Jack Reacher - any good?
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Davey S2 said:
Still working my way through the Covert Action series by Ross Sidor which are very good
1. Weapons Grade (2019)
2. Target Viper (2020)
3. Subversive Action (2020)
4. Rogue State (2020)
5. Gray Zone (2022)
Centered around a character called Avery who is a private military contractor who get assigned by the CIA.
Quite military based but loads of action so if you like books like the Victor the Assassin and Orphan X series then I'd highly recommend.
Just finished these. Great series of books! 1. Weapons Grade (2019)
2. Target Viper (2020)
3. Subversive Action (2020)
4. Rogue State (2020)
5. Gray Zone (2022)
Centered around a character called Avery who is a private military contractor who get assigned by the CIA.
Quite military based but loads of action so if you like books like the Victor the Assassin and Orphan X series then I'd highly recommend.
surveyor said:
The prices of the kindle books has increased significantly over the past year or so. They're not far off the price of new paperbacks. I've got a couple of book series that I started, used to read two or three books a month, now given up on them as it's too expensive.nordboy said:
surveyor said:
The prices of the kindle books has increased significantly over the past year or so. They're not far off the price of new paperbacks. I've got a couple of book series that I started, used to read two or three books a month, now given up on them as it's too expensive.
Blue One said:
I have to say having just finished the latest Reacher novel that it feels like a GCSE student’s attempt at an action novel. Lee is Child-like in his writing, whereas Andrew is childlike…
For the first time ever I borrowed it from the Library instead of buying it.Not for the first time I found it tedious and amateur (not in a sense of amateur being a virtue) and am mighty pleased not to have it wasting shelf space in my own library.
I have reached the end of my journey with Reacher and will not miss the ride in future.
perdu said:
Not for the first time I found it tedious and amateur (not in a sense of amateur being a virtue) and am mighty pleased not to have it wasting shelf space in my own library.
I thought this with his last few books, the "endings" seemed to have been written by an 8 year old and got progressively worse.Monkeylegend said:
perdu said:
Not for the first time I found it tedious and amateur (not in a sense of amateur being a virtue) and am mighty pleased not to have it wasting shelf space in my own library.
I thought this with his last few books, the "endings" seemed to have been written by an 8 year old and got progressively worse.I used to consume the Jack Reacher books voraciously, and was on board from the second book, I think, going back to catch up with the first one. With my birthday in November it was an easy present for my wife to throw at me, with most of the copies on my shelf being hardbacks. Now I find myself with at least four unread Reacher novels on my shelves, and my wife stopped buying them for me. I don't think I even have the last two. To be fair I've not read any other fiction books since I stopped picking Reacher up, so it's not just the Lee Child effect. I keep promising I'll give at least the owned but unread books another try but I never feel inspired. The last thing I read was a paperback copy of the assorted Jack Reacher short stories I picked up for pennies in a charity shop, and then I only got about half way through. I think the only thing that could inspire me to pick up with reading books again right now would be re-reading Robert Mason's Chickenhawk, but my son still has my copy of that...
Fred Bump here.
Just finished No Plan B. Silly plot but we've had that before. However, Reacher has become ridiculously unstoppable and unnecessarily violent - there's a scene where he despatches one of the bad guys in a particularly gruesome fashion, where the old Reacher would have turned him over to the authorities. Also Child frere seems to forget a couple of things, he mentions early on that the female lead has a black belt in something but unlike Chekhov's Gun, it never gets fired. And she has a suitcase at one point despite joining Reacher's journey on a whim.
Just finished No Plan B. Silly plot but we've had that before. However, Reacher has become ridiculously unstoppable and unnecessarily violent - there's a scene where he despatches one of the bad guys in a particularly gruesome fashion, where the old Reacher would have turned him over to the authorities. Also Child frere seems to forget a couple of things, he mentions early on that the female lead has a black belt in something but unlike Chekhov's Gun, it never gets fired. And she has a suitcase at one point despite joining Reacher's journey on a whim.
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