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A new Reacher novel is on the way!
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'Gone Tomorrow' will be published in the next few weeks - I've got my copy on order. Can't wait!
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I read 'Killing Floor' first about four years agio.
I was browsing in Manchester Library, and it was on sale for 20p because the cover was missing, so I picked it up, and I've read them in order - the last three as they came out.
It's high time someone started to film these stories - I always visualise Kevin Spacey as Reacher, even though he is probably not physically big enough - that's just the image the stories give me.
I was browsing in Manchester Library, and it was on sale for 20p because the cover was missing, so I picked it up, and I've read them in order - the last three as they came out.
It's high time someone started to film these stories - I always visualise Kevin Spacey as Reacher, even though he is probably not physically big enough - that's just the image the stories give me.
I think I read an article that Lee Child had sold the rights of 'One Shot' to made into a film and he wouldn't have objections to Hugh Jackman being cast as Reacher.
It's interesting that you visualise Kevin Spacey when reading the book - I think I've made up my own image as no one film star could reach his level!!
It's interesting that you visualise Kevin Spacey when reading the book - I think I've made up my own image as no one film star could reach his level!!
There is a physical description of Jack Reacher in pretty well every book about him by Lee Child.
Here's a typical one from Bad Luck and Trouble...
"Six-five, two-fifty, hands as big as frozen turkeys...forearms like Frankenstein's monster."
And, later in the same book...
"His arms were like a gorilla's only longer and thicker."
Elsewhere, one of his women friends describes him as being "like a six and a half foot condom stuffed with walnuts", which Child actually �borrowed' from a book by Clive Anderson, of all people!
There is not a shred of doubt what this guy looks like in the author's mind. Of course, film directors - and readers - are not obliged to stick to a writer's depiction of any given character, but there can be only a handful of actors around who fit the bill as far as Lee Child is concerned. Tom Cruise, for example, just ain't Jack Reacher!
I look forward to the new one, too, Andy.
Here's a typical one from Bad Luck and Trouble...
"Six-five, two-fifty, hands as big as frozen turkeys...forearms like Frankenstein's monster."
And, later in the same book...
"His arms were like a gorilla's only longer and thicker."
Elsewhere, one of his women friends describes him as being "like a six and a half foot condom stuffed with walnuts", which Child actually �borrowed' from a book by Clive Anderson, of all people!
There is not a shred of doubt what this guy looks like in the author's mind. Of course, film directors - and readers - are not obliged to stick to a writer's depiction of any given character, but there can be only a handful of actors around who fit the bill as far as Lee Child is concerned. Tom Cruise, for example, just ain't Jack Reacher!
I look forward to the new one, too, Andy.
Far me it from me to correct you QM, but the quote about 'a condom full of walnuts' was actually made by Clive James, when talking about Arnold Shwarzenegger.
Mr James has a similarly evocative turn of phrase when talking about the visage of the late Barbara Cartland, he described her white face and mascara'd eyes as "...looking likt two tiny crows that had crashed into a chalk cliff face ..."
Would that I could write half as well ....
Mr James has a similarly evocative turn of phrase when talking about the visage of the late Barbara Cartland, he described her white face and mascara'd eyes as "...looking likt two tiny crows that had crashed into a chalk cliff face ..."
Would that I could write half as well ....
Oh, for goodness' sake! Thanks for the correction, Andy. I remembered the 'Clive' and, for some reason, the 'Anderson' just flowed onto the page without apparently even crossing the surface of my brain! Sorry.
The point is, though, that now Arnie is out of the game, it's hard to imagine just who would meet Lee Child's approval as his hero.
The point is, though, that now Arnie is out of the game, it's hard to imagine just who would meet Lee Child's approval as his hero.
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