Do y'all have any recommendations for paperback action adventure/thrillers? I want to get some books for a cousin who's having surgery. He likes Tom Clancy, Robert Ludlum, Clive Cussler and John D. MacDonald. He likes history. He's also seemed to like the various popular mystery writers I've thrown at him like Sue Grafton. I'm just out of ideas.
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Ginger - Jun 23, 2005 5:17:26 am PDT #7982 of 10002
"It didn't taste good. It tasted soooo horrible. It tasted like....a vodka martini." - Matilda
§ ita § - Jun 23, 2005 5:20:56 am PDT #7983 of 10002
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
How about James Patterson, Ginger? The nursery rhyme titled ones. And maybe some Modesty Blaise novels?
Polter-Cow - Jun 23, 2005 5:31:01 am PDT #7984 of 10002
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
I've enjoyed the James Patterson. Also the Mary Higgins Clark.
§ ita § - Jun 23, 2005 5:32:12 am PDT #7985 of 10002
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Be careful with the Patterson, though. There are some execrable ones that have come out in the last five years. Easy enough to spot, since they feature winged children.
Matt the Bruins fan - Jun 23, 2005 5:36:36 am PDT #7986 of 10002
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Robert W. Chambers wrote some fairly well-received romances about fien de siecle Paris and the artists's community there in addition to his better known horror works. In fact, the second half of The King in Yellow is actually those sort of stories rather than the creepy fantastic stuff.
Polter-Cow - Jun 23, 2005 5:38:21 am PDT #7987 of 10002
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
I don't think I've read one since The Midnight Club, at which I became really annoyed by what I saw as the author lying to me for the sake of a plot twist.
But Along Came a Spider and Kiss the Girls are good stuff. Oh! William Diehl's Primal Fear and Reign in Hell are good too. I think there might have been a third one too, but I forget the title.
§ ita § - Jun 23, 2005 5:41:34 am PDT #7988 of 10002
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
I don't think I've read one since The Midnight Club, at which I became really annoyed by what I saw as the author lying to me for the sake of a plot twist.
Yes! Not that I remember the lie or the twist, but it was cheap and shoddy and plain rude. I had that same feeling.
Midnight Club, IIRC is a novel he wrote ages ago, and I'm guessing got printed on the strength of his not-sucky stuff.
Polter-Cow - Jun 23, 2005 5:56:23 am PDT #7989 of 10002
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
Yes! Not that I remember the lie or the twist, but it was cheap and shoddy and plain rude. I had that same feeling.
Basically, there's a scene where he describes one of the characters coming out of a plane, someone who's supposed to be dead or something. He uses his name and everything. And because he's writing in third-person omniscient (he can't be in subjective because the main character's not around), that description is assumed to be true. In the end, though, we find out that it was some guy dressed up as him or cloned as him or using fancy technological masks or something and it pissed me off. You could argue that it wasn't meant to be taken as truth, but merely the observations of a bystander, but that's not the way it felt, given the style of the writing.
Jim - Jun 23, 2005 6:01:34 am PDT #7990 of 10002
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Early Frederick Forsyth - Day of the Jackal, The Odessa File, The Dogs Of War - are about as good as that Clancy genre gets.
erikaj - Jun 23, 2005 6:38:45 am PDT #7991 of 10002
Always Anti-fascist!
Espionage? Leonard, Le Carre Crime fiction/ mystery Lehane , Pelecanos(And not just cause he likes carrots)