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In reply to the discussion: Die Trying" by Lee Child" [View all]

hermetic

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9. I'm reading it!
Thu Jun 30, 2016, 02:30 PM
Jun 2016

As a matter of fact, I picked it up at the library yesterday, sat down on my porch to await mail delivery, and started it. By the time I went to bed I was through 85 pages. After a few hours of sleep, the cats woke me up (as usual) so I read up to page 176.

SPOILER ALERT! SPOILER ALERT! SPOILER ALERT!

I believe this is the first book I've read about this kind of villain. Back in the 80s-90s I never really paid much attention to their ilk, figuring a few hundred nut jobs couldn't really harm me. But now they are coming out of the woodwork and will be VOTING! Or so they say, anyway. And they are starting to scare me. So this book is totally creeping me out.

There is one thing, though, that really made me say, "Oh, come on!" It's when he's writing about how a computer can analyze paint strokes, etc. on the van to determine the guy's height. BUT, They just interviewed the woman in the hardware store who recognized the face of the driver who bought the paint. Why didn't they just ask her how tall the guy was? Some agents, pffft.

It's okay, though. I still love this story and its intensity and suspect I will finish it by Friday because it is truly a page-turner!

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