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Type of bind: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 813.54
EAN num: 9780515123296
ISBN number: 0515123293
Label: Jove
Manufacturer: Jove
Quantity: 1
Page Count: 400
Printing Date: September 01, 1998
Publishing house: Jove
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Typical WB style, good story, good read. This was the very first of his, though, where I had trouble keeping all the characters straight. Which, to me, is worth a 2 star deduction.
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The Last Heroes promised to be about the OSS and the race to get the atom bomb. Unfortunately it is about sex and drinking and very little espionage with too many unanswered questions - disappointing. One star is given only because no stars is not an option.
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Griffin is the master of military fiction in my mind and this is another fine example of it!!! I love the characters in his novels. They seem like they are straight out of hollywood casting for some reason. Reading one of his novels is like watching a movie unfold right before your eyes! It is almost like the reader is right there eavesdropping on what is happening! Griffin is just simply an awesome writer!!!!
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The last heroes is not what the back cover implies it is: a WWII action/spy book. It turns out to be the total opposite. A big bore. I agree with a previous reviewer's comments about too much intimate encounters of the main characters. Oh, and way too many characters' names to keep track of. 80% of them non-essential to plot. Affairs and adultery run amuck. The actual main mission doesn't start until around page 350 and last for about 20 pages. I also realize that setting up a mission of that sort requires a lot of preparatory work, but this was ridiculous. The book runs 384 pages and 75% of it is wasted on establishing the 2 very first main characters absurd and imature personalites. As some might know, it a Men At War series of books, which I will not continue to follow. Save yourself some time and read something better and real, like To Hell And Back or Beyond Valor.
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The Last Heroes' dust cover promises action, intrigue, war heroes, and a gripping story. Author W.E.B. Griffin used all of these literary commodities very sparingly. In fact, this novel dispenses itself according to the following formula:
Dialogue. Travel. Dialogue. Sex. Travel. Dialogue. (Repeat X 5) 2 pages of wartime action. (Back to start.)
This work of fiction was originally published "straight to paperback" and it reads like it. I would fully expect to find Fabio as the cover model, Navy uniform unbuttoned to the waist, seducing several women at once. Griffin seems almost obsessed with his characters' sex lives, as sexual encounters outnumber battle encounters somewhere around 12 scenes to 2. When his characters aren't actually HAVING sex, Griffin luridly describes how they're wishing they were.
All sex aside, this book could have been reduced to about 20 pages of actual PLOT. The storyteller plods along, filling the pages with near useless, pointless (read: boring) fluff. Some might call this needless waste of words "character development", but I can summarize for you: The characters like dinner parties, they like to fly airplanes, and they have "itchy britches". I kid you not: our "heroes" don't even receive their very first set of orders from the Navy until after page 100. The subsequent plot turn is not revealed until page 266. Actual heroic action? It's on page 259-261 (Hardcover edition). Don't blink. You'll miss it.
In all fairness, Griffin's dialogue is sometimes clever, and he occasionally displayed some witty repartee, which doubled The Last Heroes' star count. My recommendation to W.E.B. Griffin's fans: Stick to his other novels. My recommendation to those who would like to be W.E.B. Griffin's fans: Don't start here.
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