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Can I read Nothing Lasts Forever on EtoBox?
Nothing Lasts Forever by Roderick Thorp is a work of fiction available to read on EtoBox.
What is Nothing Lasts Forever about?
A grim, more bleak version of what you might have been initially exposed to in the first "Die Hard" film, Roderick Thorp's "Nothing Lasts Forever" was a pleasure to read.There are enough differences to keep movie-viewers off balance, and the writing is tough and terse, befitting it's hero, Joe Leland (not John McClane).The plot similarities are as such: it opens on a plane from NYC to LAX. He's visiting an estranged family member in L.A., who works in a high rise and they're having a Christmas party when the building gets taken over by terrorists. There's a cop on the outside, there's the cop's "superior" who's not the most competent, the big bad guy is Anton (not Hans) Gruber...but......the tone is really quite different. It's a bit more introspective, withe Leland feeling himself consumed by hatred toward his enemies. When he takes out a terrorist, you get an impression of how it affects him. They're not casual. And as he "gets better" at it, it starts to change his thinking. It's pretty interesting stuff.The media presence is handled much more seriously, not as a comic plot device/aside in the film. I thought it was much more realistic...the way media can manipulate the real sto
Who reads Nothing Lasts Forever?
It is typically read by readers looking for immersive, entertainment-first reading.
Common subject areas: fiction, literature, genre fiction.
- Author
- Roderick Thorp
- Published
- 2011
- Language
- EN
- Category
- work of fiction
- Subjects
- Fiction, Thriller, Thrillers
- Rating
- 3.82 / 5 (231 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-14