What Are You Reading
August 10th, 2021 at 4:08:45 PM permalink | |
petroglyph Member since: Aug 3, 2014 Threads: 25 Posts: 6227 | I liked these books by Coban: /Deal Breaker, Gone for good, Drop shot, No second chance, Just one look, Darkest Fear, The woods, Back Spin, The innocent, Promise me, The final Detail, Tell no one, One false move, and Long lost. I haven't been reading books lately. I enjoyed those. https://www.bookseriesinorder.com/harlan-coben/ The last official act of any government is to loot the treasury. GW |
August 10th, 2021 at 5:11:23 PM permalink | |
Evenbob Member since: Oct 24, 2012 Threads: 146 Posts: 25010 |
Those could be titles to Jack Reacher books. Lee Child uses titles that are two and three words just like this author does. Never go back, Killing Floor, tripwire, Blue Moon, Midnight line, the enemy, 18 hours, one shot, night school, die trying. I'm reading Papa Hemingway again. AE Hotchner knew Hemingway from 1947 to 1961 and he wrote this book in 1966. He recently died at a 101. His best friend was Paul Newman, of all people, because they lived near each other in Connecticut. If you take a risk, you may lose. If you never take a risk, you will always lose. |
August 10th, 2021 at 8:13:03 PM permalink | |
petroglyph Member since: Aug 3, 2014 Threads: 25 Posts: 6227 | I really enjoyed the old Reacher books, but Cruise kind of ruined it for me. The last official act of any government is to loot the treasury. GW |
August 10th, 2021 at 8:25:56 PM permalink | |
terapined Member since: Aug 6, 2014 Threads: 73 Posts: 11786 |
I totally agree I love all the Reacher books Cruise ain't Reacher. Kind of absurd. I still read Lee Child but I have a totally different physique in mind when picturing Reacher Sometimes we live no particular way but our own - Grateful Dead "Eyes of the World" |
August 10th, 2021 at 8:31:24 PM permalink | |
Evenbob Member since: Oct 24, 2012 Threads: 146 Posts: 25010 |
I enjoy the Tom Cruise Reacher movie because I don't look at him as Jack Reacher. Reacher is 6 ft 5 250 lb. Tom Cruise is 5 foot 6 155 pounds. I just enjoy the movie for what it is If you take a risk, you may lose. If you never take a risk, you will always lose. |
August 11th, 2021 at 10:11:06 AM permalink | |
DRich Member since: Oct 24, 2012 Threads: 51 Posts: 4944 | I also like the Reacher books and similar ones. I haven't seen the movies so I can't compare. What other series should I look for that is similar? I have read the Patterson books. I need to start a new series. At my age a Life In Prison sentence is not much of a detrrent. |
August 11th, 2021 at 11:14:33 AM permalink | |
missedhervee Member since: Apr 23, 2021 Threads: 96 Posts: 3092 |
Authors whose series I've enjoyed: Preston & Child: mystery/thriller John Ringo: sci fi |
August 11th, 2021 at 11:23:01 AM permalink | |
DRich Member since: Oct 24, 2012 Threads: 51 Posts: 4944 |
Thank you. I was thinking specifically about detective novels like the Reacher series. I would not read a sci-fi book if I you offered to pay me. At my age a Life In Prison sentence is not much of a detrrent. |
August 11th, 2021 at 11:30:40 AM permalink | |
terapined Member since: Aug 6, 2014 Threads: 73 Posts: 11786 |
Read all the Det Penderghast books. Fun reads. will have to look into John Ringo Sometimes we live no particular way but our own - Grateful Dead "Eyes of the World" |
August 11th, 2021 at 11:32:02 AM permalink | |
terapined Member since: Aug 6, 2014 Threads: 73 Posts: 11786 |
Michael Connelly I've read all his books Good stuff Sometimes we live no particular way but our own - Grateful Dead "Eyes of the World" |