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Summary: Great book, unrealistic ending.
Review: The first 400 pages of Baldacci's novel were fantastic. It was fast paced, great characters and many plot twists that keep you fixated to this novel. However the last few chapters become rife with coincidence and a feel that the plot had to "forced" to go the way it was written.I like the character of Web London and believe there is ample opportunity to develop a series exploring Web further, but if there is a next time a less fanciful ending is required!
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Summary: Whoever Wrote the Jacket Cover - Never Read Ludlum
Review: This book is so ridiculously predictable that it would have been better if he'd left out chapters. (If you buy it, please skip chapter 21 as from there on... well, you'll get the idea.) At times you felt like the writer wrote himself into a corner and had to backtrack and insert a chapter to help the book make sense. Even then - the absurdity of all the pieces coming together - as they do in the end - is laughable. This guy writes nothing like Ludlum, Grisham, etal, and should not, however remotely, be considered to be in the same class. It is a beach book at best. NB: The review by Kristen White is one of four, three for Balducci, that she has written. Clearly she is his publicist, publisher, sister or in some way connected to Balducci. There is no way a review for this book, like the one she has written, is put forth without some outside motivation.
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Summary: Big book, big disappointment
Review: Superhero stuff centered totally around one character. The author tries to make him more than one dimensional by putting him in therapy. Shades of "The Sopranos". Some books you enjoy and think they would make a great movie. This just seems to be written for the movies and not a very good one at that. It's Bruce Willis or Arnold Schwarzenegger territory. Not up to Baldacci's best. I should have given up after the first few chapters. As an American living overseas, I'm afraid the most enjoyable parts of the book were the descriptions of my native Virginia.
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Summary: Utterly Predictable
Review: Just finished this novel - my first by Balducci. The action scenes are okay but spaced very far apart. The suspense is practically nonexistent given the predictability of every move in this book. Balducci tried to throw in twists at the end which are lame and feel to have been concocted just to tie in absurd story lines. Don't bother with this one. For great mystery/detective novels, I highly recommend the earlier works by Robert Crais and Michael Connelly.
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Summary: Not the best of Baldaaci
Review: The Last Man Standing is disappointing. The hero is so interested in what has happened to him and his own self-analysis is so detailed that it's hard to maintain any real interest. Baldacci's previous books were page turners. This one sat around for a long time waiting to get a page turned.
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Summary: Ponderous machine
Review: At the beginning ,action every 100 pages, and boy do those pages drag. The plot is movie style convoluted and not close to reality based. How come we keep witnesses alive so long, when all that is intended is their demise?
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Summary: Mediocre and Long
Review: The book has a good setup. You've got a elite Hostage Rescue Team at the FBI that gets utterly wiped out in a mysterious surprise ambush and one man happened to freeze and survive. That makes two big mysteries and there are another few piled on top of it. Unfortunately the characters aren't as formed as you'd like and it makes it hard to get attached to them. In fact, almost all the male characters turn out to be your classic tough guy with a kind sensitive interior and tragic past. I found myself just waiting to find out what the next character's childhood issue would be. The book does its best to pull up a surprise ending by forcing a few disparate stories to become strangely connected. The book is okay as an action/suspense read. I was entertained throughout, but not moved or inspired in the slightest. I finished unattached to any of the characters and somewhat annoyed at the way four or so plotlines just kind of loosely fall together.
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Summary: Good but too long!
Review: Baldacci writes a good story but at 548 pps it is too long because he goes into detail on any thing that comes up:guns,cars,horse farming,functions of FBI units. I'm surprised he didn't spend 25pps on Viet Nam. I enjoyed the plot and subplots, the characters, and all the action but the bookshould be about 400 pps long. i wasglad to put the book down just torest my mind. The main character isWeb London, the last man standing.He is a member of the Hostage Rescue Team or HRT. There is a lotof action and murders or killings but you won't know why until the end. Drug lords are at each other'sthroats to make money on Oxycontin.a prescription drug sweeping intothe cities. Web and his partner,Paul Romano, are using their ownmethods to complete their assignments and ferret out the plans made by psychiatrists and drug runners and even higher-ups in the FBI. This is a good read but be prepared to plod thru the dullpages to get into the action,
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Summary: sophmoric
Review: terrible. not worth the paper its written on.
horribly written.
dumb plot.
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Summary: Complicated but absorbing
Review: Baldacci has never matched his first novel 'Absolute Power' but 'Last Man Standing' is definitely better than his last few novels, which I found to be too simplistic. The story deals with a HRT operative who goes into brainfreeze during an operation leading to the massacre of the rest of his team and his personal investigation into all aspects of the incident.
LMS is definitely not light reading. It has a truckload of characters, backgrounds on many of them, several tracks and lots of twists and turns. But it also has a strong story, interesting characters and many suspenseful sequences. More importantly, it ties things together neatly at the end without changing pace and holds some genuine surprises.
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