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Summary: This title is the correct one The WINNER
Review: The first part of the book is interesting, how a man who can move the lottery numbers to win as he wants convince a poor young woman with a child to win. She was on a murder scene and ask Jackson to change her name and he agrees if she leaves the country and never comes back.To the second part I have many questions: why she returned to the US? Where does Jackson knew how to be more expert than a CIA agent? If Jackson was a person who kill anyone just for his convenience, why he didn't kill her when she returned?
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Summary: Great Thiller
Review: Baldacci did it again. He created a very interesting character that made you want to root for her. He kept you guessing on the supporting characters, where did there loyalty lie. Overall a good book and worthy of a read. I can see this comming to a theater near you!
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Summary: Complex as always, although not memorable
Review: While not the best baldacci novel I have read, The winner is still worth reading for those of you who have really enjoyed his books previously. The premise is that a young, uneducated woman in poverty is given the chance to win 100 million dollars if she will keep her mouth shut about how her winning this money comes about. She accepts and the story slowly lifts off from there. Like most good books, the story unravels slowly at first, the stakes raising towards a decent ending. I do not mean that to be negative to the plot, it is very interesting, but I had trouble even caring about the characters. It is a good read,though, and I reccommend it to fans of Baldacci but for those new to this author, try Total Control or The Simple Truth first.
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Summary: The Winner
Review: The Winner is a pure winner. I am an avid reader and "The Winner" kept me enthralled throughout the entire Novel. It never let up. Baldacci's writing is amazing for the reader. You actually look forward to getting home to continue the book and/or finish it. This book is pure 5 stars.
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Summary: Eh....
Review: This book was just so-so. It had an interesting premise but the bad, lowest-common denominator writing and shallow, one-dimentional characters sqandered a potentially decent story. The female lead could've been a real heroine if she wasn't such a figment of her male writer's fantasies. If you want to read a silly book and forget about it as soon as you put it down, this one's for you. Or, you could be a real-life winner and just skip this one altogether.
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Summary: His best pulse pounding best seller to date!!!
Review: Mr. Baldacci's sense of storytelling shines here throughout this great thriller. I simply could not put this down for a second. A-Tour_de-force! Undownputable!
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Summary: Money isn't everything
Review: In The Winner, David Baldacci's creepy master of disguise/homicidal maniac, Jackson, makes impoverished LuAnn Tyler an offer she can't afford to refuse. She wins $100 million in a fixed national lottery, and all she has to do is skip the country (forever) and let Jackson manage her winnings (while she lives off the substantial interest income) for 10 years before he gives it back. Needing to skip town and desirous of a different kind of a life for her infant daughter, LuAnn goes for it. Without giving too much away, we fast-forward 10 years and LuAnn has returned to the U.S. under another name and soon she's got a curious investigative journalist, the Feds and Jackson on her tail. The Winner is fast-moving, hooked me early and kept me interested throughout. I had to fight the urge to stay up all night reading a couple of times. I'm a big fan of Mr. Baldacci's books and this one is no exception. The protective, almost father-daughter relationship between LuAnn and Charlie, her bodyguard/confidant, is sweet. In contrast, Jackson is a real skin-crawler. There were quite a few occasions where I was wondering, is that really the character (man or woman), or has Jackson crawled into someone else's skin yet again?
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Summary: Dreadful writing, bad movie script
Review: This is a dreadfully-written book. While it's a bit of a page-turner, especially in the beginning, the characters are unbelievable and David Baldacci tells us too much without showing us. For example, near the end, when LuAnn wants to know if she's really talking to Lisa, we're told LuAnn asks her questions only she knows the answers to. Like what? That relationship is never explored. Lisa starts out as a baby and bam!, she comes back 10 years later as an undefined 10-year-old. Just as we are not at all privy to LuAnn's evolution into an educated, elegant person. We're just informed that it happened. Jackson is also such a freaky character, but Baldacci does not have the skill of really bringing him alive or telling us how he does all his impersonations. Once again, we're just supposed to believe he can mimic anyone's voice perfectly, even that of a 10-year-old girl. Suspension of disbelief is one thing, but the inability to deliver on characteristics you give a character is another.
The book also has its sexist moments and I don't think Baldacci should have female protagonists in his novels because he can't portray women well.
I think Baldacci had "movie script" in his mind the whole time he was writing "The Winner," and I don't think it was a very good movie he was envisioning.
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Summary: Who wants to be a millionnaire??
Review: Buy this book just for Jackson! If you are prepared to leave your common sense in the book shop, then i urge you to do so. Yes the premise is unlikely, yes Jackson is unlikely, Yes LuAnn's flawlessness is unlikely, yes yes yes yes yes, but isn't the whole idea of novels ESCAPISM?? Imagine a world where books reflected real life...exactly. This book achieves what most authors can only aspire to...it takes the desires of everyone (to be rich) and tears it to pieces. After reading "The Winner", for the first time in a long time i was content being an impoverished student. Buy it.
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Summary: too much stupidity
Review: First, the idea of a "fixed result". It's just an impossible thing to happen.
Second, the trilling effects were mainly caused by stupidities of LuAnn Tyler herself. This makes reader feels to be fooled by the author...
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