Comments on: A new Jack Reacher book (and some other stuff) http://www.bookwormroom.com/2008/06/03/a-new-jack-reacher-book-and-some-other-stuff/ Conservatives deal with facts and reach conclusions; liberals have conclusions and sell them as facts. Fri, 10 Feb 2012 13:48:25 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Ymarsakar http://www.bookwormroom.com/2008/06/03/a-new-jack-reacher-book-and-some-other-stuff/comment-page-1/#comment-24401 Ymarsakar Wed, 04 Jun 2008 06:58:11 +0000 http://www.bookwormroom.com/?p=3013#comment-24401 Indeed. People justify anti-military stances by saying they support the troops by criticizing the mission. They never could recognize the kind of evil that becomes justified from those same anti-military stances. Indeed. People justify anti-military stances by saying they support the troops by criticizing the mission. They never could recognize the kind of evil that becomes justified from those same anti-military stances.

]]> By: Bookworm http://www.bookwormroom.com/2008/06/03/a-new-jack-reacher-book-and-some-other-stuff/comment-page-1/#comment-24399 Bookworm Wed, 04 Jun 2008 03:26:06 +0000 http://www.bookwormroom.com/?p=3013#comment-24399 Y, the Blackfive post was really upsetting. Jack Reacher would have righted that wrong. Y, the Blackfive post was really upsetting. Jack Reacher would have righted that wrong.

]]> By: Ymarsakar http://www.bookwormroom.com/2008/06/03/a-new-jack-reacher-book-and-some-other-stuff/comment-page-1/#comment-24393 Ymarsakar Wed, 04 Jun 2008 01:28:32 +0000 http://www.bookwormroom.com/?p=3013#comment-24393 <B>He hardly looks like a condom crammed with walnuts, as a female friend of Reacher’s once described him, and he doesn’t appear to be the sort of person who would be much use in a bar fight.</b> Killers are not people you want backing you in a bar fight. Not unless you wish to come out of the bar being the only group that is still alive or un-crippled. <B>You can’t picture him head-butting, or breaking someone’s nose with his elbow.<b> Most serial killers and sadists are regular citizens from all appearances. Just ask the people that knew them and lived next to them. The fact that the NYTimes seems to try to make a comparison between someone they see as violent in a book and someone they see as ostensibly peaceful in life, is indicative of the NYTimes' naivety, ignorance, and downright stupidity concerning violence and those that deal in it. <B>So many books were about heroes who were depressed or dysfunctional, which at one time was a very valid departure, but then everyone piled in and copied it.</b> Which is rather depressing if it hadn't been already with the "dysfunctional hero" syndrome. He hardly looks like a condom crammed with walnuts, as a female friend of Reacher’s once described him, and he doesn’t appear to be the sort of person who would be much use in a bar fight.

Killers are not people you want backing you in a bar fight. Not unless you wish to come out of the bar being the only group that is still alive or un-crippled.

You can’t picture him head-butting, or breaking someone’s nose with his elbow.

Most serial killers and sadists are regular citizens from all appearances. Just ask the people that knew them and lived next to them. The fact that the NYTimes seems to try to make a comparison between someone they see as violent in a book and someone they see as ostensibly peaceful in life, is indicative of the NYTimes’ naivety, ignorance, and downright stupidity concerning violence and those that deal in it.

So many books were about heroes who were depressed or dysfunctional, which at one time was a very valid departure, but then everyone piled in and copied it.

Which is rather depressing if it hadn’t been already with the “dysfunctional hero” syndrome.

]]> By: Ymarsakar http://www.bookwormroom.com/2008/06/03/a-new-jack-reacher-book-and-some-other-stuff/comment-page-1/#comment-24392 Ymarsakar Wed, 04 Jun 2008 01:14:51 +0000 http://www.bookwormroom.com/?p=3013#comment-24392 http://www.blackfive.net/main/2008/06/a-battle-over-a.html#comments http://cannoneerno4.wordpress.com/2008/06/02/president-bush-tolerated-disloyalty-and-paid-the-price/#comment-9348 important links you should read, Book. <B>Reacher is a huge loner who travels around America violently righting even more violent wrongs.</b> it is apropos to the first link. http://www.blackfive.net/main/2008/06/a-battle-over-a.html#comments

http://cannoneerno4.wordpress.com/2008/06/02/president-bush-tolerated-disloyalty-and-paid-the-price/#comment-9348

important links you should read, Book.

Reacher is a huge loner who travels around America violently righting even more violent wrongs.

it is apropos to the first link.

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