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3.73 AVERAGE
adventurous
mysterious
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Plot
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
No
all'inizio era molto intrigante e ben scritto ma poi è andato scemando. Il protagonista diventa quasi invicibile da sembrare superman. È una semplice lettura da fare in una giornata
I tossed this book about halfway through, because holy fuck was it terrible. The most ridiculous, absurd book I've had the misfortune of reading in quite some time.
Here's what happens:
Jack Reacher is a drifter who, apparently, doesn't use credit or debit cards. He travels by bus or train. He doesn't have a car, a cellphone, or seemingly even a change of clothes.
He decides in middle of nowhere GA to get off a bus that was going to someplace Not There because a brother he hasn't seen in seven years told him about some blues musician that may or may not have died in the area decades prior. He walks 14 miles into town. He eats brunch at a diner. Dead bodies are discovered in one of the places he walked past. So the small town, approximately eight person police force swarms the diner and arrests him because someone claims to have seen him there.
Jack gets questioned. Jack tells the lead detective how to do his job. Lead Detective does what Jack tells him and calls a phone number that was found on the dead body (because it never occurred to the L.D. to do that himself. Thinking is hard). L.D. finds out that the phone number belongs to someone in town. Jack tells L.D. to go talk to that person. L.D. tells subordinate to bring that guy in for questioning. L.D. questions Local Suspect. Local Suspect confesses to a crime he could not possibly have committed.
Because it's Friday and there's no judge available, both Jack and L.S. have to go to the state prison facility. At the facility the wannabe Warden puts them on the lifer floor instead of the holding floor. Some lifers mistake Jack for L.S. and try to kill him. Jack inadvertently incides a riot and kills/maims the lifers. Warden promptly moves Jack and L.S. to holding floor where no one mentions anything. On Sunday L.D manages to get Jack and L.S. out of jail (magically, because where was the judge?).
Now that L.D. realizes Jack didn't kill the people, he says, "Yo Jack, you used to be a cop. Wanna help a brother out?" and Jack says, "Sure thing, L.D. I can tell you how to do your job," so everybody goes on a field trip to the morgue. At the morgue Jack realizes that one of the victims is his brother, who he has not seen for seven years, who doesn't live in the town, but also coincidentally happens to be killed in Bum Fuck Nowhere exactly the same time Jack magically happens to be there. Now everyone says, "Yo Jack, man, we feel so bad for you." And Lady Cop, wtih whom Jack has exchanged approximately five sentences, says, "Yo Jack, I know you were just a murder suspect, and you're a totally weird dude, and your brother just died, but do you have anywhere to stay? No? Wanna come back to my house and be my Special Sex Friend?" to which Jack, being a red blooded american male, of course says, "Hell yes, Lady Cop, let's go fuck like sad bunnies," whereupon they retire to do so.
At some point, a few other people die and it's all very melodramatic, and someone eats someone else's testicles (literally), and L.S. goes missing. Now, L.S. wife says, "Yo Jack Reacher, I heard you used to be some sort of badass military guy. I want to hire you to find my missing husband," and Jack, more or less, says, "Okay, lend me your Bentley so I can drive around this two street town looking for him," because, you know, that's totally a thing people do. So Jack drives around both streets, doesn't find L.S. and concludes he must be dead and that L.S. wife is lucky no one has forced her to eat testicles yet and, as such, he should get in touch with some random FBI employee to hide her and her kids in a safe house on the DL, without consent from his superiors. Of course the FBI guy is like, "Dude, Jack. Totally. I've never actually met you, but I will totally put my career on the line for you because you're Jack Reacher, badass extraordinaire."
Now Jack is like, "Hey Lady Cop, let's go to AL and listen to some music in a seedy bar and get our drink on, then after that we'll go back to a seedy motel room and get our sex on," and L.C. says, "Sex me up, Jacky-boy." The next day, Jack and L.C. go back to GA and Lady Cop's house, only to find that while they were gone someone broke in with the, likely, intent of making L.C. eat Jack's testicles (this is totally a running theme in the book) and killing them both. L.C. gets all weepy over her almost-death and turns to Jack, whereupon Jack comfortingly says, "Don't worry, L.C. I'll protect you."
At this point I gagged and threw away the book.
