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Payndz posted:A quick bump to note that airport fictionmeister Dan Brown has a new book, Inferno (of Dante's fame), out in May. Yes, Robert "I've got to get to a library, fast!" Langdon will once again be blandly haring around Europe, doubtless deciphering in minutes codes and puzzles that have confounded all other minds for centuries, and banging another forgettable female lead. Disappointingly, though, it seems unlikely this novel will feature any giant squids. Maybe I just have horrid taste in books, but I'll read it anyway. I started reading all the Langdon books and damnit I'll finish all the Langdon books. Maybe that's why I still read and enjoy Clancy's new novels... I need another new author to hook me on something new. Wait, I should probably read your books. They're now next on my list. iNteg fucked around with this message at 21:42 on Jan 15, 2013 |
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http://www.amazon.com/review/RADQDJ5DJ0KPY/ref=cm_cr_pr_cmt?ie=UTF8&ASIN=0385504225&linkCode=&nodeID=&tag=#wasThisHelpful But will Dan Brown's latest get better one star reviews than the Lost Symbol? Will anyone buy it? It's been a decade since the Da Vinci Code. In that time the guy has only published one book that no-one liked.
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Jan 15, 2013 22:43
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Payndz posted:None of mine do, although that's an omission I'll obviously have to correct at some point. Brown's The Lost Symbol has one, though. When does your next book come out?
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Jan 16, 2013 05:45
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Agentdark posted:When does your next book come out?
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Jan 16, 2013 09:39
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Payndz posted:March 28th in the UK; haven't been told the US date yet, but probably summer. The next Nina & Eddie book, which I'm currently writing, is Jan 2014. Oh cool. I have not yet disliked any of your books, so this should be exciting. Also, finally got around to reading "A Wanted Man", and I enjoyed it. Felt different then most reacher books though
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Jan 17, 2013 05:37
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Hey Payndz, as someone who writes big goofy shoot-em-ups do you keep track of the number of explosions and deaths in your books.
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Jan 17, 2013 06:31
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High Warlord Zog posted:Hey Payndz, as someone who writes big goofy shoot-em-ups do you keep track of the number of explosions and deaths in your books.
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Jan 17, 2013 10:02
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Agentdark posted:Oh cool. I have not yet disliked any of your books, so this should be exciting. I'd say that the pacing in it was not too different from Echo Burning which was also a little low on the rear end-kicking but higher on intrigue and mystery.
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Jan 17, 2013 21:49
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I have read quite a few of the Reacher books lately and I still think my favourite is Without Fail, mostly because I liked Neagley. I like the relationship that she has with Reacher, she seems to ground him because she is just as quick and just as smart as him, perhaps smarter. I kind of wish Child would bring back some of the other characters from earlier books as well, even some of the bit characters. I still want to know what happened to the old black jazz couple from the beginning of Without Fail, I thought there was going to be a story there. I got Wanted Man from the library and didn't really enjoy it, it didn't seem like a Reacher novel to me. Child has another Reacher novel out later this year, I hope it is more true to the tone he has set with most of the other Reacher novels. jet sanchEz fucked around with this message at 01:38 on Jan 18, 2013 |
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Jan 18, 2013 01:33
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I read A Wanted Man randomly, as I was over at my parent's house one day and picked it up out of boredom. I found it entertaining, and so my father loaned me the one with the militia in South Dakota. If found that one even more entertaining, and so I figured I could kill the series in my downtime. I started at Killing Floor and just went forward consuming them with a vengeance until I get to Running Blind. That one pissed me off with the left field awful hypnosis killer. I ended up jumping around and picked Nothing to Lose based solely on the wikipedia blurb. This one was really good up until what seems to be a disappointing ending. Are there any others I should avoid? What do you guys recommend as his best Reacher books?
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hatelull posted:I read A Wanted Man randomly, as I was over at my parent's house one day and picked it up out of boredom. I found it entertaining, and so my father loaned me the one with the militia in South Dakota. If found that one even more entertaining, and so I figured I could kill the series in my downtime. I started at Killing Floor and just went forward consuming them with a vengeance until I get to Running Blind. That one pissed me off with the left field awful hypnosis killer. I ended up jumping around and picked Nothing to Lose based solely on the wikipedia blurb. This one was really good up until what seems to be a disappointing ending. Are there any others I should avoid? What do you guys recommend as his best Reacher books? I wrote an article - Top 10 Jack Reacher Books(No spoilers within it either) - although I should note I really liked Running Blind and absolutely hated Nothing To Lose  Either way I'd say Persuader is the best by far. I re-read books a lot and I've read most Reacher books probably 3-5 times, and I've read Persuader at least 10 times.
