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A review by lettheflamesbegin
Killing Floor by Lee Child
3.0
Not the best book I ever read, but definitely the first one of this kind. It is interesting to see everything through Jack Reacher's point a view, barely anything escapes his notice. I loved reading his thought processes; how he calculated everything to the second, how he saw what he had to do. The idea of the whole money fraud was very interesting.
What I had to get used to was reading how he killed all those people without regret, in such a cold-blooded way. I've seen enough action and war films to not be shocked by seeing people kill other people, hell, I played enough computer games where I did exactly the same. But reading it is a whole other level. It became much more real. Realising what humans are capable of is always frightening.
Some parts were hard to believe for me. For instance, how easily they let Jack in on the investigation. How quickly Roscoe, a cop, just got together with an ex-suspect. It didn't make sense to me, but luckily I was able to look past that after a while.
The writing style was not one I am particulary fond of. A lot of overly short sentences and sometimes a fact was repeated three times in three consequetive lines. When there was a 'long' sentence it felt like a breath of fresh air.
Still, I did enjoy reading this book and though I told myself not to, I feel kind of tempted to read the next one as well. But, reading all 15 (and counting)? That's a bit much.
Something that I did find quite funny, was how everything was described in every detail, how terrible murders and ways of torture became visible in your mind, but as soon as Reacher and Riscoe got it on, it was easily referred to as 'love-making' and then the matter was done with. Terrible mutilations are okay, but sex? Don't be so ridiculous!
What I had to get used to was reading how he killed all those people without regret, in such a cold-blooded way. I've seen enough action and war films to not be shocked by seeing people kill other people, hell, I played enough computer games where I did exactly the same. But reading it is a whole other level. It became much more real. Realising what humans are capable of is always frightening.
Some parts were hard to believe for me. For instance, how easily they let Jack in on the investigation. How quickly Roscoe, a cop, just got together with an ex-suspect. It didn't make sense to me, but luckily I was able to look past that after a while.
The writing style was not one I am particulary fond of. A lot of overly short sentences and sometimes a fact was repeated three times in three consequetive lines. When there was a 'long' sentence it felt like a breath of fresh air.
Still, I did enjoy reading this book and though I told myself not to, I feel kind of tempted to read the next one as well. But, reading all 15 (and counting)? That's a bit much.
Something that I did find quite funny, was how everything was described in every detail, how terrible murders and ways of torture became visible in your mind, but as soon as Reacher and Riscoe got it on, it was easily referred to as 'love-making' and then the matter was done with. Terrible mutilations are okay, but sex? Don't be so ridiculous!