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I just read Nothing To Lose, and although it was kind of all right, it was really charmless. Reacher didn't really have any of the great epiphanies of childlike reasoning or meandering tangents that make him such a fun character. I did like the way he kept assessing fights in terms of muscle mass ratios - like when he realises he has to fight six guys, not four, he weighs this up as 250:800lb to 250:1200. But overall it was nothing special, and the ending was typically weak and pat.
The really striking thing about this book, though, is how many mistakes he makes. Didn't we talk about this somewhere in this thread, that he seems never to get anything at all wrong? In this one he is wrong all over the place, and repeatedly gets outsmarted by the villains. Luckily he can punch out anything short of 20 tons of angry humanity, though. |
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