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Killing Floor (Jack Reacher, #1)

Lee Child

Start date: May 1, 2010

Finish date: May 31, 2010

Discussion: Chapter 5: Suspense

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Mar 15, 2008 Gina rated it it was amazing

Right from the beginning, I was hooked! How can you possibly put a book down when the main character is arrested for murder in the first chapter? LOL, I don't know anyone who could. I liked this! Written in the first person, I felt like I was seeing everything through Jack's eyes. His opinions and his takes on his surroundings and the predicament he found himself in was different from what I've read before. It was weird how I knew exactly who the bad guys were, including one no one would ever su ...more

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May 06, 2010 Sunflower rated it liked it

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Jack Reacher: an impossibly clever fighting machine who appeciates his new found freedom and wants to live an untraceable life. He pays cash for everything, keeps moving, and no doubt wanders into many adventures after this one, the first of a series. He does seem to have a high body count by the end of the book, a lot of blood has flowed out of its original vessels and into the environment, and the one thing that might have tied him down from his wanderings is efficiently dealt with in the last ...more

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Dec 28, 2009 Barbara rated it it was ok

The first Reacher book, and kind of weak. Reacher just happens to be in the small southern Georgia town where his brother has just been killed, although neither of them has any obvious connection to the place. It turns out to be about counterfeiters, and Reacher does his violent vigilante thing.

There were, however, a lot of flaws. People behaving suspiciously in a bunch of different ways without arousing Reacher's suspicions for way too long a time. And the worst: a sentence that said something ...more

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Aug 26, 2012 Brooke rated it liked it

This is a page turner and I understand why people like to read Child's books. It does have some graphic violence - as the title suggests. I can also understand the appeal of a lone figure striking out on his own going accross the county by bus with no ID - ending up reluctantly helping a town root out evil and taking revenge on the murder of a loved one. ...more

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