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Originally Posted by rhadin
I have read all of the Reacher novels and I agree with Childs that it is Reacher's character that is more important than his physical characteristics.
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I have also read all the novels, and I disagree. The physical characteristics are not just mentioned "in passing", they're highlighted several times in each book and "drilled" into the mind of the reader. When you read a Reacher novel, you're thinking of a very tall and very muscled person, not what Cruise is (either in height or muscle mass). But only a minority of the movie goers will have read the novels, so for most people it doesn't matter who portrays Reacher - but for us readers, it certainly does.