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Summary: Facinating,exciting,informative,what more could you want??
Review: All of Eric Lustbader`s books are excellent but I especially enjoy the Nicholas Linnear series. I am a 67 year old grandmother who fell in love with Eric`s writing. From the time I read Black Heart I was hooked. I anxiously await each new book and am never disappointed.Keep on writing Eric and I`ll keep on reading
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Summary: To discover your enemies in Southeast asia is not easy
Review: Do not underestimate the power of money and corruption is a message sent out in this novel. The most dangerous assasin to you is often the one closest to you. This tale of deceit draws the reader throughout the world from the heartlands of the US to the depths of Indochina. Nicholas Linnear must infiltrate the latter area alone to face his enemey who has power unknown to many which Nicholas must overcome. Probably one of Eric Lustbaders best!
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Summary: Lustbader wins again!
Review: Eric Lustbader writes about the Japanese, their country and their customs like a man very well acquainted with his topic indeed. His descriptive passages crackle with vibrancy. Nicholas Linnear has grown into a hero a bit *too* impressive for my personal tastes--able to manipulate his own life force and massive mega-corporations with casual ease--but still remains the focus of a rip-roaring, high stakes game. This is probably not the best book to start with in either Lustbader's or Linnear's library, but if it's the only one you can find and you have a taste for intrigue, sex, martial arts action and oriental mysticism/politics...do yourself a favor and give it a read.
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Summary: Dissapointing!!
Review: Having read Ninja and White Ninja I came upon this book and proceeded to read with great enthusiasm.The first quarter of the book's not to bad infact it revs up the tone of the excitement pretty well like the preceding novels.Then all of a sudden it becomes quite tedious and I'm sorry to add boring.The charm,uniqueness and eloquence of the hero's world exemplified in the other novels just dies out of this one.The enemies Linnear has confronted and pitted his wits and strength against with have been interesting and well thought out.The antagonist in this one is not as complex or believable this time around.However as consolation the Leonforte character is quite impressive though he plays a small part.Towards the end the book just becomes more and more dissapointing.When I was through I wasn't compelled to pick it up again.If this is what one is to expect from the rest of the series I'd rather leave it here..
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Summary: Defintely Not His Best
Review: He was pretty much toasted on some hyperbole- inducing drug with this one. Anyone who thinks it takes a "quarterhorse of a man" to carry around a light antitank weapon can't have done all his research. They made them "light" so they wouldn't have to hire quarterhorses to cart 'em around. And I wasn't quite sure whether the hero was human or some supernatural alien who's ominsicient tanjian eye, ki, tau-tau, or origamic whatzit seemed best directed at nasty people's fingers. Throughout the book I kept wanting to say, "Geez, get over yourself." Skip this one and try something else.
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Summary: tanjian masterpiece in incomprehensibilty!!!!
Review: I love all the authors books due to the simple fact that they can consume hours of time, and after page 50 or so all the characters meld into one to be either honoured, killed or pleasured by our hero - the tanjian Nicholas.I advise getting this on tape as it is even more fun, to get confused and have a good laugh at - especilly good for long journeys!!! His other books are good as well esp. Ninja and Miko
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Summary: Two chapters were too much
Review: I only got through two chapters in this.
Just way too much violence for my liking. Let's see by the end of those two chapters, we'd had wild sex with a woman that we didn't know, who we then killed with her own poisoned fingernail (of course at the moment of climax), cooked her, and served her as dinner to the warlord type person that she worked for.
Oh yes, I forgot there was a healthy dose of oriental mysticism to further muddy the waters.
Nope, too much violence for me.
My star ratings:
One star - couldn't finish the book
Two stars - read the book, but did a lot of skipping or scanning. Wouldn't add the book to my permanent collection or search out other books by the author
Three stars - enjoyable read. Wouldn't add the book to my permanent collection. Would judge other books by the author individually.
Four stars - Liked the book. Would keep the book or would look for others by the same author.
Five start - One of my all time favorites. Will get a copy in hardback to keep and will actively search out others by the same author.
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Summary: Two chapters were too much
Review: I only got through two chapters in this. Just way too much violence for my liking. Let's see by the end of those two chapters, we'd had wild sex with a woman that we didn't know, who we then killed with her own poisoned fingernail (of course at the moment of climax), cooked her, and served her as dinner to the warlord type person that she worked for. Oh yes, I forgot there was a healthy dose of oriental mysticism to further muddy the waters. Nope, too much violence for me.
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Summary: It was OK but not all that.
Review: I thought the book was good but not what I expected. I am not used to reading international books and I think that might be why I didn't enjoy as much as others. I had a little trouble remembering who was who because all those foreign names sound alike to me. Overall, I'd say it was a good read.
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Summary: Definitely Not His Best
Review: The author, whose nom de plume suggests an unusual zeal for bathing, was pretty much toasted on some hyperbole-inducing drug with this one. Anyone who thinks it takes a "quarterhorse of a man" to carry around a light antitank weapon can't have done all his research. They made them "light" so they wouldn't have to hire quarterhorses to cart 'em around. And I wasn't quite sure whether the hero was human or some supernatural alien who's omniscient tanjian eye, ki, tau-tau, or origamic whatzit seemed best directed at nasty people's trigger fingers. Throughout the book I kept wanting to say, "Geez, get over yourself." Skip this one and try something else.
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