Here's what happens:
Jack Reacher is a drifter who, apparently, doesn't use credit or debit cards. He travels by bus or train. He doesn't have a car, a cellphone, or seemingly even a change of clothes.
He decides in middle of nowhere GA to get off a bus that was going to someplace Not There because a brother he hasn't seen in seven years told him about some blues musician that may or may not have died in the area decades prior. He walks 14 miles into town. He eats brunch at a diner. Dead bodies are discovered in one of the places he walked past. So the small town, approximately eight person police force swarms the diner and arrests him because someone claims to have seen him there.
Jack gets questioned. Jack tells the lead detective how to do his job. Lead Detective does what Jack tells him and calls a phone number that was found on the dead body (because it never occurred to the L.D. to do that himself. Thinking is hard). L.D. finds out that the phone number belongs to someone in town. Jack tells L.D. to go talk to that person. L.D. tells subordinate to bring that guy in for questioning. L.D. questions Local Suspect. Local Suspect confesses to a crime he could not possibly have committed.
Because it's Friday and there's no judge available, both Jack and L.S. have to go to the state prison facility. At the facility the wannabe Warden puts them on the lifer floor instead of the holding floor. Some lifers mistake Jack for L.S. and try to kill him. Jack inadvertently incides a riot and kills/maims the lifers. Warden promptly moves Jack and L.S. to holding floor where no one mentions anything. On Sunday L.D manages to get Jack and L.S. out of jail (magically, because where was the judge?).
Now that L.D. realizes Jack didn't kill the people, he says, "Yo Jack, you used to be a cop. Wanna help a brother out?" and Jack says, "Sure thing, L.D. I can tell you how to do your job," so everybody goes on a field trip to the morgue. At the morgue Jack realizes that one of the victims is his brother, who he has not seen for seven years, who doesn't live in the town, but also coincidentally happens to be killed in Bum Fuck Nowhere exactly the same time Jack magically happens to be there. Now everyone says, "Yo Jack, man, we feel so bad for you." And Lady Cop, wtih whom Jack has exchanged approximately five sentences, says, "Yo Jack, I know you were just a murder suspect, and you're a totally weird dude, and your brother just died, but do you have anywhere to stay? No? Wanna come back to my house and be my Special Sex Friend?" to which Jack, being a red blooded american male, of course says, "Hell yes, Lady Cop, let's go fuck like sad bunnies," whereupon they retire to do so.
At some point, a few other people die and it's all very melodramatic, and someone eats someone else's testicles (literally), and L.S. goes missing. Now, L.S. wife says, "Yo Jack Reacher, I heard you used to be some sort of badass military guy. I want to hire you to find my missing husband," and Jack, more or less, says, "Okay, lend me your Bentley so I can drive around this two street town looking for him," because, you know, that's totally a thing people do. So Jack drives around both streets, doesn't find L.S. and concludes he must be dead and that L.S. wife is lucky no one has forced her to eat testicles yet and, as such, he should get in touch with some random FBI employee to hide her and her kids in a safe house on the DL, without consent from his superiors. Of course the FBI guy is like, "Dude, Jack. Totally. I've never actually met you, but I will totally put my career on the line for you because you're Jack Reacher, badass extraordinaire."
Now Jack is like, "Hey Lady Cop, let's go to AL and listen to some music in a seedy bar and get our drink on, then after that we'll go back to a seedy motel room and get our sex on," and L.C. says, "Sex me up, Jacky-boy." The next day, Jack and L.C. go back to GA and Lady Cop's house, only to find that while they were gone someone broke in with the, likely, intent of making L.C. eat Jack's testicles (this is totally a running theme in the book) and killing them both. L.C. gets all weepy over her almost-death and turns to Jack, whereupon Jack comfortingly says, "Don't worry, L.C. I'll protect you."
At this point I gagged and threw away the book.
mysterious
tense
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Plot
Strong character development:
Complicated
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
No
mysterious
tense
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Plot
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Complicated
adventurous
dark
mysterious
tense
fast-paced
adventurous
challenging
dark
emotional
informative
mysterious
reflective
sad
tense
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Complicated
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
No
adventurous
tense
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Plot
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
No
mysterious
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Plot
Strong character development:
Yes