Re Bosch, I pretty much like everything Michael Connelly has done with the character and surrounding characters over the years. Continues to be my favorite.
Love Bosch!
Re Bosch, I pretty much like everything Michael Connelly has done with the character and surrounding characters over the years. Continues to be my favorite.
Hah! I remember enjoying Nancy Drew when I was a kid, as well as the Hardy Boys, Tom Swift, and a few other such series. Talk about being written by committee!Nancy Drew books are better.
Giving Petrie a try, reading The Drifter. So far, so good. Thanks for the tipBig Reacher fan here, but I agree, lately his books don't seem to have the same fun factor they did before. This most recent one was the most outlandish of them all, though I read, and mostly enjoyed, it. I tend to read fiction mostly while walking at a good pace on the treadmill at our local YMCA, and what I really want is something that will keep me entertained enough to keep my mind off the electronic hills of the treadmill. If that means I need to suspend disbelief for a while, I'm OK with that.
I've picked up a couple of new authors that I'm enjoying, Nick Petrie and Jack Carr. Anyone else reading them?
I agree. I suspect when you attain the level of sales success that Child has reached with the Reacher series that there is very little if any editing. I also think at some point you just run out of ideas? People (like me) reflexively buy the new book every year. But I'm done. The latest effort(s) would not have made in into print but for the fact it was a Lee Child/Jack Reacher book. It was nothing short of ridiculous.I'd tending toward being an ex-Reacher fan. I like almost all the earlier ones, up to about Night School, that just didn't seem to have been written by Lee Child. The last one was just a rehash of a couple of earlier books in too many ways so I am torn between trying the new one and not bothering.
I agree. I suspect when you attain the level of sales success that Child has reached with the Reacher series that there is very little if any editing. I also think at some point you just run out of ideas? People (like me) reflexively buy the new book every year. But I'm done. The latest effort(s) would not have made in into print but for the fact it was a Lee Child/Jack Reacher book. It was nothing short of ridiculous.
I made it through Closing Time (sequel to Catch 22) through sheer stubbornness. I have never wanted to burn a book before, but I got close with that one.Time to 'fess up to an awful crime: that of dumping a book. We went away for a few days and I picked up the latest Reacher at the airport. I didn't start reading it till we were in our hotel resting after watching the wife shop...
I got about 20% of the way in, and thought I just cannot be bothered with this. I slogged on a bit more, and it was a slog and then put it down, and went for a drink instead.
I left the book in the room. That's me done with new Reachers. I might still flick through well-worn ones on planes when I don't want to think too hard, but Child has hit the wall I think.
I think the premise of Reacher turning up in a small town, which is beset by some problem, whether gang or peadophile ring or snuff movie makers, and bashing his way through it, has, for me, passed its sell by date.
If the younger brother say writes about Reacher's Army days (or at least involves Neagley!) I would be interested.
You all are starting to turn me against the Reacher series!
That was Lee Child mate!