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Title: Death Match : A Novel by LINCOLN CHILD ISBN: 0-385-50670-8 Publisher: Doubleday Pub. Date: 04 May, 2004 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.75 (12 reviews)
Rating: 4
Summary: A solid solo effort
Comment: I am a huge fan of the Preston/Child coauthored books. Individually, I have never found their books to be quite as great. I believe this is a great writing duo because they apparently fill in each others' weak spots brilliantly. But Death Match, to me, is the best of their solo efforts. I will not sumarize the story as it's been done numerous times previously. Unlike Utopia, which had a brilliant premise that I felt was not developed as fully as it could have been, Death Match does fully explore the premise of this book. The premise however, is not nearly as exciting as that in Utopia (Child's former solo effort). The characters in Death Match were better written and unlike other reviewers I found the tech talk believable and not overly complicated (and I am no techie). This book moves at a furious pace although the stops into Lash's past seem unneccessary since it never does develop into anything. The ending is predictable and gives you a sense of deja vu to many other books and movies where humans build a too powerful computer. But, overall I enjoyed the book for what it is a fast thrill ride into the near future that is not beyond believabiility. I recommend this book to anyone with a few hours to kill. I am anxiously awaiting the new Preston/ Child colaboration Brimstone.
Rating: 4
Summary: Fun, it is simply fun
Comment: I recommend this book. I want to be annoyed about the book because it is a rip-off of another plot / premise and follows a stereo-typical forensic psychologist who has mental and human demons and an ex-wife - definitely a tired character - but I can not. This book was too entertaining. I enjoyed the read.
A double suicide involving a dating service's clients causes a company (Eden, Inc.) to become concerned and they hire Christopher Lash, a former FBI forensic psychologist. His private investigation of these deaths (and others) is the substance of the book. To describe more would steal some of the suspense.
It is a small thing, but in the "how I would improve the book" category, I would reduce the author's usage of the uncommon word "unrelieved." It was distracting. Author Child describes a hall as "unrelievedly white" on page 67. When it popped up again on page 222 to describe a building as "unrelievedly modern," I turned down the page corner. Then again on page 298 "unrelieved dark" and merely two pages later "unrelievedly white". Enough, turn the page on your word calendar!
Rating: 4
Summary: very good solo effort by mr. child!
Comment: I've been a fan of preston and child books for some time now. And I've managed to read their solo efforts as well. While it was decent, Utopia just didn't live up to the previous efforts that child had worked on with his partner, douglas preston. This book, however, was a great read from beginning to end.
It leans more on the technological side, but it doesn't get bogged down in the actual technology like utopia did. The characters are great and there's alot of great twists and turns.
Definetly worth reading!
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Title: The Codex by Douglas J. Preston ISBN: 0765307006 Publisher: Forge Pub. Date: 08 December, 2003 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
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Title: Brimstone by Douglas Preston, Lincoln Child ISBN: 044653143X Publisher: Mysterious Press Pub. Date: 03 August, 2004 List Price(USD): $25.95 |
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Title: Scarecrow by Matthew Reilly ISBN: 0312289588 Publisher: Thomas Dunne Books Pub. Date: 24 March, 2004 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
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Title: Sandstorm by James Rollins ISBN: 0060580666 Publisher: William Morrow Pub. Date: 01 July, 2004 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
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Title: The Narrows: A Novel by Michael Connelly ISBN: 0316155306 Publisher: Little Brown & Company Pub. Date: 03 May, 2004 List Price(USD): $25.95 |
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