A long long time ago, my 7th grade teacher suggested I catalog the books I read. I quit after a few years and have regretted that decision ever since. It's never too late to start anew. I have a habit of grading books and do so here.
9.13.2015
Make Me, Child - B
The reviewers seem to like this one. Then again, who is going to criticize what has just about become a thriller-genre national institution. I had some discomfort with Reacher getting out of his comfort zone. He spends lot of time on planes and even in a luxury hotel. I'm pretty sure he'd have trouble getting a room at the Peninsula, Chicago's finest hotel, in his 2-day-old $50 outfit from a rural general store. Im also beginning to wonder about his age. He acknowledges graduating from West point in 1983. That puts him in his mid-50's and he's still doing things that I doubt people his age can do. But, he is Reacher. In this one, he teams up with (and starts a relationship that is still ongoing when the book ends) a former FBI agent and they jointly pursue some very, very bad people. Of course, they do more than pursue. In the end a very insidious venture is finished off.
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