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What did you hate about Nothing to Lose? I think Reacher is pretty fun when he's in random small town in the middle of nowhere, or dropped into a group of unseemly folk. Running Blind I enjoyed from the mystery perspective until the reveal and then I really got annoyed with all the misdirection and those italicized "mind of the killer" passages. For the record, I really liked Nothing to Lose up until the end. I have probably a paragraph left, and I'm already underwhelmed after a fun build up.
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I usually like that premise too, and I think the premise of that book was great - but I just found it so dull, and full of ludicrous situations - even for Reacher. Like the whole town coming out to block him from getting in.
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I finished Running Blind a couple of weeks ago and I saw the reveal coming a mile away, which disappointed me as it seemed so...stupid. But I did like some of the periphery characters, Harper most of all. I think the UK title of The Visitor is much better than the American one and would have been a lot creepier, I only found out about the different titles after I had finished the book. As I mentioned above, the Reacher books that work for me are the books that have a strong cast of supporting or periphery characters. It is a little silly that they almost always seem to be super hot women but I guess Child understands his target audience and he gives them what they want, fist fights and beautiful dames. Has anyone seen the Jack Reacher movie? What did you think? If they do a sequel, I would like it to be 61 Hours as I felt it was pretty original and had a lot of good characters.
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jet sanchEz posted:
Yeah, it was surprisingly good. Tom Cruise might be a nutcase but he usually does a damned fine job acting, and this was no exception. Followed the book quite closely, and was overall nicely done. Got my stamp of approval, as someone who has read all the Reacher books. I was a bit concerned about how they were dealing with Reacher not being a good driver when it looked like there would be a fair bit of car chasing, but they had Cruise look so uncomfortable during the chase (in stark contrast to the more relaxed bad guys they kept cutting to) and the driving was not all that stellar, so that got a pass from me.
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WeaponGradeSadness posted:You might want to check out Alex Berenson's John Wells books. I just want to thank you for this recommendation, I'm on book 6 in the series already and they're definitely some of the better airport fiction/braincandy books I've read in the last year or so.
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skipdogg posted:I just want to thank you for this recommendation, I'm on book 6 in the series already and they're definitely some of the better airport fiction/braincandy books I've read in the last year or so. Awesome, I'm glad you liked them! Book 7, The Midnight Ranger, is coming out in mid-February and I'm pretty excited for it; it's going to be set in East Africa, so I'm pretty intrigued to see how that will turn out--the other books were all about infiltration, and I don't see a 1/4 Arab 3/4 white guy infiltrating a Somali group as easily as he did the Middle Eastern terrorists. It will be interesting to see how that plays out.
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I'll make sure to grab that. Anything else you can recommend in a similar vein. I'm current on Mitch Rapp and Scott Harvath series which are the most similar ones that I can think of.
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skipdogg posted:I'll make sure to grab that. Anything else you can recommend in a similar vein. I'm current on Mitch Rapp and Scott Harvath series which are the most similar ones that I can think of. Only other thing I can think of is Stephen Coonts, whose Jake Grafton/Tommy Carmellini novels are pretty good. Although I'd recommend staying away from The Disciple, the most recent one, which was absolutely horrendous despite the rest of the series being pretty solid. Other than that I mostly read Clancy/Bond type war-based technothrillers for airport fiction so that's all I can think of, spy-wise.
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Has anyone read Barry Eisler? Looking for a new series and wanted to see about the John Rain books.
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I've read Rain Fall and it was pretty good.
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I'm in the middle of Rogue Clone by Stephen Kent, and it's pretty good so far. Sort of a early Tom Clancy vibe, but little technobabble or jingoism. Set in 2500 too so there are space battles and stuff too. It's the second book in a trilogy, but I didn't read the first, just borrowed this from the laowai bar here in Xiamen.
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skipdogg posted:I'll make sure to grab that. Anything else you can recommend in a similar vein. I'm current on Mitch Rapp and Scott Harvath series which are the most similar ones that I can think of. Ben Coes and Dalton Fury both have interesting milporn series out now.
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sky shark posted:Dalton Fury (BTW, my new airport thriller's out on Thursday.  )
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My latest favourite in the airport fiction "lone awesome ex-SAS killer" genre is Stephen Leather. I picked up his first book and just blew through it. Loved it and highly recommended if you like the Nick Stone/Mitch Rapp etc books.
