[quote]tom63 wrote:
Child makes mistakes in his writing. Two books ago he made a mistake about guns. It was something that a little research would fix. But I still enjoy the books.[/quote]
Out of curiousity what was the gun error? Do you remember what it was about?
Just finished 61 Hours (his latest one, not bad, a little far-fetched but won’t spoil the plot/ending) & looking forward to his next one. Funny how there’s always something about Reacher stopping/enjoying a cup of coffee like it’s his main idiosyncrasy next to knowing the exact time even without a watch.
I’ll back up the ditch digging bullet stopping pec muscle story though, when I read the book I was like man I gotta start digging swimming pools.
Anyone read David Morrell (creator of Rambo/First Blood)?
Or Victor O’Reilly’s work? Sad he’s stopped writing after only 2-3 good books it seems
I was always under the impression that Earl Swagger was a really big, physically imposing man. Perhaps I misread, but my impression was that he was a lot bigger than most average folks.
[quote]tom63 wrote:
Child makes mistakes in his writing. Two books ago he made a mistake about guns. It was something that a little research would fix. But I still enjoy the books.[/quote]
Out of curiousity what was the gun error? Do you remember what it was about?
Just finished 61 Hours (his latest one, not bad, a little far-fetched but won’t spoil the plot/ending) & looking forward to his next one. Funny how there’s always something about Reacher stopping/enjoying a cup of coffee like it’s his main idiosyncrasy next to knowing the exact time even without a watch.
I’ll back up the ditch digging bullet stopping pec muscle story though, when I read the book I was like man I gotta start digging swimming pools.
Anyone read David Morrell (creator of Rambo/First Blood)?
He mixed a sig 220 with a 226 or vice versa. One’s a 45 the latter a 9mm. Don’t get specific if you don’t know the specifics. This was on the book previous to 61 hours I think.
Or Victor O’Reilly’s work? Sad he’s stopped writing after only 2-3 good books it seems
[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]
Series by Robert Crais. characters are Elvis Cole and Joe Pike.
I’m halfway through Nothing To Lose. It’s my first time reading this series and me likey so far.
Jay, Lustbader’s Nicholas Linnear series with Lew Croaker were excellet for sure, I forgot about that series. It’s been awhile since I read his stuff though.
My library now has a feature that tracks your reading history. Nothing worse than starting a new book and realizing you’ve read it before lol.
Just throwing this out there, on the topic of who would play Reacher… Lee Child has said on many occasions that he imagines Reacher looking like former England rugby captain Lawrence Dallaglio…
I know he’s not an actor, but just thought was worth throwing out there. Google Dallaglio if you don’t already know what he looks like!
[quote]bond james bond wrote:
I’m halfway through Nothing To Lose. It’s my first time reading this series and me likey so far.
Jay, Lustbader’s Nicholas Linnear series with Lew Croaker were excellet for sure, I forgot about that series. It’s been awhile since I read his stuff though.
My library now has a feature that tracks your reading history. Nothing worse than starting a new book and realizing you’ve read it before lol. [/quote]
I’m glad you’re enjoying the Reacher book. If it helps that book, Nothing to Lose, is one of the weaker ones, so it gets even better from there.
[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]
Series by Robert Crais. characters are Elvis Cole and Joe Pike.[/quote]
Not a bad series, although I found that after a few books Cole’s jokes became fairly stale and repetitive.
And then, Joe Pike seems like a badass until you realize that if you knew him in real life he would be the most uninteresting, unstable fucker who really needs to just chill out.
Despite that, they are decently interesting books. L.A. Requiem is the best in the series, I think.
Wow, just absolutely fucking Wow. So I am on the #6 Reacher book now, thought I would take a break and finish the new King book Under the Doom. And fuck me if King doesnt actually have a character refer to “Jack Reacher the toughest goddam Army cop that ever served”… this kind of floored me. I have read a lot of books but I have never had authers from different generes refer to characters out of other books.
^ Thats cool, I have about 40 pages left in book #6. It was just weird how you started this thread when I was a couple hundred pages in the The Dome book, then put it down for a couple of weeks to read the Lee Child’s book. And then when I go back to The Dome book is when it brings up Reacher, just the timeline kind of shocked me.
There are many little in-jokes like that in books and movie and TV if you know what to look for.
For an example from just earlier today:
I was watching “Dexter” and at one point he used a false name in an e-mail and it was “Patrick Bateman” who is the serial killer in the book “American Psycho”
