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Killing Floor

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by: Lee Child

April 02, 1998
This book is total masterpiece, I really enjoyed this one - the plot, characters, layout, and total everything - is the highest notch in excellence!

I highly recommend this book! Like most of the Lee Child books!

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World without End

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by: Ken Follett

October 04, 2007
I have been waiting for this book for years.... and now when I have read it, I hope it was never written. IT does not at all live up the the Pillars of earth. Neither does it compare to some of the other good books Ken Follet has written. 150 pages less and it might have been ok. I try to end all the books I start, but this was heavy. The story line was light, some of the "histories" within the story are totally out of scope (like nuns in french war). I read 6 books in my vacation. This was the worst.

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The Eagle in the Sand (Roman Legion 7)

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by: Simon Scarrow

May 03, 2007
Excellent series. If this is the first one you have read then you might wonder what all the fuss was about. As part of the series it is excellent. Not his best but better than the rest (authors)

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Under the Eagle (Roman Legion 1)

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by: Simon Scarrow

April 05, 2001
I am putting the same review on this book and Scarrow's latest one in the series, "Centurion". Now this one is poor; poorly written, bog-standard charactarisation and ho-hum action scenes, but...

By the time you get to "Centurion" we have an author who has settled into his style, still basic, but eminently readable, with the author's research and expertise in the subject lightly spread amongst the plot and the expansion of the major characters into almost loveable specimens.

So for those of you reading this review in "Under the Eagle" stick with this series, it gets way better.

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Cold Granite

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by: Stuart MacBride

January 16, 2006
Let's get one thing right from the start: Macbride is no Rankin, no matter what you may read elsewhere. Whereas Rankin populates his world with complex, believable characters Macbride opts for tired, shallow cliché and toe-curlingly bad descriptions. He's also lazy, repeating the same descriptions over and over throughout the book, sometimes verbatim. That's either just poor writing or very sloppy editing.

I have no problems with the fact that the plotline is nasty and brutish - after all this is a serial-killer novel! However, Macbride seems to think that the more obscene and graphic he can be the more 'real' it is. Not so. Much of the obscenity does nothing to help the story. It's just there to elicit a 'yuck' reaction and ultimatly ... Read More:

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Dexter in the Dark

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by: Jeff Lindsay

July 24, 2008
All I have to say has been said in other reviews, particularly about the author cashing in on the success of the series and previous books, but not really having any idea were to go. Dexter in the Dark changes genres from the first two books with appalling results. As a previous reviewer said, you can't say too much without giving away the plot, but what the author has done has removed all the uniqueness from Dexter, and made him an ordinary person facing an unusual situation. Dexter loses his charm, wit, and character and becomes boring.
I've given three stars because the book was an average supernatural thriller;as one in the Dexter series though it should be given a miss.
I love both the tv series, and the first two books, they compliment each ... Read More:

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Persuader

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by: Lee Child

April 01, 2004
I'm a great Lee Child fan, but for some reason was late coming to this one. The way it's written in the first person offers insights into the classic Reacher character in ways that some of the other books don't. I found this really worked, and overall this was definitely the most gripping of the series so far.

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Broken Skin

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by: Stuart MacBride

January 02, 2008
I actually got my missus into Macbride by getting her to read the last three chapters of this book... Now she too is hooked!

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The Six Sacred Stones

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by: Matthew Reilly

August 01, 2008
I picked this up as the blurb sounded good. I wasn't disappointed. As a couple of the other reviews say it is slighly comic book, but all in all a great entertaining read. I'm now going to go back and read his other books.

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When the Eagle Hunts (Roman Legion 3)

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by: Simon Scarrow

May 06, 2003

Simon Scarrow is a teacher at a Sixth Form College. He has run a Roman History programme that takes parties of students to a number of sites and museums across Britain and I assume that while doing this he gleans lots of useful information for his books on the Roman Centurion, Macro and his Optio, Cato.

First published in 2002, this is the third book in the series. The book opens in Britain in the year 43 AD. The Emperor has returned to sunnier climes leaving the Roman army to continue its rape of Britain. After a protracted effort the Second Legion have been instrumental in quashing resistance in Camulodunum, leaving time for Macro and Cato to rest with the rest of the Legion.

Their General, Plautius has had the distressing news that the ship carrying ... Read More: