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Title: Time to Hunt
ISBN: 0440226457
Author:
Stephen Hunter
Publicate Date: 1999-04-13
Publish: 1999-04-13
List Price: $7.99
Average Customer Rating: 4.5
Format: Mass Market Paperback
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1: One of the best
Not only was the story great, but the reader (Beau Bridges) does an outstanding narrative. If you love to "get zoned out" while listening, this is one audiobook to add to your collection. I rented this about 4 different times before having to buy it. There are enough reviews about the book already on here, so I wont bore you with that, I just wanted to emphasize at the great job Bridges does reading and keeping your interest.
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2: The HALO of the HERO was more than a stretch!
I read this book after having read Point of Impact twice as well as Dirty White Boys. So, I finally got the story of the famous one man who stopped a battalion of VC in "the Nam" and how ole Donny came to be lost the day before his "DEROS".
I found this book entertaining. Like other Hunter books he seems to know what he is talking about regarding firearms esp long range accurized center fire rifles. He either did very good research or has some experience. This is in stark contrast to a famous murder mystery novelist I read who has a main good guy " flicking off the safety on her Glock ". 'course, them Glocks don't have a safety to flick off.
However, toward the end of this novel it goes fantasy on the reader. Ole Bob Swagger may be good but he is portrayed as a fifty year old who has the strength and agility of a 20 year old and the powers of a superhero when needed. I mean....his first jump is a HALO from the stratosphere into the mountains fully loaded for bear?
He's no mountaineer either ( I am ) and can tell you that you don't roll down boulder filled scree slopes days after surgery and survive. 'course ole Bob is superhuman in this novel. It was seriously disappointing the way the novel was brought to a conclusion and is the reason I will not buy or read further Swagger novels. Reading reviews of 47th Samuri indicate to me that Hunter took up where he left off in this novel making old Bob the nailer more like Clark Kent in disguise.
But still it was a good read...just not on the mark as believable. I found dozens of outright statements about how the Vietnam was was foolish, stupid, and destroyed a generation. This is really an anti war , that is anti Vietnam War , novel in clear relief.OK.....can't say that I disagree. Old soft men sending young strong men to their deaths for absolutely precisely nothing.
So if you want to read a novel about unbelievable , not even marginally believable, exploits of all kinds then this is a good choice. I mean, thousand yard shots in a blizzard, up or downhill, with a rifle you did not sight in , while injured and under fire...etc etc......
There is , in fact, a real zen factor in long range rifle shooting. you have to be in the zone. However, when that zone takes the shooter into superhuman territory more akin to watching bullets go by like in the Matrix? Read the book as an entertaining fantasy action adventure and you will be much more satisfied.
ps. Master Sniper, a good book imo, employs an ending that requires a pinpoint parachute drop in the mountains too.....except that this was without gps and all the other techno junk that Hunter uses in Time to Hunt to justify the unbelievable HALO of his HERO. Still, a good read just a bit flaky in pulling a magic ending out of the hat etc.
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3: Time To Admire a Storyteller
I was given this book in August of 2007 on a trip to Idaho. I sat and read most of it in a house among the alfalfa growing on the western flank of the Tetons. What a view. What a book. Since then, I have read 4 additional Hunter books [including the first three in the Bob Lee Swagger series - - Point of Impact, Dirty White Boys, and Black Light. Hunter weaves a story like few others can. The details, the visualizations, the retrospectives... very well done. I just love his work.
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4: Quality Book
I thoroughly enjoyed this book. This is a very exciting book and was extremely addictive. I have not read a fiction book in over 5 years, this was the first, and I read it in less than 2 days. I'm a shooter and it's great to read a book from someone who was a shooter/reloader.
I now plan to read every Bob Lee Swagger novel.
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5: I've read it at least 3 times!
You can't put it down..then you reread it. I cried when Danny died. There isn't any character like like Bob Lee and especially in this book. I think he based Bob Lee on
Carlos Hathcock I could be wrong. Just read it and love it. Thank God for Stephen Hunter.
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