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Summary: This one is a Winner
Review: Great book. Very much like 'Total Control' where it's riveting until the end. Baldacci's stories play out like a movie from the opening sentence.
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Summary: the winner
Review: Give the book one hundred pages and you will enjoy it. Good suspense with good characters.
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Summary: Unbelievably great
Review: This is my first Baldachi book and it's the best start anyone can wish for when you read a new writer. After reading this thriller I must run and read the other books. I read a lot of thriller books by many writers, but I wasn't pulled by a story like that for a long time. The story can be intersting, but the form of writing is the most important thing, and in Baldachi's case, the writing is superb. I recommend this book to anyone who loves good thriller, romance and drama.
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Summary: And the winner is....LuAnn
Review: This book was excellent, but u have to keep in mind that its just a book, but some of the things that this Jackson person did about this lottery was unbelieveable. LuAnn and Riggs I knew would fall in love. Characters were to good to be true. I was stumped wanting to know if Donovan and Jackson were the same person, somehow Ifelt they were but a point in the book I did figure out they were not. I'm looking forward to reading another of his books. Would definitely recommend this to someone bored and needs a lift and good read. Baldacci is surely a winner, when is the movie coming out. My actress pick forthe part of LuAnn would be Jessica Bullock, that played in Speed.
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Summary: A Great Read
Review: This is the first Baldacci book I read, after this I went on to read all the others. It was one of my all time favorites! I couldn't wait to get home from work to see what happened next. All of his books are great, I think this one is his best, a real page turner!
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Summary: It couldn't happen in America. Could it?
Review: Hmm. I think David Baldacci must be anti Lottery. Every single flaw with the whole idea of an idiot tax (opps.... sorry, lottery) is exposed in this story. It is a fun read and hard to put down, but that's typical of his books anyway. LuAnn Tyler is believable, but her nemisis is way out there from a believability point of view, unless he truely is the devil.
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Summary: 1st timer
Review: This is the first book I've read by David Baldacci, and all I can say is that it was awesome, just reading the back cover made me feel compelled to read it. It was a page-turner and I wanted to cry when I had to put it down so I could get school reading done. It's one of the best books I've ever read!
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Summary: classic Baldacci
Review: Very interesting book..as i have found all of Baldaccis books..Good characters with LuAnn, Charlie, Riggs and the villan, Jackson..well thought out schemes by both the good and bad..i did however feel it was kind of hard to believe that the villan was able to actually fool people with his array of disguises..was everybody 5 foot 10 in the book or what..sometimes the least obvious can be the dead give-away to the trained eye..and there were alot of trained eyes involved in this novel..i recommend it to anyone who likes a good murder mystery..
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Summary: A 500-page coincidence
Review: The plot of David Baldacci's third fast-paced novel, "The Winner," is pretty easy to follow: young, niave LuAnn Tyler, struggling to raise her daughter as best she can in poverty, agrees to "win" the national lottery which has been fixed by an evil mastermind, Jackson. Like his previous "winners," Jackson has hand picked LuAnn because of her situation, making his offer more difficult to refuse, but her acceptance comes with a heavy price: LuAnn is Jackson's pawn and must agree to do as Jackson commands, including never to return to the US upon winning and living in utter fear.Jackson, while a very interesting foe, is just too much to believe: He's a mastermind in chemistry and poisons, a regular Boris Karloff of disguse, and more stealthy than a ninja warrior. LuAnn Tyler is almost as unreal as she turns from uneducated single mom to killer millionaire in the span of ten years. At least she manages to keep her sense of humor and brash attitude throughout the story. Toss in a former FBI agent (now living under the witness protection program) as LuAnn's love interest and a former boxing pro turned bodyguard as the "uncle" to both LuAnn and her daughter and you have the makings of a very well-rounded cast. However, the novel is plagued by coincidence after coincidence from the beginning. Start with LuAnn's first boyfriend's murder, cementing her decision to accept Jackson's offer as she believes herself to be a wanted fellon, up to the climatic ending set against a cliff which just so happens to exsist on the backside of LuAnn's estate in Virginia...? Or there's the journalist that pieces the fixed lottery story together that also happen's to be Jackson's sister's boyfriend. Makes me kind of think that this is David Baldacci's only way to move a story along. In any case, "The Winner" isn't a complete loser as it moves along quickly and with decent dialogue, something most suspence novelists can barely pull off.
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Summary: Imagine If!
Review: This book was just awesome! It is the story of a down-on-her-luck woman from the South who is given the opportunity of a lifetime, become the next Lottery winner. All she has to do is buy a ticket and her winning numbers will be called! Unfortunately, there is a price. Baldacci does a great job with building the suspense in this work. It was the first I've read by him. Since, I've read two others and still felt this one was the best of the three. I would recommend this book to someone even if they are not a big reader. It seems to be a quick and easy read, and entertaining to boot.
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