Although it’s getting formulaic, whenever I see a new Jack Reacher novel coming out I always get it in paperback later on.
[quote]mapwhap wrote:
I like the Lee Child / Reacher series. You do have to suspend reality quite a bit, and there are a number of technical inaccuracies regarding the Army, but Child still pulls it off. Not sure how, but he does.
I’m a big fan of Vince Flynn also. Anybody else into thise?[/quote]
Flynn has great books, fun to read same type of Badass lead character.
Anybody know of a good series where the title character is both bad ass and willing to have a conversation. I have been reading too many books lately full of tough guy ‘piss-off’ one-liners. The Reacher books were he works with someone else to solve the capers are close. Perhaps I like a bit of intellectual/conversation skills in my main characters.
Any suggestions?
[quote]Tex Ag wrote:
Anybody know of a good series where the title character is both bad ass and willing to have a conversation. I have been reading too many books lately full of tough guy ‘piss-off’ one-liners. The Reacher books were he works with someone else to solve the capers are close. Perhaps I like a bit of intellectual/conversation skills in my main characters.
Any suggestions?[/quote]
Prey series arent bad. Davenport tends to have a little brains to him.
[quote]Tex Ag wrote:
Anybody know of a good series where the title character is both bad ass and willing to have a conversation. I have been reading too many books lately full of tough guy ‘piss-off’ one-liners. The Reacher books were he works with someone else to solve the capers are close. Perhaps I like a bit of intellectual/conversation skills in my main characters.
Any suggestions?[/quote]
Shakespeare Motherfucker…this isn’t it!
[quote]Brother Chris wrote:
[quote]Tex Ag wrote:
Anybody know of a good series where the title character is both bad ass and willing to have a conversation. I have been reading too many books lately full of tough guy ‘piss-off’ one-liners. The Reacher books were he works with someone else to solve the capers are close. Perhaps I like a bit of intellectual/conversation skills in my main characters.
Any suggestions?[/quote]
Shakespeare Motherfucker…this isn’t it![/quote]
Pray tell?
[quote]DJHT wrote:
[quote]Tex Ag wrote:
Anybody know of a good series where the title character is both bad ass and willing to have a conversation. I have been reading too many books lately full of tough guy ‘piss-off’ one-liners. The Reacher books were he works with someone else to solve the capers are close. Perhaps I like a bit of intellectual/conversation skills in my main characters.
Any suggestions?[/quote]
Prey series arent bad. Davenport tends to have a little brains to him.[/quote]
Thanks. I think I have listened to one of Sanford’b books on CD. I will give them a read.
[quote]Tex Ag wrote:
[quote]Brother Chris wrote:
[quote]Tex Ag wrote:
Anybody know of a good series where the title character is both bad ass and willing to have a conversation. I have been reading too many books lately full of tough guy ‘piss-off’ one-liners. The Reacher books were he works with someone else to solve the capers are close. Perhaps I like a bit of intellectual/conversation skills in my main characters.
Any suggestions?[/quote]
Shakespeare Motherfucker…this isn’t it![/quote]
Pray tell?[/quote]
He’s a gypsie who mustered out as a Major Military Police officer. He is a quiet cat, inner dialogue a man’s man. He doesn’t go around talking to people, that is his character basically.
[quote]Brother Chris wrote:
[quote]Tex Ag wrote:
[quote]Brother Chris wrote:
[quote]Tex Ag wrote:
Anybody know of a good series where the title character is both bad ass and willing to have a conversation. I have been reading too many books lately full of tough guy ‘piss-off’ one-liners. The Reacher books were he works with someone else to solve the capers are close. Perhaps I like a bit of intellectual/conversation skills in my main characters.
Any suggestions?[/quote]
Shakespeare Motherfucker…this isn’t it![/quote]
Pray tell?[/quote]
He’s a gypsie who mustered out as a Major Military Police officer. He is a quiet cat, inner dialogue a man’s man. He doesn’t go around talking to people, that is his character basically.[/quote]
Thanks, I understand his character. I was playing off the Shakespeare
[quote]Tex Ag wrote:
Anybody know of a good series where the title character is both bad ass and willing to have a conversation. I have been reading too many books lately full of tough guy ‘piss-off’ one-liners. The Reacher books were he works with someone else to solve the capers are close. Perhaps I like a bit of intellectual/conversation skills in my main characters.
Any suggestions?[/quote]
Not sure if this fits the bill, but Danial Silva’s Gabriel Allon series: art restorer, Israeli Mossad (special ops). Good stuff… although, as usual, suspension of disbelief required. I’ve enjoyed this series more than most though.
[quote]Tex Ag wrote:
[quote]Brother Chris wrote:
[quote]Tex Ag wrote:
[quote]Brother Chris wrote:
[quote]Tex Ag wrote:
Anybody know of a good series where the title character is both bad ass and willing to have a conversation. I have been reading too many books lately full of tough guy ‘piss-off’ one-liners. The Reacher books were he works with someone else to solve the capers are close. Perhaps I like a bit of intellectual/conversation skills in my main characters.
Any suggestions?[/quote]
Shakespeare Motherfucker…this isn’t it![/quote]
Pray tell?[/quote]
He’s a gypsie who mustered out as a Major Military Police officer. He is a quiet cat, inner dialogue a man’s man. He doesn’t go around talking to people, that is his character basically.[/quote]
Thanks, I understand his character. I was playing off the Shakespeare [/quote]
Yes, I was saying that the books are not written by Shakespeare where the dialogue is important because of plays, and that stuff. There is more internal dialogue because of his background. He thinks through the situation and gets stuff done.
I dig the character, but he is always stuck in plots that are so far from reality that it is tough to buy into him…if the author had any real world spec ops/para military experience, the novels would have been awesome…
[quote]Alpha wrote:
I dig the character, but he is always stuck in plots that are so far from reality that it is tough to buy into him…if the author had any real world spec ops/para military experience, the novels would have been awesome…
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if the author had any real world spec ops/para military experience, then he wouldn’t be an author.
[quote]Brother Chris wrote:
[quote]Alpha wrote:
I dig the character, but he is always stuck in plots that are so far from reality that it is tough to buy into him…if the author had any real world spec ops/para military experience, the novels would have been awesome…
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if the author had any real world spec ops/para military experience, then he wouldn’t be an author.[/quote]
[quote]Brother Chris wrote:
[quote]Tex Ag wrote:
[quote]Brother Chris wrote:
[quote]Tex Ag wrote:
[quote]Brother Chris wrote:
[quote]Tex Ag wrote:
Anybody know of a good series where the title character is both bad ass and willing to have a conversation. I have been reading too many books lately full of tough guy ‘piss-off’ one-liners. The Reacher books were he works with someone else to solve the capers are close. Perhaps I like a bit of intellectual/conversation skills in my main characters.
Any suggestions?[/quote]
Shakespeare Motherfucker…this isn’t it![/quote]
Pray tell?[/quote]
He’s a gypsie who mustered out as a Major Military Police officer. He is a quiet cat, inner dialogue a man’s man. He doesn’t go around talking to people, that is his character basically.[/quote]
Thanks, I understand his character. I was playing off the Shakespeare [/quote]
Yes, I was saying that the books are not written by Shakespeare where the dialogue is important because of plays, and that stuff. There is more internal dialogue because of his background. He thinks through the situation and gets stuff done.[/quote]
I can see that now. Thanks. I am so used to the “squat and milk” type answers I dismissed yours as such without reading any more into it. My mistake.
[quote]Tyler23 wrote:
[quote]Tex Ag wrote:
Anybody know of a good series where the title character is both bad ass and willing to have a conversation. I have been reading too many books lately full of tough guy ‘piss-off’ one-liners. The Reacher books were he works with someone else to solve the capers are close. Perhaps I like a bit of intellectual/conversation skills in my main characters.
Any suggestions?[/quote]
Not sure if this fits the bill, but Danial Silva’s Gabriel Allon series: art restorer, Israeli Mossad (special ops). Good stuff… although, as usual, suspension of disbelief required. I’ve enjoyed this series more than most though. [/quote]
I will look into it, thanks.
You may also want to check out the John Rain series by Barry Eisler. They’re all pretty good…John Rain is a pretty cool character. You may want to Google it, see if you’re interested. Eisler recently started a new series, with a new character…I’m undecided as yet on that one.
Also, someone above mentioned Andy McNab. His first two books, which are his real world experiences (Bravo Two-Zero and Immediate Action, if memory serves) were both very good. However, the fiction he did after that SUCKED. Those were some of the most boring “action” novels I have ever read.
And my vote for all time fiction T-Man is Earl Swagger. That would be Bobby Lee Swagger’s daddy, as created by author Stephen Hunter.
[quote]mapwhap wrote:
You may also want to check out the John Rain series by Barry Eisler. They’re all pretty good…John Rain is a pretty cool character. You may want to Google it, see if you’re interested. Eisler recently started a new series, with a new character…I’m undecided as yet on that one.
Also, someone above mentioned Andy McNab. His first two books, which are his real world experiences (Bravo Two-Zero and Immediate Action, if memory serves) were both very good. However, the fiction he did after that SUCKED. Those were some of the most boring “action” novels I have ever read.
And my vote for all time fiction T-Man is Earl Swagger. That would be Bobby Lee Swagger’s daddy, as created by author Stephen Hunter. [/quote]
Dirty white boys. Read a lot of Hunter, fun easy reads.
I will second the vote on Stephen Hunter’s novels. Very fun…I read my first Reacher novel when I was 14 and haven’t stopped. I always had The Rock from Walking Tall pegged as Jack Reacher, but since Punisher:War Zone, I can definitely see Ray Stevenson. But what’s up, no Robert Crais? Talk about extremely fun, extremely crazy novels. Joe Pike is an absolute beast and Elvis Cole is a very witty protagonist. L.A. Requiem and his new one, The First Rule, are two of my favorites.
Hunter is my favorite, I’ve also read Flynn, Thor, and Eisler. I enjoyed them all.