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BRICK OUTHOUSE: A Jack Reacher novel

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Jawsus-son Starship

13:29 / 30.04.09

Actually, he does go into a starbucks, but he orders a big house blend. He likes it. He makes some suits pay for it.

I won't say, as it's an integral part of the story.

20:39 / 03.05.09

I just read Nothing To Lose, and although it was kind of all right, it was really charmless. Reacher didn't really have any of the great epiphanies of childlike reasoning or meandering tangents that make him such a fun character. I did like the way he kept assessing fights in terms of muscle mass ratios - like when he realises he has to fight six guys, not four, he weighs this up as 250:800lb to 250:1200. But overall it was nothing special, and the ending was typically weak and pat.

The really striking thing about this book, though, is how many mistakes he makes. Didn't we talk about this somewhere in this thread, that he seems never to get anything at all wrong? In this one he is wrong all over the place, and repeatedly gets outsmarted by the villains. Luckily he can punch out anything short of 20 tons of angry humanity, though.

06:15 / 04.05.09

In this one he is wrong all over the place, and repeatedly gets outsmarted by the villains. Luckily he can punch out anything short of 20 tons of angry humanity, though.

I've just finished that'n too. You're absolutely right, he spends much of his time sneaking into the town of Despair and then having to fight or bluff his way back out when someone catches him. Possibly the funniest part is the end result of his plane ride with the main villain.

He starts a lot of fires I've noticed. In the ones I've read anyway which is Killing Floor, The Hard Way, and now Nothing To Lose. In both Killing Floor and NTL he torches the police station.

Whisky Priestess

14:04 / 04.05.09

He's a firestarter. Blistered firestarter.

17:46 / 17.01.13

Who doesn't like Reacher I've been reading his books for about a year off and on and I truly love them. I can't put 1 down once I get going. I recently bought a Kindle Fire at xmas for myself just so I can have all the Reacher books on 1 tablet. I have now read all but 5 of them and every time I finish one I delay buying and starting the next as I know there's only 5, then 4 so on so on. My current Reacher book is Bad Luck and Trouble it's pretty good so far. My fave though has to be Tripwire, the bad guy with the hook hand is a cool idea for a villain. The only bad thing is the fact that Child has used Tom Cruise of all actors to play the 6,5 250 pound of pure muscle meat axe that is Jack. Yea Right, in my opinion he would of been far better off with someone such as Sean Bean, although not as Hollywood as Cruise I think Child owed it to real Jack fans to at least get that right, I haven't seen the film but reading comments I've heard it doesn't contain any "Reacherisms" such as the plastic folding toothbrush and so on.

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