Reacher

[bubblehead1026]

Any Jack Reacher fans out there? Reacher is a character created by Lee Child. He makes Spenser look like a wuss! Not intellectually challenging, but really good reads!

[DaleMN]

Have read many of Lee Child's books. Jack Reacher rocks! Just started "The Hard Way". It reads familiar so I may find that I have read it already but will be just as good the second time.

[ducati1974]

I've also read and enjoyed many of Lee Child's books. Jack Reacher is a hair too "superman" for me though. Have you read Michael Connelly with his Harry Bosch character?

[r_foye]

"Jack Reacher doesn't fear death, death fears Jack Reacher."

[collie1228]

To enjoy Lee Child's Jack Reacher series, you have to suspend disbelief a little bit. The plot lines are way out there usually, but I really enjoy them just the same. Reacher is truly "the man" and I am a fan. And regarding Michael Connelly and his Harry Bosch series, I think it's the best police procedural series ever written. And I like his Mickey Haller books as well (i.e., The Lincoln Lawyer). If you like Child and Connelly, give Nelson Demille a try. He writes similar stuff, and there are a lot of them available at your local used book store (if you have one).

[moosemose]

Jack Reacher is great - have read them all. Another good author is Daniel Silva - read them as they were published because there are several reoccuring characters.

[clpeak]

Jack Reacher is my hero. I think he is my alter ego..lol I just read "Echo Burning" that
was my eighth of sixteen Lee Child novels so far. Modern day gypsy. Travel lite, never do laundry, own nothing. I am truly a fan

[jmvalcq]

I just recently got into the Reacher books after I read all of the James Patterson and Stewart Woods books. I also like Vince Flynn and his charater Mitch Rapp and his counterterrorism advertures.

[mrdarcy]

My favorite so far is One Shot. Excellent plot twists. Could not guess the outcome until revealed.

[bubblehead1026]

Love harry and his half brothere, the "Lincoln lawyer"

[bubblehead1026]

One shot is the plot (generally) for the movie "{Jack Reacher" starring, in an incredible stretch, Tom Cruise!

[BarryRX]

I really loved the last one (The Affair?) because it gave us a lot of back story regarding how he became the person he is.

[BarryRX]

This is a little bit of a scary coincidence. After I posted my reply yesterday, this morning I received an email from Amazon.com that says:

Hi,

Customers who have shown an interest in books by Lee Child on Amazon.com may enjoy his other titles, available as print editions or Kindle books.

I know it's a coincidence, but it feels a little like big brother!

[rhood]

Reacher, Mitch Rapp, Scott Horvath and Jack Bauer. What a team they would be ! !

[Boudicca]

I enjoy Lee Child's character of Reacher although I agree with other readers - one does have to read the action and interpret it as OTT movie scenes. Still good fun.

[Taltarzac725]

Cannot really see Tom Cruise as Reacher either. I had a terrible time with Matt Damon as Jason Bourne too at least until he had played Bourne in a few movies.

[collie1228]

Tom Cruise as Jack Reacher? Absurd. Reacher is 6'5" and well over 200 pounds, and what is Cruise, 5'7" and a buck fifty? That's miscasting at its worst.

[Bonnevie]

totally agree. I'm sure he'll put out an entertaining movie, but anyone who has read the books won't be able to look at his character and think Jack Reacher.

[BarryRX]

Also agree! I can't think of whom I would pick to play Reacher. If it was an earlier time I would go with John Wayne or Randolph Scott or Gary Cooper. Maybe The Rock?

[Bonnevie]

maybe Jason Statham, the actor who was in "The Transporter" he's certainly the right type...

[Taltarzac725]

Can you believe that Lee Child came up with the idea of the name of Reacher after he wife joked with him after he reached for some fruit at a grocery store. She told him he could get a job as a reacher for the grocery store if his writing did not sell.

[GrandmaP]

I'm a huge Jack Reacher fan. Disappointed that Tom Cruise will be playing the role in the first Jack Reacher film. My impression of Reacher is totally different.

[Taltarzac725]

I'm a huge Jack Reacher fan. Disappointed that Tom Cruise will be playing the role in the first Jack Reacher film. My impression of Reacher is totally different.

The Reacher character sounds more like you would need someone with a lot of height and bulk-- say, The Rock or Vin Diesel.
Vin Diesel is only 6 feet but his movies seem to make him a lot bigger.


They could pull Alan Ladd like stunts though and make Tom Cruise look a great deal taller and heavier than he actually is. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/film/film-news/8577019/Hollywoods-shortest-actors.html

[crummybuttons]

I loved them all. Just finished his latest one. Nail biting! Now I'm reading Baldacci's Zero Day. I feel like it's a Reacher book.