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Death Match
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I generally pass on novels with multiple authors. However, the Douglas Preston/Lincoln Child partnership is a mystery to me. Together, their trashy airport thrillers are actually not bad at all for the genre. Yet on their own, these guys deserve a special section in the Dan Brown wing of the Museum of God-Awful American Writing. I assumed after Douglas Preston's word-poop "The Codex" (listened to this driving up to Yosemite) that Lincoln Child was the decent author in the Preston/Child partnership. "Death Match", about a super-computer that optimizes online dating, disproved this theory in a big way. The book started out OK but devolved, Stephen King-like, into a trite, completely predictable mess toward the end. Much of "Death Match" was suspiciously similar to the earlier, also weak Preston/Child collaboration "Mount Dragon". At least Child is safe from plagiarism charges on this one, though his crimes against people stuck on a Southwest Airlines flight with only one book (ie. me) remain unanswered.
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November 1, 2006
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January 19, 2007
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May 26, 2012 06:39PM
That was a brutal commentary. I am far from bring classified as a "mouth breather" and yet I truly enjoy child/preston as a team and as individual authors.my overworked brain enjoys these novels
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You seem to have read several books by these authors to be able to write such a review . If you don't like their books, why keep reading them?
A different Lincoln had an apt line related to the review above: "It is better to remain silent and be thought a fool, than to speak and remove all doubt."
I hate the "why keep reading their books" argument. I know plenty of authors where I've liked most of their books or some of them and then along comes a clunker that I've bought based on their past reputation with me. It sucks when that happens and I agree with you about this audio book. That's two weeks of my commute life I'll never get back.
