Echo Burning (Jack Reacher, No. 5) by Lee Child
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Book Reviews of Echo Burning (Jack Reacher, No. 5)
Book Review: doesn't deserve to be part of the jack reacher series
Summary: 2 Stars
I'm working my way through the entire Jack Reacher series and am a huge fan. This one, however, was uninspired.
I hate to admit it, but I think the problem was that it was too down to earth. While I can appreciate the sentiment, I like my Jack Reacher reading more in the realm of fantasy. The imperfect characters made them unlikeable. The action was also a bit lacking. Jack himself was a bit hard to take at times. Finally, the Bruce Banner ending sealed the deal - I'd recommend skipping this one.
Book Review: Sloppy research, no mystery
Summary: 2 Stars
I have to say S. Temerlin practically wrote my review for me (see his of 11/12/2006). Child's knowledge of firearms is not even second-hand. Also, the tactics (it pains me to apply the term) Reacher used to defeat the bad guys were sloppy, self-defeating, and would have gotten him and Alice killed except that the "professional" killers were even more stupid than Reacher. His wrap up of the major bad guy was from an old Perry Mason TV show. This was my second, and last, Child book.Book Review: Northeastern Bigotry
Summary: 1 Stars
This novel is a collection of shallow bigotries of someone ignorant of what he writes. It takes place in Texas. All the main Texan characters are white and wealthy poorly educated hateful people. A cameo appearance by a family of migrant farmworkers contrasts them as heroic and well educated as they quote European philosophers. Besides the main hero, the other main protagonist is a Jewish Lesbian Vegetarian Harvard Law graduate there to "give back" and save the underpriveledged from their white masters. There are constant and tedious descriptions of how much the author doesn't like the Texas climate. For someone who writes about a hero who is a firearms expert from the military, this author makes some of the most absurd technical mistakes I have ever read. He even describes the primer of a cartridge as the "firing pin". I doubt he has even touched a gun in his life. This book is so full of obnoxious and insulting cliches I'm offended I read it. I only finished it because it was the only book I had with me on a hunting trip, which is ironic as this protagonist, who brutalizes or kills anyone who offends his sensibilities, thinks of himself as pure because he doesn't indulge in such an evil activity as hunting for food.