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Jan 30, 2012

Inkbitten rated it:

Judged by a Cover: Exciting/ Done Already

The cover's exciting because it's kind of mysterious. Like, if you haven't read the back your kind of wondering what he's running from and what all the smoke is in the back round. But, I say it's done already because pratically all the books that are based on kidnaping or adeventure, the cover is someone running from something. I don't know... it may just be me.

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Aug 17, 2011

Heather rated it:

Charlie went to bed with a grin, staring at the phone number Beth had written on the back of his hand that afternoon at school. Charlie woke up beaten, burned and cut, strapped to a chair in a room filled with torture devices....a year later. What happened in that year? The police say Charlie killed his best friend, was tried and went to prison only to escape a few months into his sentence. A stranger with a familiar face says Charlie's a Homelander, an American terrorist recruited by Islamic ex More...

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Jul 25, 2011

Marya rated it:

"I don't know who these guys are, or what they want, but I'm going to stop them". Ok, so this quote is from the movie trailer of Abducted, but I think it really reflects the vibe of the first 50 pages of this book (which is all I could stomach). The main character is supposed to be some ass-kicking agent with top secret jobs and he's only 17 years old, though he's conveniently forgotten that. I thought it was annoying when every teen book I read is from a whiny self-described loser' More...

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Jul 23, 2011

Laura Beth rated it:

I, too, found this book on the shelf while waiting to be helped at the library. I was looking at the Gateway and Truman Award Nominee for 2011-2012 (a Missouri library thing). I saw this book, looked at the back, and thought it sounded interesting. I was hooked after the first chapter. I got it this afternoon around 2:30 and finished it at 11:45. It was all I could do not to get on GoodReads or Amazon to read about it!

The story is about Charlie West, a 17-year-old perfect academi More...

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Apr 29, 2011

Drew rated it:

The Last Thing I Remember is part of the Homelanders series. The story begins with the main character, Charlie West, waking up strapped to a chair in a locked room. He is hurt all over and a voice calls for his execution. Charlie tries to think of the last thing he can remember, when he was just a normal high-school kid. He remembers doing ordinary things, working on his homework, practicing karate, dreaming of becoming an air force pilot, and writing a girl's number on his hand. Unfortunately, More...

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Jan 19, 2011

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LAST REVIEW 1/19/11

This is one of my favorite book that i have read. This book is about a boy who gets taken over by some terorist, and he is not sure whats going on. This bhook goese every other chapter one weres hes at home and then two whats happing to him. This is a fiction. This smester i have read two non- fiction and the rest fiction. I never thought that i would read non fiction books because theyu did not intrest me. As i had to read a non fiction i found out that i like More...

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Feb 19, 2010

Austin rated it:

The Last Thing I Remember is about a boy named Charley one day wakes up to find himself tied up to a chair. He later finds out that a year has gone by since the last date he can remember.

Andrew Klavan is very serious in this book. There is basically no other emotion than pure stress. It sometimes is fine, but other times it feels as if the book needed a different emotion.

When Charley wakes up, a voice outside the door is telling people to kill him. With no idea why these More...

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Oct 31, 2009

Rachael rated it:

The last day Charlie West can remember was a perfectly normal day. He was a regular high school kid doing regular things like his schoolwork, practicing karate, chatting with his friends, and getting nervous around the girl of his dreams. He was a good kid who listened to his parents, prayed, treated girls with respect, and loved his country. But now, Charlie has just woken up in a living nightmare. He’s strapped to a chair and covered in his own blood and bruises. Someone outside his torture ch More...

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Oct 29, 2011

Brendan rated it:

Charlie West is not having a good day.
Sheesh. He wakes up this morning, bloody and bruised, strapped to a chair and surrounded by gory instruments of torture. Not to mention the lack of coffee.
Then he escapes from a prison-like building only to fall headfirst into a twelve-foot deep hole. What's with that, huh?
West is a strapping young gentleman. He gets good grades and he has a black belt in karate. And he's been accused of murder.
Well, nobody's perfect, I guess.
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Aug 17, 2011

Ms-Heather rated it:

Charlie went to bed with a grin, staring at the phone number Beth had written on the back of his hand that afternoon at school. Charlie woke up beaten, burned and cut, strapped to a chair in a room filled with torture devices....a year later. What happened in that year? The police say Charlie killed his best friend, was tried and went to prison only to escape a few months into his sentence. A stranger with a familiar face says Charlie's a Homelander, an American terrorist recruited by Islamic ex More...

