Listening to The Affair by Lee Child
February 14, 2012 at 4:52 PM | Posted in Books | 2 CommentsTags: Archie Bunker, Basil Rathbone, Dick Hill, Jack Reacher, Sherlock Holmes
My library gave me a choice, did I want to read the latest Jack Reacher novel, The Affair, by Lee Child or did I want to listen to it read by Dick Hill?
As Reacher would say, “Not close.”
Child writes the Reacher novels in the first person voice of Jack Reacher, the former Army MP and hellacious do-gooder and Dick Hill, who has read over 400 audio books is Reacher in the same way that Basil Rathbone will always be Sherlock Holmes and Carroll O’Connor, Archie Bunker.
The novel itself? It is a prequel, the last detail that Reacher had prior to leaving service. Now, the Reacher novels are not my usual cup of java but they all have that magic “hook” and a formidable main character and in sound, the fantastic characterization of Dick Hill.
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Tom,
The Reacher novels have been my guilty pleasure for quite a while. I read non-fiction almost exclusively and moved to these when I ran out of Louis L’Amour novels. Thanks so much for your comments. I’ll pick this up (on the Kindle~).
Comment by wordsrangtrue— February 16, 2012 #
Ah, I didn’t know that you were a Reacher man! Please let me know what you think of Hill’s reading.
How goes the world?
Comment by tommackey— February 17, 2012 #