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Nothing to Lose (Jack Reacher, No. 12)
by Lee Child
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Edition: Hardcover
Publication Date: June 03, 2008
Publisher: Delacorte Press
ISBN: 0385340567
Amazon.com Sales Rank: 2191
Average Customer Rating: 
List price: $27.00
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 Boo-Hoo, Jack Reacher doesn't share your views on Iraq, December 1, 2008
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This is a standard Lee Child/Jack Reacher novel, and in that sense, it's pure action, suspense and thrills. I'm writing this review primarily to help counter the OBVIOUS attempts to sabotage the book by hard-right zealots who just can't believe an author has the gall to have his hero not support the phony war in Iraq. The people tossing down these one-star reviews not only need a reality check; they need to understand what books are for. Period. Go Lee!
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Stunning -- again, November 27, 2008
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Another triumph. Dark, gripping, sinister, nightmarish . . . . it reminds me of the best Michael Innes. The plot threads are complex and subtle -- you have no idea what's happening, and often, in otherwise excellent thrillers you guess what's going on. Here, I had no inkling. Oh, man, I wish I could write like that.
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 Deep Despair, November 25, 2008
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I have enjoyed other of Child's Reacher stories but this one I should have missed. First we go to Hope and then to Despair and Reacher keeps going back to Despair, the town. In this story Reachers keeps fighting with the poor miserable inhabitants of this town and it is just overkill and Reacher comes off as more of a thug. There are absolutely no surprises in this book except for how ill-conceived it is. The Reacher character works better when he is up against tough characters, not weak ones. The ending to me was just a, "Huh"? Why he detonates a Depleted Uraniun/TNT mega-bomb makes no sense at all. Maybe after 10 years of wandering Reacher needs a break.
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Disappointing, but Jack Reacher is still a wonderful character!, November 25, 2008
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Jack Reacher is truly a wonderful character, but this book loses touch with him. The ending is hurried and struck me as contrived, rather than polished, which is the norm for Lee Childs.
I'm sure it's very difficult to create new and interesting material repeatedly, but this character deserves the extra effort. As an idea, why not try bringing the character full circle with a reason and desire to stop drifting and become involved in a current real-life military or geopolitical situation - maybe working with something like Blackwater or the like? Thanks for one of the more interesting and enduring characters around! Please try again - great reads until this one - all other Reacher books are worth every minute and dime spent on them!
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 Less than satisfying!, November 19, 2008
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I am a big fan of Lee Child's books. They are usually fast moving and interesting. This title is a tad different. It was easy to put down and in fairness, it was also easy to pick back up and get on with. However...it struck me that Child wrote this book without quite know the direction it would take. The end seemed to me to be a tidy tying up of many loose ends, most of which were un-satisfying in their conclusion. A big disappointment!
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