Derek Lawrie
much preferred this to the first one, better character development , more interesting plot etc but it still retained the hard science fiction from the first book
Quite enjoyable thriller with Grisham showing that he has been on holiday to Bologna. Probably.
Interesting to read how he did it, but there isn't anything massively revelatory here, and, by his own admission, he isn't the best writer ever.
Still it's a proven system as he has actually done it himself.
As usual its an above standard Reacher novel, I've yet to read a duff one (some are a bit more average).
As someone else has noted it is quite odd that Jack refers to his watch constantly in this book yet in previous novels he just knows what time time it is from his internal clock. Doesn't detract from the book though.
I've got to get past the one thats being currently filmed so the whole Reacher series isn't ruined for me by Tom Cruise.
Mildly useful, unfortunately eclipsed by the majority of Moodle 2, still some of it was quite useful where we are still using 1.9. Having said that it's not terrifically well written or thought out, several times I had to refer to the completed code that was provided to see where new material was supposed to actually go!
One of, possibly the, best of the Rebus novels I've read so far. I don't know if it's the integration of all of the Bible John stuff or how much the Rebus character breaks down during the case that makes it so good.
If you enjoy any of the Rebus books then you will definitely like this one.
Loved it, if you were raised in the 80's and were into videogames and pop culture then the likelihood is that you will love it too.
Excellent reference, maybe could do with some more discussion, but invaluable to Moodle developers nonetheless.
Would of given a perfect rating, but it did have a tendency to go on a bit and man a few unnecessary side stories in. Still the story itself was actually pretty good and completely not what I was expecting, thought it was going to be a much more straight forward police procedural. Would make a good film if it was edited down a bit.
Absolutely fantastic, think this may be the best of the Culture novels that I have read so far. Given what's happened today it'll be remembered all the more fondly.
you can see what the latter books would become in this early one. The Jewish basketball star, successful partner, the quick referential humour etc. but it just doesn't work as well as the later books, or even any of the early Myron Bolitar ones.
Enjoyable, just not great.
It's just as much about the loss of a parent as it is about time-travel. Having said that the science fiction elements are very well crafted.
Three stars is probably a bit generous, Reacher hardly gets anything to do and then it's done. Still I like Child's style so it was a pleasant enough 20 minutes.
Still not sure what incest-like legs are, that was used twice in this one, but you know I paid 99p for the whole thing so can't really complain.
Enjoyable zombie stuff, it's quite light, but there are a couple of darker moments near the end, I'll definitely read the next one at least.
I remember being into Laymon's work back in the late 80s, had this one just sat there since it was published and picked it up on a whim, maybe shouldn't have bothered.
Large elements of the plot (well all really) are so massively implausible that I almost couldn't believe that's what was actually happening. It's easy enough to read without being simplistic, but his views on women and sex in general, whilst dated for the time feel very out of date now.
I realise this was published after his death, and there is something about this that feels like it wasn't completely finished. About halfway through the chapters seemed to drop to 1 or 2 pages more often than not, almost like they hadn't been fleshed out?
Anyway, I'd only bother with this if you are a Laymon completist.
Unlike Pünd I have never been very good at solving crosswords, puzzles etc. and I have to admit that I did laugh out loud when the main one in this book was revealed. You could say I'm Atticus Pünd
I'll be quite interested if the BBC version of his keeps that particular twist in there.
Not as bad or overlong as many people on here would have you believe, but it's also not King seniors best, nor by any means his worst.
Brilliant, like all of the best King it's not really about the Kennedy assassination and it's all the better for it. The resolution of the whole time-travel aspect I didn't love, what actually happened with the time travel I did really like.
I thought this was the best King I'd read in a long while, but then I think what are the other recent ones, and Mr. Mercedes was pretty darn good (it's 2 sequels were good but not great), and 11/22/63 was excellent as well. So just another really good Stephen King book then.
i don't doubt for a minute that the music industry is portrayed pretty accurately in this book, at least as it was in the 90s. Yes it all goes too far too be properly realistic, in a proper American Psycho way, it's quite like that book to be honest, just set a decade later and in a different industry. It'll be quite interesting to see how they make it into a film.