Jack Reacher - any good?

[Welshbeef]

K50 DEL said:

20 books in 3 years??
Really?

I spend hardly any time reading nowadays as I have too much other stuff going on and I still do 3 books a week without any hassles. On holiday I can do 3 books in 2 days.

I love to read!

That's c200pafes a day every day - I'd just not have the time with commuting family chores and evening meal.


Weekends are family time - head stick in a book is pretty unsociable.



We do watch some good TV comedy together so maybe if we cut that out could match it

[NDA]

TheJimi said:

Fork me, Jim Butcher's Harry Dresden!

How many times man?! Get on with it

OK, will give them a go...

Thanks.

[Oakey]

Silverage said:

I'm on my 4th or 5th Reacher book now and there are a lot of similarities to them. Obviously the "Reacher said nothing / I said nothing" gets trotted out at least 50 times per book, but what strikes me is that Reacher is essentially a vagrant living in cheap clothes for days at a time who only seems to drink coffee and eat fried food and never exercises yet he is made out to be a super-fit street fighter who can kill 4+ men with his bare hands at the drop of a hat and has all the female characters falling into bed with him.

Reacher exercises by beating people

[Laurel Green]

The new Reacher comes out(over here) on the 28th of this month.

Lee Child introduces PERSONAL to Jack Reacher fans around the world

[soad]

Laurel Green said:

The new Reacher comes out(over here) on the 28th of this month.

Lee Child introduces PERSONAL to Jack Reacher fans around the world

FIVE signed copies to give away to lucky readers!
http://www.deadgoodbooks.co.uk/index.php/win-new-l...

[NDA]

NDA said:

TheJimi said:

Fork me, Jim Butcher's Harry Dresden!

How many times man?! Get on with it

OK, will give them a go...

Thanks.

Hmmm OK - I read one.

Wizards? Broom Sticks? Demons?

Not sure it's my kind of thing - I stuck with it and read the book, but thought it was a bit silly to be honest.

[TheJimi]

I was thinking about you and wondering how you were getting on.

Yeah, it's a bit silly, but it's well written silliness and an interesting take on the PI angle. Admittedly it's not for everyone though.

[NDA]

TheJimi said:

I was thinking about you and wondering how you were getting on.

Yeah, it's a bit silly, but it's well written silliness and an interesting take on the PI angle. Admittedly it's not for everyone though.

It was quite well written, but the issue for me is that he always has a 'get out of jail card' with some random potion or spell - so it is just too far from being believable.

I've just started on the Inspector Banks series - I've never watched the televised version. Struggling a bit - but maybe will get hooked.

[droopsnoot]

Banks is very good, as always the books are better than the TV series. Apart from anything else, I don't picture Banks as anything like the guy that plays him on TV.

If you like those, there's also the Bob Skinner series from Quintin Jardine, and I also quite liked the Charlie Priest books by Stuart Pawson. And Graham Hurley's Joe Faraday series. With apologies if some or all of those have already been mentioned.

I read a couple of John Connolly books, and although they were generally good, I can't be doing with spirits and ghosts and so on.

[jbudgie]

Laurel Green said:

The new Reacher comes out(over here) on the 28th of this month.

Lee Child introduces PERSONAL to Jack Reacher fans around the world

Have just finished reading this. Not bad but not a great one.

[Welshbeef]

jbudgie said:

Have just finished reading this. Not bad but not a great one.

How the feck do you read so darn quickly!

[jbudgie]

Welshbeef said:

jbudgie said:

Have just finished reading this. Not bad but not a great one.

How the feck do you read so darn quickly!

They taught me at school.

[Welshbeef]

jbudgie said:

Welshbeef said:

jbudgie said:

Have just finished reading this. Not bad but not a great one.

How the feck do you read so darn quickly!

They taught me at school.

You read it in one evening .... 500 pages.
Either kids long since left home and wife out for the evening or not helping with chores/food preparation/bathing kids/putting kids to bed etc.,..

[jbudgie]

Welshbeef said:

jbudgie said:

Welshbeef said:

jbudgie said:

Have just finished reading this. Not bad but not a great one.

How the feck do you read so darn quickly!

They taught me at school.

You read it in one evening .... 500 pages.
Either kids long since left home and wife out for the evening or not helping with chores/food preparation/bathing kids/putting kids to bed etc.,..

No kids at home and retired ---all win.

Didn't read it in one evening.

Over four days.

Edited by jbudgie on Wednesday 3rd September 20:26

[Mr2Mike]

Welshbeef said:

How the feck do you read so darn quickly!

An average person manages about 300 words per minute (about a page of a paperback novel) but plenty of people read faster than that. A 400 page book should take about 6 1/2 hours to read at the average rate. Even if you only managed an hour a day, you would finish the book inside a week. If I get into a really good book it will be done in 2-3 days.

[Welshbeef]

Mr2Mike said:

An average person manages about 300 words per minute (about a page of a paperback novel) but plenty of people read faster than that. A 400 page book should take about 6 1/2 hours to read at the average rate. Even if you only managed an hour a day, you would finish the book inside a week. If I get into a really good book it will be done in 2-3 days.

Good point well made.

[Halmyre]

Mr2Mike said:

Welshbeef said:

How the feck do you read so darn quickly!

An average person manages about 300 words per minute (about a page of a paperback novel) but plenty of people read faster than that. A 400 page book should take about 6 1/2 hours to read at the average rate. Even if you only managed an hour a day, you would finish the book inside a week. If I get into a really good book it will be done in 2-3 days.

I can do that as well. Trouble is by the time I get to the thrilling denoument I'm almost speed-reading and probably missing half of what's going on.

[Nimby]

Just reading "Personal". It's very strange Jack Reacher being in Romford and driving round the M25.

[Laurel Green]

Nimby said:

Just reading "Personal". It's very strange Jack Reacher being in Romford and driving round the M25.

...and using one of those bivalve mollusc cards on the buses/tube-trains.

[soad]

Halmyre said:

I can do that as well. Trouble is by the time I get to the thrilling denoument I'm almost speed-reading and probably missing half of what's going on.

You're doing it wrong, what's the rush? Re-read it twice, in the end.