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Summary: Last Man Standing -- UGH!
Review: Baldacci at his absolute worst. This is the kind of book that is hard to get into, boring in the middle and toward the end makes you wonder why you didn`t watch reruns of "The Gong Show" rather than wasting you time!!
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Summary: A Good Book Turned Mediocre
Review: I must admit that I for the most part enjoyed reading this book while recently on vacation. It is a long book with well developed characters that puts together an interesting and suspense filled mystery plot. Then, as the mysteries and riddles of the story begin to be resolved ... you become dissatisfied by how weak the resolution to the story ends up being. The story becomes weaker and weaker, and more and more unbelievable with every page beyond the midway point. By the end - you are sorely disapointed. SPOLIER ALERT - It would seem like David Baldacci just got bored of writing, since there is no coherent ending to the story. The book just ... finished, in what would appear to be the midway point to a longer story. Not recommended.
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Summary: An Action packed suspense thriller
Review: David Baldacci's Last Man Standing, is in short, a "thriller among thrillers."This is the first Baldacci work I have read. I loved seeing Absolute Power in which Clint Eastwood starred & I had heard about The Simple Truth, but Last Man Standing is the first Baldacci I have got my hands on, & now I regret not having read the author's previous works. Last Man Standing features FBI Agent, Web London, a hardened veteran & the point-man of a hostage rescue team, with zero failures to his name. When one routine operation (if one can call any operation routine)goes amok, killing all his friends, his team - leaving London the sole survivor, he has a hard time coping with the distress of the widows of his friends, & his tarnished reputation. At first it seems to be a miraculous escape, but soon events turn in such a way that anyone & everyone connected with Web is being killed & he finds himself the center of suspicion. With the help of psychiatrist Dr. Claire Daniels, London tries to rebuild his life & find the real killer. What follows is a game of matching wits, with the killer always just one step ahead, culminating in not just a thrilling finish but also a chilling finish. Last Man Standing, is a techno-thriller minus the jargon; it is an adventure, a fantastic psychological thriller, & Baldacci has convincingly combined the elements of all these sub-genres in an action-packed book. Though not fast paced, the action is thick & furious. London is a real fallible hero, similar to the protagonists in many of Frederick Forsyth novels, which makes the character & the story totally believable. Web London has many features of a series character, & I wouldn't be surprised to catch him in any future Baldacci novels. The book also has all the elements of a blockbuster movie, & personally, I would love seeing Bruce Willis in the role of Web London. I enjoyed this punching chiller-thriller.
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Summary: Unfortunately Long and Boring
Review: I have read all of Baldacci's books and was incredibly disappointed by this latest novel. The book was choppy, did not flow well, and was incredibly too contrived. I have never read a book where everyone was bad in one way or another and everyone had something to do with it. There are no good characters, I did not even like Web London very much. The only character I enjoyed was Romano and unfortunately we did not see enough of him. The 200 or so pages in the middle of the book were slow moving and uninspired; just filler. The scenes on the horse ranch were boring and I found that I had to force myself to finish the book, expecting some major surprise. Unfortunately, no major surprise came. The main bad guy is too predictable and you figure him out when he is first introduced.
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Summary: Recommended -- But Not To Everyone!
Review: If you a person who enjoys a thriller primarily for its suspense and excitement, Last Man Standing will have the pages flying through your fingertips. While the plot is pretty farfetched and strains credibility, it will most likely hold your interest. However, if strong, believable characters are more, or at least as, important to you as suspense and lots of action when choosing a thriller, then I think you'll feel (as I do) feel that Last Man Standing is entertaining and enjoyable but not fully satisfying. Although it didn't bother me as much as many other reviewers, the "good guy" characters --particularly Web London, the main character-- are too "super hero-ish." Further, Baldacci's characters in general are two-dimensional at best. Despite these flaws, I found Last Man Standing to be a fast-paced an entertaining read; and a book that I think you might enjoy when you're in the mood to read a book to purely escape from reality.
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Summary: Bummer
Review: I can't believe this is the same guy that wrote 'Saving Faith'. It is probably the worst book I've read in ten years. It is so convoluted not to mention totally improbable, that I got to the place where I didn't even care how it turns out.
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Summary: FABULOUS THRILLER!
Review: For all of those who love FBI and enforcement agency books, you can't find a better one than Baldacci's LAST MAN STANDING. The main character, Web London, is truly a web of mystery even as he attempts to solve the ambush of his fellow Hostage Rescue Team members. He's the only one left -- the last man standing. He froze during the mission. His quest for the why of that leads him to a new psychiatrist. The revelations there are astounding. The mystery is tricky and wonderful. The suspense never lets up for Web, the undercover agent, Cove, and Kevin Westbrook, a street-wise kid who becomes a pawn in the deeply plotted story. The one bit of comic relief comes from Paulie Romano, a hot-head who's a lot more than he seems. This is the first David Baldacci I've read. I can't wait to read the others. His writing is wonderful, and this is a superb suspense novel.
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Summary: Hoping things would pick up
Review: He had my full attention at the start, but once the investigation started I kept hoping with each new chapter that the book was going to get better. The ending was good but the bulk of this book was just filler.
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Summary: Supremely Adequate - and no more
Review: Here we have Baldacci as he usually is - compelling, literate and surprising. This novel has all of those elements although it does plod along longer than it needs to and then feels rushed as it ties up loose ends at the end. Sadly, many writers suffer from the problem of creating interesting set ups that pale when the contrivance is explained. Grisshom was the first to do this and it seems he is not alone. There were many good bits here but much of the motivation, action and resolution was weak. That brings this book down to the level of pulp and no more than that.
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Summary: Entertaining Story held my interest until the end
Review: I thought overall that this was an interesting and well written book. The psychological intrigue was more interesting than the action storyline and there are some unpredictable twists coming at the end. I was entertained by this book.
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