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Summary: the best book I've read in a long time
Review: This book was absolutely wonderful. I could not put it down. David Baldacci's words painted a very real picture of people and places. I felt I knew Lu Ann and Charlie. Especially nice was Lu Ann's relationship with her daughter, Lisa. I've read John Grisham and found his books very satisfying, but this was better. The book moved at a fast pace. The story was easy to follow and intriguing. I look forward to David Baldacci's next book.
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Summary: Stretches credibility beyond breaking point
Review: I appreciate that fiction has evolved to a point where credibility is not an essential requirement, but please, how hokey can it get.... This story disappointed me by its tacky method for fixing the lottery. It just sort of cast a dreary pall over the story, which was not unlike the '50's (?) TV show The Millionaire...poor girl gets money and runs...Not a good read.
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Summary: The best book I've read this summer
Review: "The Winner" has it all - fast paced, keeps you wondering what the next page will bring. Just the right amount of intrigue, surprise action, realistic characters & romance. This was my first Baldacci novel & it won't be my last - can't wait to read another.
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Summary: Is a winner? No, it's a champion...
Review: I think that this is one of most beautifoul books of the last years... Baldacci forever :)
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Summary: An Execellent Book, even in Condensed Form!
Review: I read the Reader's Digest version of this book, and I LOVED IT!! It had everything a reader of great writing could want! I highly reccomend this book to anyone who loves to read!
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Summary: If Hitchcock were alive he'd make this story into a movie.
Review: LuAnn Tyler is at the end of her rope and at the beginning of her life. Stuck in a rural town with no money, good looks, a new baby and a loser for a boyfriend she looks at the future with little hope of ever getting her child beyond her miserable life. Enter Mr. Jackson. A mysterious employer who is offering LuAnne the chance to get out. The chance to win the lottery of the month with earnings estimated at 100 million dollars. LuAnne walks away from the deal initially but must reconsider due to an event, which changes her life. She comes home to find her boyfriend dieing from a fatal stab wound and the perpetrator of the crime coming for her to avoid a witness. With her superior strength she wacks the perp to death, grabs her baby and runs like hell. Upon feeling like she will be brought up on charges of murder and seeing a crumy, nothing town in the review mirror, LuAnne calls Mr. Jackson for that offer of hundred million grand. The strings attached to the d! eal with Mr. Jackson make LuAnne look worse off than a Marionette with Satin holding the strings. She must leave the country and travel under an assumed name for 10 years and she must hand over all her winnings to Jackson. The money she has for those first ten years is distributed from Jackson to her under her assumed name. From this point the story will take you on it's own. The quick pace of this suspenseful story creates a fabulous read. Before this book I was reading Patricia Cornwell with somewhat moderate satisfaction. I now realize that David Baldacci provides wonderful storytelling with the emphasis on quickest and rapid movement of the story line. Rarely do we find his character betrayal moving away from the subject of the story. I'm not a person who wants the author to spend an extremely longtime on erroneous facts that will only help me if I pick up his or her next novel. In this book we find only one story. Fortunately for the reader it becomes the only! story we want to read. Please take my word and enjoy thi! s book. Thank you, Scotty Hamilton
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Summary: A perfect summer beach blanket read!
Review: Balducci's The Winner was very predictable but was so entertaining I read it in just one sunny day over this weekend. I can just see this as a blockbuster movie starring Bridget Fonda as LuAnn, the trailer-trash turned sophisticated, savvy globe-trotter who performs like Wonder Woman when cornered by the bad guys. Some of her dialogue feels more male than female, but the over-all effect of the story is truly engrossing. Cliches?, yes. But a fast, FUN read. The happy ending feels guaranteed even during flying knives and bullets - but the last page holds a surprise "slip of paper" that will make you cheer.
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Summary: Fast Paced Excitement
Review: The Winnwe is another one of Baldacci's page turners that you just won't want to put down for to long. I was a bit worried when I read the plot, it seemed so far-fetched that it was going to be hard to believe, but one I started reading this book was very believable. One of the things I liked the best about it was its statement about how the lottery system feeds on the poor, something that is often over looked by the amount of the winnings. I read this one in two sittings, I highly recomend it
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Summary: Easy too read excitement
Review: I enjoyed this book tremendously although Baldacci did overdo the relationship between mother and daughter in the first third of the book. That said I couldnt put it down and will eargerly await his next book. (In the meantime read Alan Folsom 'Day after Tommorrow' and await his second book 'Day of Confession')
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Summary: Baldacci never met a cliche he didn't use to death.
Review: Yawn. An interesting premise is beaten into a coma by an endless stream of cliched writing, "fight" scenes pulled straight from a sub-par episode of "Xena: Warrior Princess" and a super-villian who would make Keyser Soze look like a purse snatcher. Unbelievable, two-dimensional, predictable and boring. Plus, Baldacci's voluminous, sexist descriptions (there are dozens of them strewn throughout the book) of the main heroine's body would be offensive if they weren't so outrageously overblown (and I'm a guy).
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