Rob’s Comments (group member since Oct 09, 2017)

Rob’s comments from the The Books of Michael Connelly group.

Well I have finished my third reading of this the first Bosch. It's important for fans as it is the first meeting of Bosch and Eleanor and I don't what anyone else thinks but they are so unsuited....they have both large egos and are much too used to living alone...do you agree?

So this is where Bosch meets Eleanor Wish and talk about sparks flying....they are so unsuited each scoring points of the other I am Spartacus comes to mind😀

So I shall start this thread rolling....The biggest shock in the series to me was (view spoiler)[ when Eleanor Wish was assassinated, she had just finished lunch with her x Harry and was about to get in her car when....wham...around the corner came an assassin on a bike and just shot her. I could not believe what I had seen and was really sad to see her sad departure not only for Harry but their daughter Maddie...superb acting from everyone (hide spoiler)]

There are certain moments in both the books and the tv series where there are a number of key and even shock moments....use spoilers when describing them so as not to ruin the pleasure of other members...

Ok 16% in and I am loving it...which is not a surprise. I read it last year and actually only awarded 3 stars for some reason. What I love is getting the back story on Harry and learning about his early life in the army as a tunnel rat in Vietnam. It is interesting to note that the tv series comes forward 20 odd years and instead of Vietnam Harry is an Iraq war vet...

For stormy read story above😀

Just an interesting fact. I now make Harry in his late 60s. He was of course a tunnel rat in Vietnam, however in the Amazon Prime series he is an Iraq vet and that works just as well

I think if you discuss the stormy best to use spoilers. I’m going to reread the The Black Exhi before I write my thoughts.

Me too but there’s something about the physical book.....it’s like a comparison between long playing records and streaming...

Although I have a number of the Bosch novels on kindle I am purchasing the paperback editions The first 2 in the series black echo and black ice have some nice shots of LA

The first Bosch where it all started...

I work in the courts in Bristol and everyday I see both the good and bad in people. I cycle to work each day and recently had both my bikes stolen, with the help of the local police I did retrieve one and replaced the other. The experience left me feeling violated...how dare anyone steal my property, but that is the world we live in....have you had a similar experience?

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Too many to name all in one thread...but let start with one of my fav books of the last year

set in Edinburgh and Paris at the end of the 19th and start of the 20th century the story follows an employee of a piano shop in Edinburgh and his promotion to flag shop store in France's beautiful capital. A truly captivating read talking about issues prevalent to that time, especially having to live with tuberculosis, and a love affair that forms the central theme of the story. William Boyd is in top form in this beautiful read

Have you ever read any UK detective fiction, very different but very enjoyable

Good...it never really got my attention before...welcome Carissa to one of the greatest detectives out there Hieronymus Bosch known to us all as Harry :)

Humans have been assembling in the dark, listening to stories since the invention of language. It is indelibly part of who we are and how we bond with each other. The theatrical experience is a recreation of this primeval gathering, the flames of the campfire replaced by shifting images that are telling the story itself....

"As we watch the film, we are allowed to gaze deeply into the eyes of beautiful, ugly, powerful, scary, interesting people. We invade their space. In daily life, such close access is not often available. The people on screen, however, seem not to know that we are watching them, which makes it even more intoxicating. All it would take would be for them to shift their eyes a few degrees, look into the lens, and we would be found out. But until then we can watch with fascination as thoughts and emotions pass like shadows, storms, and beams of sunlight across their faces....

I love the adaption of Michael Connelly's books with Titus Welliver in the leading role, I really see Bosch when I view Titus

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