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JOE MOTHERFUCKING LEDGER HAS RETURNED IN EXTINCTION MACHINE!!!!! So far... it's better than the last one with the crazy vampires with nukes (which again, dumb loving move not putting that on the back of the book Maberry). I'm about halfway through it, and he's already gotten laid, beaten up like 40 people, had wild monkey sex with a chick, killed like 5 uber bad guys, kicked another dude so hard in the balls he broke his pelvis and is currently romancing some other lady. It's not QUITE as batshit as the genetically engineered monkey people from book... 3? I think, but it's up there. IT'S GOT ALIENS! or, well, more to the point it's got alien tech and ufos and whatnot. I have to admit, even with all the crazy going on, it's weird that it seems to be moving pretty slow. I am in the middle of JOE MOTHERFUCKING LEDGER being hunted by EVIL CRAZY MEN IN BLACK POSSIBLE ALIEN HUMAN HYBRIDS IN THE WOODS OF I FORGET WHERE but I'm pretty sure he's about to pull some crazy Bruce Lee ninja poo poo and kill em all before making sweet love to whatshertits down by the culvert they are hiding in. So far, so good. It's... it's loving brain candy. It's not really something you need to pay attention to, but holy poo poo this guy must have talked to so many crazy rear end fringe fanatic people to get this much backstory to aliens and ufos that I feel he deserves some sort of award just for entering that world of crazy and making it fun to read about without going full blown lizard people ruling the planet insane.
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Welp, finished it up a few mins ago. It was a hell of a lot better than the last book. I still can't forgive him for not just loving putting VAMPIRES WITH NUKES on the back jacket. When you have that great/horrible of a premise, you gotta sack up and run with it. Anyway, book was awesome. poo poo blows up, people get killmurdered, crazy super tech causes crazy supertech problems and solutions, and JOE MOTHERFUCKING LEDGER breaks at least 3 pelvises (pelvii?) in the book. Seriously, what the gently caress is up with the broken pelvis thing in books I am reading lately? poo poo GETS ALL CRAY CRAY as my friend put it when he finished reading it and sent me his review via text. It kinda slowed down a little about midway through the book as they developed a backstory, but then it ramps up into full tilt bugshit again and all is well. I'd recommend it. It's probably an 8 on the Rielly scale. Not as many !!!!! but a shitload of "the warrior smiled and attacked and kickflipped backwards while slashing downwards in a perfect arc to send a blood spray directly at eyes of the next guy running at me" kind of moments.
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Eight Riellys! Oh that's a must read.
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Speaking of Reilly's.. http://blog.booktopia.com.au/2013/03/12/matthew-reilly-reveals-details-of-new-book/ quote:THE TOURNAMENT
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Oh that's gonna own. I am looking forward to some loving intense italicized violence with swords when people SLAM their blades together so hard they shatter and stab everyone in the eyeballs, right before a chapter break when a sword is slicing through the air at our protagonist's neck. The next chapter will start with "BUT THEIR NECK WASN'T THERE, BECAUSE ...." and yep.
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Apr 19, 2013 18:40
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Will there be diagrams and stick figures to help me visualise the action?
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I bet he is kicking himself that he had Legolas and Gimli in his modern day books instead of this one.
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Pwnstar posted:I bet he is kicking himself that he had Legolas and Gimli in his modern day books instead of this one. Just like Book turned into Book II, so will Legolas and Gimli turn into their ancestors. If he wants it to happen, he's gonna make it happen. 
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The villain will be descended from Cain and the hero will be descended from Abel.
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So I've never been big into those books BY TOM CLANCY with _________ books ever since accidentally picking up one of those Net Force books years ago and then getting mad when it was lovely, but as it turns out, one of my professors wrote Against All Enemies. I really like the guy, and I think I'm going to pick it up, because I'm curious how he writes (and I'm also taking a long plane trip next week). I've never read a work of fiction published by somebody I personally know, much less one that's been in displays that I walk past every time I go to buy a magazine at an airport bookstore, and for whatever reason the idea really intrigues me. Anybody read it? If so, how is it?
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Scuzzywuffit posted:So I've never been big into those books BY TOM CLANCY with _________ books ever since accidentally picking up one of those Net Force books years ago and then getting mad when it was lovely, but as it turns out, one of my professors wrote Against All Enemies. I really like the guy, and I think I'm going to pick it up, because I'm curious how he writes (and I'm also taking a long plane trip next week). I've never read a work of fiction published by somebody I personally know, much less one that's been in displays that I walk past every time I go to buy a magazine at an airport bookstore, and for whatever reason the idea really intrigues me. It's not too bad
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