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**pastor's wife** · 09-04-2011, 10:58 PM

I recently saw a book on the "New Books" shelf at our library called "61 Hours" by Lee Child. I read it, really enjoyed it, and realized it was one of several based on a character named Jack Reacher.

I am TOTALLY enjoying these books; I've seen them classified as crime fiction as well as thrillers. I'm sort of shy about mentioning how much I enjoy them on facebook though because I have lots of friends who'd be offended at the language, the violence, among other things.

Unfortunately, I had two novels checked out over the long weekend when the library's closed and I finished them both, leaving me to have to read the other two books I checked out, NOT by Lee Childs and I guess I got spoiled (or just picked lousy books), because they are BORING me to death. I can't wait to get to the library and see if any more have come in.

And I'm a very recent fan, but I am OUTRAGED that Tom Cruise has supposedly been selected to play Reacher in a movie. They have got to be stinking KIDDING me. It's more than a slap in the face to fans. It's like a poop in the face.

Anyway, are there any Jack Reacher fans out there?

**pastor's wife** · (This post was last modified: 09-04-2011 11:09 PM by pastor's wife.)

Yeah, but Reacher is specifically described as being HUGE - six foot five. His appearance and his physical skills play a big part in the novels.

I've enjoyed Tom Cruise's acting in other movies, but he is so totally NOT Jack Reacher.

lorinda · 09-29-2011, 10:07 PM

Hi PW--I'm a huge Jack Reacher fan. Amazon got me hooked by offering one of Lee Child's books free for Kindle. I ended up buying all the rest! I also got both my parents hooked because we share a Kindle account. My dad and I were both upset that Tom Cruise will be Jack Reacher for the movie. He's what? 5'6"? No CGI in the world is going to make this right. And I respectfully disagree that he was a good Lestat. The only movie I like him in is "Minority Report."

**pastor's wife** · 09-30-2011, 07:26 AM

Hey, lorinda! I read all the Jack Reacher books in less than a month! Now I wish I'd spread them out more because I'm all done. I'm often surprised at who ends up being killed in the stories; Lee Childs has killed off some characters that surprised me before.

I liked both <i> Minority Report </i> and <i>War of the Worlds</i>, but making Tom Cruise Jack Reacher destroys the character, imo.

lorinda · 10-03-2011, 11:37 PM

Now that you mention War of the Worlds, he wasn't too bad. But true dat, sister about Reacher. Did you read the newest book which is an origin-story type? I haven't yet, but my dad said it was good.

**pastor's wife** · 10-04-2011, 06:31 AM

I just checked out his website. I haven't yet read "The Affair" or the shorter one "Second Son."

The first one I read after choosing it at random in the library was "61 Hours" which moved slowly but I enjoyed as it kept getting closer and closer to . . . you didn't know what. Although Lee Childs did kill off some people I wanted to live in that story.

Sometimes the descriptions of the towns he gives are almost claustrophobic: small little towns out in the middle of nowhere with nowhere to run and nowhere to hide. 61 Hours was like that; so was the one set in Nebraska and the one in Colorado with the alternate towns of Hope and Despair.

lorinda · 10-08-2011, 07:54 AM

Nice catch on the town names; I missed that. My first read of his was the one where he ends up in the prison in the South. He wrote one about North Dakota in winter. I had to laugh. No one, not even Jack Reacher, could walk outside for three miles without a coat. You'd be a corpesicle.