Book #6 |
Book: Killing Floor | Author: Lee Child | |
| Source: Library loan Format: Kindle |
Pages: 532 | Duration: 01/19/26 – 01/22/26 (4 days) | |
| Rating: ★★★★★ | Genres: fiction, thriller, mystery, crime, suspense, detective, action, adventure | ||
| 📕10-word summary: Ex-military policeman stumbles into corrupt town. Kicks ass. Takes names. 🖌6-word review: Excellent storytelling. On the violent side. |
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| 💭A memorable quote: “I had to decide how to use that pressure. I had to decide whether it was going to crush me or turn me into a diamond.” | |||
| 🎓Some new-to-me words: flight case, interdiction, shunted, jinked, Perspex, intaglio, lithography, letterpress, sap, camber | |||
| Description:* The first Jack Reacher novel. Ex-military policeman Jack Reacher is a drifter. He’s just passing through Margrave, Georgia, and in less than an hour, he’s arrested for murder. Not much of a welcome. All Reacher knows is that he didn’t kill anybody. At least not here. Not lately. But he doesn’t stand a chance of convincing anyone. Not in Margrave, Georgia. Not a chance in hell.*From goodreads.com’s synopsis. | |||
| Thoughts: I’ve only read short-story books by Lee Child — Eleven Numbers and Safe Enough and Other Stories. I wanted to get a feel for his writing before diving into the Jack Reacher series. I was impressed with his writing, giving both those books 5 stars. I had no idea there were thirty Jack Reacher novels, and this is my first one. I’d originally planned to run through a couple (in order of publication, of course; because, that’s how I roll), but I’m rethinking that now. I’m torn, because I loved the writing and the plot, but I really abhor violence, and the worst (meaning most brutal) kind of violence takes place in this story. And I have no reason to think that’s going to abate in any way in future books. I’ll probably try at least the second book, Die Trying, which I’m in the queue for at my library. I hear there is a Reacher TV series, starring Alan Ritchson (a hunk!), and there are two Reacher movies, starring Tom Cruise. Bob’s the movie-watcher in our family, and he said, “Tom Cruise is too wimpy to play Reacher.” I’ve seen neither, as I don’t watch TV or movies, and with the violence in this book, I don’t have any desire to watch either. | |||
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