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Sep 11, 2010

Kami rated it:

I read The Last Thing I Remember to see if I could recommend this book to some of the boys in my sixth grade class. The back cover makes it sound more horrific than it is, and the action will definitely grab them. I think that students will really enjoy the pace of the plot, and the main character. Charlie West is a martial arts black belt who wakes up one day strapped down to a chair where he had clearly been tortured. The rest of the plot is something like The Fugitive, where he has to clear h More...

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Jan 08, 2010

Molly's Sister rated it:

I love this book! Aside from good writing, intriguing plot, etc., what I found the most compelling thing about this book is that Charlie West is a good kid.
There's so many books out there for teenagers where the main characters have, to put it bluntly, lives that stink.
These authors write these books that are full of angst and the main characters have family problems, drug problems, problems at school, etc.
and these books get praised because "they're easy to relate to" More...

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Jun 23, 2011

Andrew rated it:

In The Last Thing I Remember, Charlie West has been kidnapped and he can’t remember what happened. West can only remember doing homework the night before and then he went to bed. West is in high school and he is practicing karate daily. He has a secret dream of becoming an air force pilot someday. West also has a major crush on Beth Summers. The day before he was captured, West got up enough courage to ask Beth out on a date. When his life finally started looking wonderful something happened, an More...

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Jun 17, 2009

Newengland rated it:

First in a new series, THE LAST THING I REMEMBER will be like candy for the YA crowd that loves an easy reading, high interest plot boiler. This is Book One of the new "Homelanders Series" and you'll know it when you reach "the end" (quotes with emphasis). Yes, author Andrew Klavan's last chapter might as well be a chapter in the middle of the book. Don't like it? Maybe you'll forgive him in February 2010 when Book Two comes out.

Much like LITTLE BROTHER, the p More...

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Jan 12, 2011

Sydney rated it:

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Feb 04, 2011

Blackbird rated it:

The fact that I finished this in one day should say something. I don't usually go for first-person stories, just because of the style, but I forgot my preference because of how well this story is written, and the excellent plot, itself. It moves quickly, with just the right amount of suspense. It's somewhat of a thriller without being graphic or "look at me! *explosion*" It's a good "guy" book, I think. If you know, or are a guy who doesn't like to read, take a look at this o More...

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Jul 25, 2009

Kelly rated it:

Reviewed for the Amazon Vine Program.

Author Andrew Klavan has been hailed by authors such as Stephen King and is the recipient of two Edgar Awards. Other titles include: True Crime, Don’t Say A Word, and Empire of Lies.
Charlie West just woke up in someone else’s nightmare. Covered in blood and bruises while strapped to a chair, Charlie tries to think of the last thing he can remember. He was a high school teenager practicing karate, doing homework, and dreaming of being an air More...

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Feb 05, 2010

Thomas rated it:

Charlie West is the all-around good kid. At seventeen-years-old, he has achieved quite a lot in life and lives in a pretty good household. He has a black belt, acquires decent grades, and already knows what he wants to do when he grows up. Sure, his mom can be a little over-protective and his dad doesn't listen to him sometimes, but that's okay. That is until he wakes up in a torture room. Strapped to a chair. And with no recollection of an entire year. Later on, Charlie learns that in the past More...

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May 08, 2010

Kelly rated it:

This started off pretty badly (main character isn't very believable* and is kind of annoying) but ended up being quite entertaining.

This is a book for young adults so I can't really fault it for being juvenile. It's not really intended for adults.

Anyway--Charlie goes to bed a normal high school student and wakes up in this weird room, strapped to a chair, and surrounded by scary looking tools. Scary looking bloodstained tools.

And he hears two guys in the hal More...

