The Winner

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Summary: Good enough to keep the pages turning
Review: The book felt quite disjointed. The reasons behind LuAnn Tyler's return to the US weren't clear at all. Even the key characters weren't given enough depth, even though Baldacci tried somewhat with Jackson. However, it was enough to while away the hours.

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Summary: 600 pages of non-stop excitement and great writing
Review: Alot of people write in saying that the characters aren't believable. They definitely aren't. But just like a movie, I want to leave my brain at the door and let the words take my mind on a vacation to anyplace but reality. David Baldacci has created likeable characters and a suspenseful, exciting story. It was 620 pages long and I was begging for it not to end. I highly recommend this book to anyone who, like me, want to sink into someone else's world.

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Summary: Entertaining, but not classic.
Review: I was interested & impressed as the plot progressed to endow the protagonist (who was endowed with all but $$$, it seems) with her lottery winnings, but from there the book digressed into a TV movie. I did find the idea of rigging the lottery, and the author's thematic comments concerning the ethics of a govt. that promotes it to be sound. I expected more from the characters: must all women be big chested & shapely? And saved by a former CIA agent? Was there a publisher's deadline? The only excuse to ruin an initially decent plot line.Entertaining, but by far not a literary, or celluloid, classic.

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Summary: Fast Pased
Review: Similer to a Sidney Sheldon story, I had a hard time putting down, very easy to read. Simple plot easy to follow

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Summary: Too unrealistic
Review: The villian was way to unrealistic and the plot didn't have very much depth. I was very disappointed. Too sum up my feelings, "Don't waste your time!"

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Summary: THE BOOK WAS "COMMITTED TO EXCELLENCY"
Review: THE OVERALL STATEGY WAS OUTSTANDING, EXCELLENC PERFORMACNCES FROM ALL CHARACTERS. IT WAS HARD TO PUT THE BOOK DOWN. I THOUGHT I WAS LuAnn. PLEASE!!!!!!!! LET THERE BE A MOVIE. HOPE DAVID BALDACCI COMES OUT WITH A PART II TO THIS BOOK.

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Summary: This is on the Bestseller list?????
Review: I would have given this book great reviews if someone had told me it was written by an eighth-grade adolescent. I purchased this book before getting on an airplane and found myself so bored, I began reading the emergency card in the back of the seat to stay awake! The plot had more holes in it than swiss cheese. One man controlling billions of dollars, yet has enough time to work a job at the company that cleans the balls for the lottery machine, appear at different locations throughout the world on a moment's notice, and is able to control covert political operations in third world countries. I'm writing to the publisher to get my money back.

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Summary: I certainly was not disappointed with this one. Great book!
Review: Ever since I read "Absolute Power", I became an instant fan of David Baldacci. But having read this book made me admire him more. I love the book because it had a very unique story, interesting characters and a lot of action.. ....made me feel like I was watching a movie (well, that's how I feel everytime I read a Baldacci novel). I sure do hope David would come out with more.

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Summary: Predictable and tedious but I read it anyway
Review: This was my first Balducci book. Had to read it so as not to disappoint my daughter who gave it to me for Christmas. As compared to Clancy, Forsyth, Follett, Grisham, Ludlum and others, well what can I say? If the "The Winner" is typical work from this author, then perhaps he should take more lessons from the established mystery writers. There was not one 'Jackson' character that I didn't pick up on immediately. Didn't anybody tell this guy that revolvers don't have safeties on them or that shotguns don't shoot bullets or that hiding a .44 magnum in a jacket pocket is about as realistic as hiding a gallon of milk in one? Predictable and tedious, but I read it.

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Summary: COULD NOT PUT IT DOWN, GREAT BOOK
Review: This author, is a strong contender to take over Grisham. He is a realist, but you hang on every page.