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Any Lee Child fans?

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Sidge · 23/03/2008 21:42

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

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Pillow · 27/03/2008 23:27

And £10 in Tesco. According to my Mum. For whom I bought it. For Easter. For £17.99 in Waterstones.

Pillow · 27/03/2008 23:25

I'm sorry, Hammy, are you saying that you find this man attractive?

BecauseImWorthIt · 27/03/2008 23:24
jura · 27/03/2008 23:23

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wheresthehamster · 27/03/2008 23:22

I'm trying to blank him from my mind but it's difficult

BecauseImWorthIt · 27/03/2008 23:20

Definitely not him - he looks like he should be drinking something social with my parents.

Pillow · 27/03/2008 23:12

OK Hammy I have checked and its a blazer now and not a leather jacket but it used to be a leather jacket and OMG WTF are you thinking???????

BecauseImWorthIt · 27/03/2008 23:08

and

[swoon]

Pillow · 27/03/2008 23:07

Oh no please hammy he is awful in that leather jacket.

BecauseImWorthIt there is a whole new one!!!

wheresthehamster · 27/03/2008 23:04

'Nothing to Lose' is the latest. Don't panic!

wheresthehamster · 27/03/2008 23:02

Does anyone feel their fantasy version of Jack sometimes gets blurred with Lee Child's photo inside the front cover? I still picture a great bod but the face goes a bit weak and watery until I can banish the photo from my thoughts

BecauseImWorthIt · 27/03/2008 22:59

Or - sad thought - is it just that 'Bad Luck and Trouble' is out in paperback? I've already read that.

Please tell me there's another one out?

BecauseImWorthIt · 27/03/2008 22:58

OMG - I didn't know there was a new one out! I'm a huge fan.

I don't want anyone to make a film of them because there could never be anyone who could live up to my mind's interpretation of Jack.

And so few people have ever heard of them, I'm really stupidly pleased that this thread exists!

bran · 27/03/2008 22:54

I've always imagined that the Mark Harmon character in NCIS is who Jack Reacher would have grown into if he hadn't left his job.

Pillow · 27/03/2008 22:50

Noooo to HF and KC. He would have to be an unknown imo.

I like Win. And Myron's parents.

wheresthehamster · 27/03/2008 22:46

I haven't read In The Woods yet. So it's not Myron? That's a shame - I like the banter at the office.

wheresthehamster · 27/03/2008 22:44

Yes, I imagine him as a young Harrison Ford. Although Kevin Costner would be good (KC fan here )

bran · 27/03/2008 22:43

Has anyone read Christopher Brookmyre? I've just finished Quite Ugly One Morning and it was fast-moving and adreneline-filled, I liked it in the way that I liked the first Lee Child that I'd ever read. In fact, it was a swap on Read It Swap It for a Lee Child book.

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Pillow · 27/03/2008 22:40

Oh I never heard about the Stephanie Plum plans. Could never have worked imo. Also, is it me or are they a bit harder to read lately?? You can't spin that choice between two men thing over so many books.

Mystic River was Dennis Lehane's first non "Angie and Patrick" book. And the consensus is that it was a great book and an amazing film and that he "came of age" as a writer etc etc etc. Whatever. I miss the Angie and Patrick stuff. I HATE when authors you love who write series you love do one-off novels out of the series and then go away on that tangent.

turquoise · 27/03/2008 22:36

Did Dennis Lehane write 'Mystic River'? That was a good adaptation.

I don't think I'd like a film of these though, same as I'm realy glad nothing came of the TV movie plans for Stephanie Plum.

turquoise · 27/03/2008 22:34

I don't want anyone too overmuscled ( ignore that bit in one of them about him looking like a condom filled with walnuts).

I see him more as a young Harrison Ford, in the early INdiana Jones days.

Love the whole lone wolf thing, with nothing but his toothbrush.

Pillow · 27/03/2008 22:33

Do you know i think they are in discussions with Lee Child on that very point and I have to say there is no-one who could do it and I think I would hate it. I loved the Dennis Lehane "Angie and Patrick" books, and was a bit two-minded about the Ben Affleck film they made of one of them. And it was the missing child one, and then M McCann happened, and they canned the release. I think sometimes a film can never ever be as good as your imagination.

procrastinatingbollyknickers · 27/03/2008 22:28

Glad to find some other fans. I discovered these last year, and literally could not put them down - I made the kids' dinner with one hand so I could keep turning pages. Not too badly written, but the plots are just the best.

Jack Reacher is the most ridiculously testosterone-filled hero ever - and I adore him. I have wondered many times who on earth could play him if they ever filmed the books. Any suggestions?

Pillow · 27/03/2008 22:27

Turquoise, we gave them to Oxfam and ended up buying them again. Sometimes from Oxfam. Dh v strict about space, but has finally relented on the Lee Child's, where he has introduced me to the concept of re-reading (had never re-read a book in my life before). In the Woods not the best Harlan ever, but still Harlan. I miss Myron Bolitar.

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