The ending of this book was terrible. It's like Grisham couldn't think of how to end it so he just "ended it." I don't recommend this to anyone even if the reader is crazy about Grisham.
I usually like Stone Barrington books by Woods. This one was OK (well, none of them are great literature but all are good stories) but this one lacked something, I'm not sure what, but it just did. Of course, none of the Stone Barrington books take me very long to read.
 - Stuart Woods)
This was the first Jack Reacher novel and the first best seller by Lee Child. The book was pretty gorey but what attracted me was the character study outlined by Child. I'll say this again but character development in a novel is one of the things I look for and what leads me to read subsequent books by a particular author.
This book was quite interesting when I began reading it but as I progressed and Nixon "got more into" his own "story" I got the sense that the man was bizzar. At every turn he was "enunciating" some other "doctrine" which description always included his name. He was indeed a complex man, very intelligent and would have ended up being quite an effective president had it not been for his Waterloo: Watergate.
Did I learn anything from this book? Of course not. But in this work, Lawrence Sanders introduced a police detective whose name escapes me (I think it was an obviously Irish surname..I think his first name was actually Edward). But, he was a curious character. While engaged in a murder investigation he enjoyed making himself any manner of huge sandwiches which Sanders always described in some detail together with the beer or ale he was enjoying while eating the sandwich creation. Of course, using a character like the detective (he was not in every one of Sanders' novels) he was able to describe the way the particular killer's mind work. I just enjoyed this book more because of the characters.
 - Lawrence Sanders)
Quite a bit about culture and life in some of the island areas of the globe.
