Jack Reacher
by Lee Child · first published 2012
46% recommend46% neutral7% critical
Why HN recommends it
Fun, easy thriller series for light reading: standalone enough to read out of order, gripping on road trips and vacations, and shallow enough for bedtime. Suits readers wanting action-driven brain candy.
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on “Learning to Read in Your 30s Profoundly Transforms the Brain” ↗Fiction: * Jack Reacher: I've read all but the latest one. I would recommend it if you liked the story in both movies. * Discworld: I'm currently on The Truth. These books have been really entertaining and witty. Non-Fiction:…
on “Ask HN: Best books you read in the past decade?” ↗…280 lb bug exterminator to SEAL, and is now retired and runs seemingly-impossible marathons. He is truely a "mind-over-matter" kind of person. --- Otherwise, this year I started reading Lee Child's Jack Reacher series. Pretty good and recommened.
on “Ask HN: Books you read in 2018?” ↗Just assembled this audible.com list for a friend. These are all in the thriller/action genre. I can put one of these on for 10 hours while driving to our CT place and not even notice the trip. Jack Reacher series by Lee Child Gray Man series by Mark Greaney Orphan X (Evan Smoak) series by Gregg Hurwitz Gibson Vaughn series by Matthew FitzSimmons “The Eiger Sanction” by Trevanian Jonathan Ransom series…
on “Ask HN: Favorite audio book for long drives?” ↗…about vampires/vampaneze. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Saga_of_Darren_Shan It helped me escape from a lot of stuff, gave me a fantasy world to run to when books were all I had. All of Lee Child's Jack Reacher books gave me a character to look up to, someone to aspire to be like. At the time, there was maybe only 3 released but I read them over and over again. "What will you do, Reacher?" "The right thing,…
on “Ask HN: What book had a big impact on you as a child or teenager?” ↗Lovely story. Reminds me of the rather more violent but still enjoyable "graduation ring returned to owner" Jack Reacher novel The Midnight Line. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Midnight_Line
on “A Diver Found a Ring Lost 50 Years Ago Near Barbados” ↗…in Five Extraordinary Hacks- Scott J. Shapiro Readings in Agents - Huhns, Singh (eds) Programming Multi-Agent Systems in AgentSpeak using Jason - Bordini, Hubner, & Wooldridge Fiction: In Too Deep (Jack Reacher, #29) - Lee Child
on “Ask HN: What were the best books you read this year?” ↗…doing. Nice idea but, unless I'm missing something, not the expected behaviour. I would more have expected "the old man who climbed out the window and disappeared", Clarkson's biography and maybe a Jack Reacher type stuff (which I also enjoy but on the other end of the spectrum from the input books)
on “Show HN: An anti-book recommendation tool, to help you escape your echo chamber” ↗…read 12 books and ended up reading 49. You can see them at https://www.goodreads.com/user/show/15981902-emad-ibrahim There were some helpful books but a ton of fiction. I got hooked on Mitch Rapp and Jack Reacher series and couldn't stop :) Not educational but lots of fun.
on “Ask HN: Books you read in 2015?” ↗My in-laws recently downsized to a townhouse and needed to get rid of some books, so I ended up with about 20 Jack Reacher (and similar) books. I grab one whenever we head out on vacation. They're great, because there's no need to read them in order, or remember previous plots. They're good enough to keep my attention but…
on “The Invention of the Beach Read” ↗Jack Reacher series. John Grisham. Michael Crichton. The new Heat 2 novel. Pretty much any crime/medical/legal thriller does it for me.
on “'Too many employees, but few work': Pichai, Zuckerberg sound the alarm” ↗I've read all 20+ of the Jack Reacher books, some multiple times. Best bedtime reading I've found. Fun enough I actually want to go to bed. Shallow enough that if I miss a page or two because I'm drowsy, no big deal.
on “Ask HN: What's the "best" book you've ever read?” ↗I've read all 20+ of the Jack Reacher books, Same! I think they're great. But that's "great" when you appreciate them for what they are. I wouldn't compare, say, The Killing Floor to Nineteen Eighty Four or anything. But I'd say they're…
on “Ask HN: What's the "best" book you've ever read?” ↗…by John Sandford - Bosch series by Michael Connelly (He’s the “Lincoln Lawyer’s half-brother). Also a series on Amazon Prime - Orphan X series by Mark Greany I’ve followed all of these (as well as Jack Reacher and Gray man) series for years and have read all of them. Great brain candy.
on “Ask HN: What is the best thing you read in 2024?” ↗Author Lee Child has written a series of fictional novels which feature Jack Reacher, a former Major in the United States Army Military Police Corps. Since leaving the Army, Reacher has been a drifter. He wanders throughout the U.S. because he was accustomed to being told where to go,…
on “Wealth, risk, and stuff” ↗