# Lee Child's latest: "Never Go Back"-opinions?

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**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Created:** [October 15, 2013, 6:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lee-childs-latest-never-go-back-opinions/671334 "2013-10-15T18:43:04Z")\
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**Post date:** [October 23, 2013, 5:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lee-childs-latest-never-go-back-opinions/671334/21 "2013-10-23T05:35:01Z")

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You all seem to be forgetting the book that featured a great mystery setup with unharmed bodies encased in paint, and the big reveal that the killer had been hypnotizing them to swallow their own tongues. Really.

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**Post date:** [October 23, 2013, 2:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lee-childs-latest-never-go-back-opinions/671334/22 "2013-10-23T14:51:17Z")

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> [@TonySinclair](#):
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> Right you are. Hope and Despair were the names of the two towns.

which is just about as stupid as the book itself was. 🆒

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**Post date:** [October 23, 2013, 3:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lee-childs-latest-never-go-back-opinions/671334/23 "2013-10-23T15:07:47Z")

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> [@3\_20\_59\_or\_bust](#):
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> Jesus, thank you for mentioning Stephen Hunter. He’s got Swagger coming out with a walker and a machine gun in the past couple novels. I can’t believe he keeps trotting him out there, older and older. It’s ridiculous.

Oddly enough, I don’t mind the older Swagger (although they should get his daughters involved as the real main characters). What I do hate is how it seems like he’s run out of new ideas. His latest book (I think) looks like he’s going to solve the Kennedy Assasination :rolleyes:. The last one I stopped reading was such lazy writing in that it featured as main plot points the characters of Ted Turner and Jane Fonda, loosely renamed in the book as Tom Constable; (TT to his friends) and Joan Flanders) .

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**Author:** ![Enright3](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/enright3/32/2897_2.png) [@Enright3](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Enright3)\
**Post date:** [October 23, 2013, 3:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lee-childs-latest-never-go-back-opinions/671334/24 "2013-10-23T15:13:53Z")

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> [@LynnM](#):
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> For those criticizing Lee Child’s _Never Go Back_:
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> There’s a 50-50 chance that next week, Lee Child himself will visit you personally, at your home, to discuss your problems with his latest novel.
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> Not likely, you say?
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> Look: he either \*\*will \*\*or **will not** visit, right?
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> That, my friends, is 50-50.

Hilarious. I would say I have only one thing to add to this;  
but then again … Reacher said nothing.

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