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Summary: Hip hip...
Review: ...Hooray! A first class mystery! The plot is thrilling, but this is not to say it doesn't have its flaws: written in the first person, it sort of comes off as a daydream of Child's that made it to print. Also, Reacher is a bit too much of a superman (what can't he do?). Otherwise, the well-written, fast-paced, exciting novel is a surefire fun read. Child gives action and a mystery that offers a lot to literature.
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Summary: Excellent first novel
Review: Great start to the series (though I feel he has not plotted as well since). The perfect beach read - hardcore violence, excellent plot, geat twists and a main character made for the movies.
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Summary: Killing Floor Excellant Read
Review: Another compelling novel by Lee Child, with Jack Reacher as an everyday hero using his skills to the best use. This is the second book i have read of Mr Child's the first being Die Trying another outstanding read.
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Summary: worth reading
Review: A very enjoyable experience. While the story started a bit slow, it constantly wound tighter and tighter. The last two hundred pages were absolutely non- stop reading. The main character was very believable and interesting. This is definitely worth reading.
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Summary: A fine debut of a strong character.
Review: Ex-MP Jack Reacher has dropped out of society and is spending his days wandering the American South. All is well until he spots the town of Margrave, Georgia on a map. His brother had talked once about visiting Margrave, supposedly the town where legendary blues man Blind Blake was killed. That's when Jack makes the fateful decision to get off the bus and poke around.Lee Child's books had been recommended to me on several occasions prior to my actually reading one. After months of procrastinating I finally picked this up and was pleasantly surprised to find a real winner. "Killing Floor" is an excellent, suspenseful example of the corrupt town novel (done so well by Ross Thomas, among others), and Jack Reacher is a terrific character. (My only complaint would be that it's a little longer than it needs to be--if it had been pared down some, it would be even more gripping.) You'd never know from reading "Killing Floor" that the author is an Englishman. He has the flavors of America down pat. What a fine debut! I look forward to reading more from Mr. Child.
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Summary: Fabulous!
Review: I was pleasantly surprised by my enjoyment of this novel. Lee Child is an amazing new author- I love his writing style! I immediately went out & bought "Tripwire"- I already owned "Die Trying" and I plan to buy "Running Blind" as soon as it's in paperback. I am an avid reader and I can say that this book was written for intelligent people for the purpose of entertainment- if you're looking to find the meaning of life you won't find it here...If you're looking for a great vicarious getaway, buy this book!
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Summary: Dirty Harry/Jack goes to Georgia
Review: To borrow a television/movie simile - this book has much more A-Team/Dirty Harry/Die Hard in it than it has, say, McGyver, Murder She Wrote or Diagnosis Murder. It is definately not a cozy. With 55 reviews (and counting), I'll let others tell the plot. What I liked about this book was the snappy pace and the underlying concept of the crime. What I didn't like was primarily the guns and the gore. This is not a book for people with weak stomaches or those prone to nightmares. Likewise, I second the comments of others that there are a few too many convenient coincidences and more than a few unsubstantiated conclusions/deductions that are nagging, tho not fatal flaws. Bottom line: A good book for readers who like lots of action and good guys take out the bad guys violence. Not a great book for those who don't like gore or who do need logical sequences. (I think my husband, a hunter and former MP, who likes to get lost in a book, will enjoy this more than I did.)
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Summary: decent first effort
Review: Jack Reacher was an Army brat turned military policeman until the end of the Cold War brought on a peace dividend that included Pentagon downsizing. Now he's taking some time to drift around the United States, checking out the haunts of old time blues greats, before he decides what to do next. But the decision is made for him when he's arrested for murder in Margrave, Georgia. He quickly proves to the black, Boston-transplant, chief of detectives that he's not guilty and prepares to move on, until it turns out that the murder victim was Reacher's brother, Joe, a Treasury agent. Intent on revenge, Reacher starts digging, with the help of the Chief and a friendly woman police officer, and quickly uncovers a mammoth conspiracy as the corpses start piling up. Take equal parts In the Heat of the Night, The Postman Always Rings Twice, Point of Impact and Rambo, give them a good shake and you've pretty much got this interesting, though flawed, debut thriller by a British author. I saw flawed because the plot is simply driven by too many coincidences and epiphanies; Reacher makes so many intuitive leaps that it starts to become somewhat annoying. On the other hand, Reacher is a likable hero and Child is clearly trying to hit a home run with this modern noir. He started out in British television and his writing has a sort of cinematic quality to it, the book reads like a movie. I'll give him credit for a decent first effort and assume the subsequent installments will be even better. In fact, I've already bought the second book. GRADE: B-
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Summary: shrug
Review: I got about three quarters through the book and just couldn't go any further. How did this get rave reviews? It is simply awful. There is so much shrugging going on that it's amazing anyone got anything done. I began to think that maybe the water was contaminated and was causing all this involuntary shrugging. And his characters shrugged at the most gawd awful inappropriate times. Shrugging is usually used to show complacence, but they would react to the most DIRE situations with a simple shrug. Not just the hero, but EVERY PERSON in the book SHRUGGED. And aside from all that, the story was thin, thin, thin. And frankly, boring.
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Summary: Jack Reacher can have my number !
Review: I started with "Running Blind," Lee Child's third book, and finished it off in record time to jump back online to see what else Lee Child had written. The hero, Jack Reacher, was a military brat growing up, a military career man until the army downsized, and then became a drifter by choice. He's a one-man swat team correcting injustice as it finds him. In "Killing Floor" he just happens to get off the bus near the intersection of a small town in Georgia and after wandering on foot into the town of Margrave he is immediately arrested for a brutal murder which he obviously did not commit. He digs his way through several mysteries at one time including the identity of the murdered man. The suspense never lets up; there is a girl (a cop) that he loves but leaves with good romance and dialogue throughout. The only problem I had with the hero is that he arrives without any luggage and only occasionaly needs to buy a new outfit of clothes as he thows away what he has on at the time. He gives new meaning to traveling light. I'm going to quit writing now and start reading the next book..."Die Trying" I hope to see more of Jack Reacher after I have caught up with the next two.
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