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Title: Hard News
ISBN: 0385421214
Author:
Jeffery Deaver
Publicate Date: 1991-11-01
Publish: 1991-11-01
List Price: $15.00
Average Customer Rating: 3.5
Format: Hardcover
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Amazon Lowest Used Price: $3.97
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1: Awfully slow plot
The book's plot goes out of the main story so many times that you'll forget what were you reading. You'll know how the book'll end in the sixth chapter and that's a book's turn down. There are much better books written by JD than this one. So pick another book instead of this one.
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2: Full of twists and turns, this one is sure to please!
The final of the three "Rune" novels (sadly - I liked this heroine!), "Hard News" is absolutely full of unforeseen twists and turns that will keep you guessing right up until the final reveal. Tight pacing kept me turning pages way past my bedtime.
Rune is working for a network affiliate as a camera operator when she is given a letter sent from a prisoner - Randy Boggs - protesting his innocence and saying that he fears for his life and must be released from his wrongful imprisonment. Deciding that she absolutely must do this story, Rune pushes her way into the anchor's - Piper Sutton - office and convinces Piper to let her do the story. However, as Rune learns more information, it seems that someone doesn't want her to do the story - just like someone doesn't want Randy to survive, as he is subjected to repeated attempts on his life.
To make things a bit more difficult, Rune's roommate Claire left for Boston to live with her mother and get her life together - leaving behind her 3-year-old daughter with Rune. Therefore, Rune has to balance taking care of Courtney with everything else.
Lots of humor as well as breath-taking suspense. I definitely recommend this for fans of Deaver and suspense/thrillers.
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3: Wow. We must be reading different books
Women write excellent novels about women. This should not be startling news. Some men write well about women, but not that many. This also should not be news. Baldacci does an excellent job. He stays away from sex and clothing. LeCarre does a magnificent job. Robert B. Parker on occasion hits nothing but net with his new 'Sunny Randall' series, but not all the time. Too often, they're male characters who are a size 5. This is the case with Deaver and 'Rune.'
First of all, the one name bit. Who are we kidding? Have you in your personal lives ever known a human being with one name? I have not. I don't know anyone who knows any one named persons. So at the very outset, it's incredible.
Then she's an assistant camera person who talks her way into the major talent on a news program, and talks herself into an assignment of major consequences. That happens every day. She worked in a video store before this! She was a salesgirl!
She lives on a houseboat in Manhattan. Now you know that Manhattan, insofar as Real Estate goes, makes Ann Arbor, Lincoln Park and Santa Barbara look like the ghetto. So . . . how? How does she afford this? She has a $50,000 dollar camera . . . how?
Her tastes are promiscuous, she's caring for a 4 year old abandoned child, feeding her cheetos and sardines, she get's a murderer out of prison on guile and deception.
It was a struggle, Mr. Deaver, to finish this book. And finally, most readers CAN'T STAND when the agent says 'Hey, you're really selling now. Got anything you wrote 20 years ago?' That's what this is. It's just a republication of a republication. Come on. We deserve more than that. We are your faithful fans. 1 star. Larry Scantlebury
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4: The best of the Rune novels.
This last novel was the best out of the other three with Rune.
Rune is more mature and has a much better job this time.The
storyline kept my interest, but was far from reality (in my opinion),which gave the novel a downside.
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5: Fire From the Gods
Rune is simply wonderful. I love her to pieces. She's quirky, fun, naive in childlike way, and just a wonderfully likeable character. The Rune books are not the deepest books you will find. Nor are they the most exciting and thrilling. (Although they are quite.) But, they are quite atmospheric tales of New York and complex crime. They are quirky, immense fun to read, and light hearted. Don't take them too seriously (this is what most people do with their reading...they take it far too seriously. Which spoils what would otherwise be enjoyable fiction.) and you will really relish them. The plots are complex, the twists completely unguessable. (As is the norm with Deaver.) He is currently my favourite writer, and these little gems from the past only further convince me of the fact that he is probably the best storyteller i have come across in a very long time. Great characters, great plot, stunning writing. (I adore his style.) If you like quirky, fun, lighthearted books with a tense edge, his Rune series is definitely for you. (I hope he ressurects her in the near future for a fourth novel.)
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