Interview with Lee Child.

[Zurdo]

https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...need-to-be

Just what I expected, sounds like the sort of guy to invent Jack Reacher.

[Oh_hunnihunni]

His books are like the savoury munchies we really like but probably eat too much of...

I have started rereading them all, from the beginning.

[Zurdo]

I got lost and don't know which ones I've read anymore. I might start from the beginning again, and do them in order this time.

[Oh_hunnihunni]

I am surprised how many I do not remember reading. The blessing of thirty odd plots I guess, nothing to do with my aged brain cells...

[heisenberg]

i like the reacher books but they’re a bit too descriptive

[Oh_hunnihunni]

Then you would really hate another favourite of mine - CJ Box... He transports me to some really wild places in deepest darkest back country America, with a slightly mad fish and game ranger...

I like a bit of blood and guts. Makes a change from politics.

[Agent_24]

I gave up on him after he was okay with Tom Cruise playing Jack Reacher in the film.

[zqwerty]

"I gave up on him after he was okay with Tom Cruise playing Jack Reacher in the film"

Yes I remember the debate and that people were so disappointed that Tom Cruise was such a little squirt and Jack Reacher was supposed to be large and manly with a voice and body language to match.

[heisenberg]

the guy on the series is a much better fit

[Oh_hunnihunni]

I don't enjoy seeing my paper heroes on screen usually, Reacher was definitely one of those. I found the series one very bland and gave up after the second episode. I dislike Cruise so avoid anything he shows up in. Interestingly though, having devoured the books from first edition to unfinished last, I really fell in love with Game of Thrones, partly because the distance in time between that first immersion in the books and the on screen version was so long, and partly because they were completely different creative works. The books were so much bigger, so much more happened, so many more sub plots, but in the screen version the characters had the players nuances underpinning their written personalities. Differences, clever clever differences.

Sadly, the same did not happen for me with Wheel of Time, the screen production did Robert Jordan no favours. The books were so much better...

Might've been the actors. Might've been the money.

But then blockbusters in either genre are rare and wonderful things.

[heisenberg]

I don't enjoy seeing my paper heroes on screen usually, Reacher was definitely one of those. I found the series one very bland and gave up after the second episode. I dislike Cruise so avoid anything he shows up in. Interestingly though, having devoured the books from first edition to unfinished last, I really fell in love with Game of Thrones, partly because the distance in time between that first immersion in the books and the on screen version was so long, and partly because they were completely different creative works. The books were so much bigger, so much more happened, so many more sub plots, but in the screen version the characters had the players nuances underpinning their written personalities. Differences, clever clever differences.

Sadly, the same did not happen for me with Wheel of Time, the screen production did Robert Jordan no favours. The books were so much better...

Might've been the actors. Might've been the money.

But then blockbusters in either genre are rare and wonderful things.

Vikings is a good watch along with The Last Kingdom

[Oh_hunnihunni]

Yes, I enjoyed both. And The Winter King - Bernard Cornwall writes a fantastic book, he does his research. Uhtred on paper is almost as much fun as that gorgeous man on screen. His Sharpe was pretty good too, paper and screen.

Good acting makes a well written character even better...

Edit - I forgot Marco Polo, the streamed tv series. I loved that too. Except the arsonist birds bit. That was too real.

[Zurdo]

His celebrity crush is either Alice Roberts or Lucy Worsley...me too ! But Alice would make me feel like the dull thug I am....Lucy seems like a lot of fun and I'm sure we could have some giggles together.