagger Saga), should check out from Amazon.com for "White Star" too. Then, the two most exciting American snipers together with their two fantastic Russian Nemesis and their adventures would make your summer98 an unforgetable one.
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Summary: Hunter gave himself and us a full perfect circle
Review: very nicely done this time, Mr. Hunter. Just finished this one in one sitting. There is only one small glitch that made it a bit unbelievable, the CIA turn-coat guy and all his sidekicks turning out to be all Soviet/Russia folks in the end? Wow, totally blew out of water, man. Anyway, except this too dramatic twist, these four-book "Bob The Nailer" series are just like four bottles of Burgandy, man, all primed from the vintage years and best of all, Mr. Hunter's writing also runs cooler like a chilled Chablis, pure, transparent, and clear-cut. Love it, and just wish someday there would be an anthology collecting all these four books in one binding.
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Summary: lacks depth, lots of implausible happenings
Review: This wasn't up to his Point of Impact & Dirty White Boys. Like he talks to Julie in Idaho and (surprise, surprise) when he calls her back with info about the bad guy, the line is dead. Come on. I'm not done yet, but too many things are stretched way too thin.
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Summary: More great stuff from Hunter
Review: I got hooked when I picked up my first Swagger book by mistake and have now back-read the whole Hunter catalog. What a storyteller. I usually read a few pages around bedtime but was up until 2:00 am the night I finished it. The ending was great. I hope when they start making Swagger movies they start here and work back. How 'bout Tommy Lee Jones. This is also the best look at Viet Nam I have seen to date.
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Summary: Bob the Nailer does the job again
Review: Hunter continues the mostly unbelievable and stereotyped adventures of Bob Lee Swagger in this yarn, which is far too ambitious in tying together Vietnam, Communist conspirators, and the peace movement. That said, Bob Lee is a compelling character, if inconsistent from book to book, and Hunter does a fine job of setting up the suspense as well as writing dead-on dialogue. In this case, the denouement is an anticlimax, so I must rate it considerably lower than Point of Impact, but higher than the far-fetched Black Light.
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