Betty by Gary Delainey and Gerry Rasmussen for November 23, 2019

It’s a great hobby.

Izzat the Jack Creature series?

My wife introduced me to the Jack Reacher novels & I became “engrossed in the series”. I’m now on a very long waiting list for the latest book, at the local library. It has all the elements of fine literature (plot, character, symbolism, structure, suspense, pathos, etc.), with the added bonus of a big guy roaming around beating up bad guys. No wonder It’s a popular series. (Shame about the miscasting in the movie.)

It’s only “being engrossed in a series” the first time through. If you go back at any time and do it again, it’s bingeing.

Will they mention ‘Jack Reacher’ by name?

Ah, good old That Author. I really love his That Character series.

Over twenty books! Is he reading Helen Sweetstory?

I own paperbacks of about 130 of the books (out of 145) of the Destroyer series that features Remo Williams and Chiun his teacher.I also have nearly all the books of Robert Heinlein.All in all over 1000 paperbacks.

Hubby is a great sci-fi fan, and introduced me to David Weber’s Safehold series. Long books (600 pages) but an absolutely fascinating saga – a mix of history and sci-fi. And I’m not at all fond of sci-fi as a rule.

Lee Child and David Baldacci have similar characters, Jack Reacher and John Puller. John Sandford has two compelling characters, Lucas Davenport and Virgil Flowers. Action and police procedurals.

I just finished the latest book, Blue Moon

Pratchett’s disk world has that kind of cannon, although it is more about the world than of any one character (who can go from main focus to cameo and anywhere in between) – sadly a little weak at the end the sicker he got (and I still wonder if part of Raising Steam was finished by someone else because some of the characters didn’t ring true to what I knew of them ) , but I have several books that I read until they disintegrated. An author you truly love to read is a blessing and no mistake :)

My son’s fiance` put my Stephen King hardcovers on the bottom rail of the basement staircase instead of a bookcase. Filled the whole 10’ length plus.

I’m currently into book nineteen of CJ Cherryh’s Foreigner series. It is definitely binge reading.

No, Lucas Rabidport

That reminds me of when I binge-read the Chet and Bernie books by “Spencer Quinn.”

I’m thinking Clive Cussler and Dirk Pitt.

Must be Lee Child. He included my late brother-in-law in one of his more recent books…