Comments on: Book Review – Nothing to Lose by Lee Child

By: Phyl

Phyl — Fri, 08 Jan 2010 18:47:42 +0000

Hee! That’s exactly how it happened. The book just sort of…GROWS on you, doesn’t it?

By: Susan Helene Gottfried

Susan Helene Gottfried — Fri, 08 Jan 2010 18:36:24 +0000

I had the same reaction to my first Jack Reacher. By the time I got done with it, I couldn’t wait for more. Stupid TBR’s keeping me from letting that happen, though…

By: Phyl

Phyl — Wed, 06 Jan 2010 20:31:21 +0000

Well hi there! Welcome!

You know, I wondered if Lee Child was British! (I hadn’t read his bio, I was in such a hurry to finish the review itself.) I thought so, and then thought, “Nah, he couldn’t be.” Heehee!

I love the brawling calculations Reacher makes, by the way. Sort of like, “Six against one. Hardly fair for the six.” *cackle*

And yes — I do want to read more now. Darnit.

By: Ken Armstrong

Ken Armstrong — Wed, 06 Jan 2010 20:15:33 +0000

Super. I love the idea of Reacher as a symbol of America itself. Even more fun when we consider than the guy who writes him is British.

I think we get a little more of the character from book-to-book and that works well but the character regularly slips into superhuman feats of mathematical ability, deduction and, of course, brawling which prevents him from ever feeling completely ‘true’.

Read another one sometime, you know you want to.