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Nov 08, 2011

Carol rated it:

Charlie West is your typical American teenager. He does well in school, has several friends, gets along with his parents, excels in his karate class and has a crush on an amazing girl named Beth. Then one day Charlie wakes up with his arms and legs strapped to a chair in a concrete windowless room. There is a tray with an assortment of blades and other sinister devices on it across the room. He notices they are covered in blood. Reality floors him as he realizes it is his blood and the reason he More...

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May 24, 2011

Matt rated it:

The Last Thing I Remember by Andrew Klavan is an exciting read for anyone thristy for thrill and adventure. One month has passed since Charlie West's, the main character in the book, last memory. When he wakes up he is strapped to a chair, hearing his sentence to death. When he is able to escape from his kidnappers many more problems arise. Not only are the homelanders after him but the police are too.What should Charlie do? Where should he go? Who can he believe? Through the story Charlie must More...

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Jan 14, 2011

Gina rated it:

This is an exciting book that keeps you turning the pages, from page one. It is intense, but I appreciated the lack of "graphicness" in the scenes. The author describes the situation, but doesn't go into too much detail when someone is injured... or killed. It is a book of living by higher standards, by faith, and believing in the liberty that defines the U.S.A. The only problem? I thought there were only three books... until I got to the last page of book three, and found there i More...

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Dec 09, 2010

Chandra rated it:

The beginning was interesting, and I actually sort of liked the goody-two-shoes protagonist, because at least he was more-or-less competent, and the way he went about things was mostly logical. But here's what rather pissed me off: Nothing was explained. Everything interesting I was waiting for about how the protagonist got into this torture room situation, how he lost his memory, what happened in between now and the last thing he remembered; none of it was explained. It was like a teaser for th More...

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May 12, 2011

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The last thing that Charlie West remembers is being a typical teenager is school, but now he is strapped in a chair, bloody and bruised, and torture weapons on a table next to him. Charlie West was a good student, motivated, black belt in karate, and squeaky-clean, but now he doesn’t know what’s going on. After he escapes, he finds out that he is wanted by a band of terrorists, and the gunfights, fistfights, and anticipating suspense never lets up. As the book progresses, the first half is more More...

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Feb 14, 2010

Robin rated it:

I read this book in one day - which is kind of unheard of for me with my three monkeys. It's about 340 pages but they go super fast. It's kind of like a young adult version of 24. I've been reading a lot of young adult, and really liked that the main character, Charlie West, wasn't especially troubled or angsty. He wanted a date with a cute girl, he felt like his dad was distracted, and he wants to join the Air Force, but feels like his mom will freak out. He says prayers before he goes to bed, More...

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Aug 03, 2009

Terry rated it:

Starts out with a rush and keeps it up, like an exciting action flick. For a while. With sharp plot twists and squeaky clean language, this felt like a good choice for fans of Anthony Horowitz, Robert Muchamore, or perhaps Daren Shan; comparisons to "24", "The Fugitive" and the "Mission Impossible" films are apt. But Klavan lost steam around p. 125. He confuses motion for movement. Then, it feels like the ho-hum TV episodes of "Mission Impossible," wi More...

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Aug 13, 2009

Jennifer rated it:

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Jan 12, 2012

Karen rated it:

Charlie wakes up in a room strapped to a chair, obviously beaten and bruised. How did he get there? Flashing back to the last thing he remembers, he goes through an ordinary day of school but always comes back to the fact that he is being followed and tortured and he doesn't know why. The facts slowly emerge in between Charlie's escapes, and it turns out that the ordinary day was over a year in the past, and he's escaped from jail where he was sentenced for killing his best friend! We don't find More...

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Jun 26, 2009

Kat rated it:

The Last Thing I Remember combines the thematic elements from such movies as Arlington Road, Enemy of the State and the Bourne series. A young man wakes up missing a year of his life and he is on the run for his life. The story is simply written and has no foul language, no sexual moments, no excessive gore and is pro-America, pro-God and pro-military. The main character reflects on Winston Churchill, his pastor, his karate instructor and his patriotism. A real cliff hanger and interesting p More...

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Nov 07, 2010

Laura rated it:

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