Active discussions

Please or to access all these features

Talk
What we're reading

Find your new favourite book or recommend one on our Book forum.

Original poster

Any Lee Child fans?

111 replies

Sidge · 23/03/2008 21:42

Hie new book is out tomorrow - can't wait!!

OP posts:
cocolepew · 31/03/2008 18:42

Wow Pooka, good choice! I'd never heard of him before My mum and I were talking at the weekend who could play our favourites. I always imagine John Cusack as Myron and she pictures Geoege Clooney as everyone

MrsGuyOfGisbourne · 31/03/2008 18:35

I vote for Richard Armitage. (Becasue i always do - for everything)

pooka · 31/03/2008 14:28

I've been thinking about who could play him if they made it into a film. How about Ray Stevenson - was Pullo in Rome. Is very tall, well built, looks a bit rough around the edges.
Didn't enjoy the latest as much - sort of fizzled out at the end. But still a good read.

www.imdb.com/gallery/granitz/3714/Events/3714/RayStevens_AmyG_6161536_400.jpg?path=pgallery&path_key =Stevenson,%20Ray%20(I)

rosmerta · 31/03/2008 14:24

ok, not got to that bit yet

Original poster
Sidge · 31/03/2008 14:22

Ah but Rosmerta at some point (about page 300 I think) it also mentions his underwear is beyond it's useful life so he goes without

OP posts:
rosmerta · 31/03/2008 13:56

I got it from Tescos (£10!) and am about halfway through! Am quite enjoying it but think it would be handy to have a map at the front!

Though Sidge, he does mention buying underwear in this one

Original poster
Sidge · 31/03/2008 11:37

I finished it last night!!

Twas good. Agree with jura, not his best (a little too descriptive in places re layout of the plant etc) and not enough fighting for me but very enjoyable none the less.

And I can confirm Reacher does go commando. Negative underwear.

OP posts:
Piffle · 31/03/2008 00:22

I heart jack reacher
great read this one
Does anyone want my copy now I've read it? For half cover price say?
my mum and I are both huge fans

jura · 31/03/2008 00:16

This reply has been deleted

Message withdrawn at poster's request.

nkf · 30/03/2008 10:11

I had a Lee Child obsession last year. Read them all night after night. They're certainly gripping even though they can be silly in places. One of them actually made me cry.

elkiedee · 30/03/2008 10:07

Pillow, he has, yes. The Harrogate one is organised by crime writers - Val McDermid for the first 3 years, then Mark Billingham and Natasha Cooper. This year it's Simon Kernick. They often contact friends, writers they admire, other writers who they meet at crime fiction conventions.

MrsGuyOfGisbourne · 30/03/2008 09:46

YES, YES, YES !!!!!!!!!!!!
pre-ordered on Amazon as soon as I heard it ws coming - it recently arrived and I have locked it away for the summer camping hols. (Reason being - started reading them a few years ago, and one of the highlights of the summer hols is my ritual of sitting on the deck of a caravan in on a French campsite in the mellow eveing with my G&Ts and the latest jack reacher novel.) Jack is my hero - PURE escapism. Lee Child was on the Simon Mayo show on R4 Thursday - very nice guy.

Pillow · 30/03/2008 00:58

Elkie - I think Harlan has been to the Harrogate one in the past?

BecauseImWorthIt · 29/03/2008 19:59

Well as my dad lives in East Keswick, not a million miles away, I could arrange to be there - could be quite good fun!

How about the rest of you?

elkiedee · 29/03/2008 19:58

BIWI, that would be great. If anyone is tempted, let me know, as I plan to go to Harrogate but am still wondering about Bristol at the moment.

cocolepew · 29/03/2008 19:23

Good thing about it is, my usually crap empty library has all her books!

BecauseImWorthIt · 29/03/2008 19:20

I am very - I would like to be discovering her again!

cocolepew · 29/03/2008 19:03

Northern Ireland, maybe I could book the family holiday for Bristol . Just got an Janet Evanovitch book from the library, I can't believe I've never read her before! Very funny.

BecauseImWorthIt · 29/03/2008 19:01

Perhaps the MN Massive should put in an appearance?!

elkiedee · 29/03/2008 17:19

Whereabouts are you cocolepew? Someone who organised a US crime fiction convention, for writers and readers, only in Bristol, in 2006, is going to organise one in June every 2 years, called CrimeFest, starting this June. Sadly Lee Child was going to be a special guest but has apparently dropped out.

www.crimefest.com/

Or there's a Crime Festival in Harrogate every year in July if that's more convenient for you. I've been every year, even with DS at under 3 months last summer!

www.harrogate-festival.org.uk/crime/crime-events.html

cocolepew · 29/03/2008 12:20

There seems to be a lot of crime writers conventions in the U.S. Wish they would start them here.

elkiedee · 29/03/2008 00:30

I enjoy crime fiction and read a Lee Child book for an online reading group which really changed my life - my first really big online thing.

I met him at a crime fiction convention and he's an amazingly nice man - that made me want to read one of his books although the blurb wouldn't have appealed to me on its own. Conventions run Thursday to Sunday and a group of us who mostly knew each other online arranged to go out for dinner on the Sunday night - Lee Child came along (perhaps with another author) and picked up the bill for dinner for 15 people - about $700 US dollars (at the then exchange rate still over £400). What a kind man. I bought his first Jack Reacher on the journey home though haven't read that one yet.

BecauseImWorthIt · 28/03/2008 22:15

havalina - I 'released' that book into our Quiche book club!

I don't think it's one of his best, but the reason for choosing that one was that it's his first.

Female characters in other books aren't quite so weak/available!

havalina · 28/03/2008 21:56

I read killing floor as part of a book club on mn (must go and comment on thread actually). The whole killing 8 men with little finger thing put me off slightly, also the fact that the main female in the book rarely appeared without getting her knickers off. But the story was okish, just wondering if that was one of his weaker books, or am I not likely to appreciate the rest?

tribpot · 28/03/2008 19:17

Asda has the new one for £9.87! Woot!

Swipe left for the next trending thread