Stephen Hunter's Dead Zero

[fightingquaker13]

Damn Sam!!!  Late this afternoon to mid evening - Where did you take your sped reddin course?

Off topic but worth mentioning. I needed three extra English credits to  graduate high school. There was this weird course called "advanced reading". No idea what it was, but it fit my schedule and seemed easy so I took it. It was part SAT prep on the reading comprehension parts as well as the logic puzzels. The other half though, was speed reading. The idea is you look at whole pargraphs and read diagonally in a X shaped pattern.Then you pause and comprehend and move on to the next one Damned if it doesn't work and was about the most valuable HS class I ever took. Downside? I can burn through a $10 novel in a couple of hours.
FQ13 who could have used a class in advanced spelling I know. I'll check out the books. I'm always looking for a good read.

[tombogan03884]

FQ, Stick with the Swagger novels, the others are pretty much "formula" action/ adventure".
Dan Brown is the same way, his books about Robert Jordan ("DaVinci Code","Angel's and Demons", and "The Lost Symbol" )are interesting, but his other 2 are much less so.

[Snake45]

FQ, Stick with the Swagger novels, the others are pretty much "formula" action/ adventure".
Dan Brown is the same way, his books about Robert Jordan ("DaVinci Code","Angel's and Demons", and "The Lost Symbol" )are interesting, but his other 2 are much less so.

Oh, I dunno. I thought Day Before Midnight was a ripping good story, even with no Swaggers in it. Spanish Gambit, not so much. Dirty White Boys was pretty good but I read that before I got into the whole Swagger canon, and might not like it as much now.  Master Sniper was good except I just couldn't buy into the idea that an MP44 would make a suitable 300-400 yard sniper rifle. 

Brown's book about the fossil entertained me just fine. Was his other one about computers, or some kind of supercomputer? If so, I liked that one, too. If not, I've got him mixed up with somebody else's books.  It's hell gettin' old sometimes, but the alternative is even worse. 

[tombogan03884]

Snake, I'm not saying they are "Bad", (except "Spanish Gambit", even with the reasonably accurate Spanish Civil war setting it took me 2 tries to get through that   ) just not as good as their "signature" series.

[Snake45]

I could have sworn there was one familiar name in Day Before Midnight, but I can't recall right now who it was. 

Wikipedia to the rescue!

Time to Hunt, the third of the Bob Lee Swagger novels, includes a small role for Dick Puller, a main character in The Day Before Midnight.

Dick Puller! Who else but Hunter could get away with a name like that! 

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[Teresa Heilevang]

Steven Hunter books are my favorites..
Marshal is reading it now..never looks up and is totally engrossed in it.
 so .. of course I say.. "what you want for supper"..
I get......." uh huh...sure hon.. thats fine.."

I say.." I'm getting ready to go outside and do something..you coming in a while?"
he says.." uh-huh.. ok.."

 I say.. " I've got on something soft and pretty.."
 he mumbles.." uh-huh.. thats nice"

I say.." I have whipped cream and strawberries... and I'm going to bed... are you interested?"
 he barely mumbles without looking up .. .. " uh-huh.. sure.. thats real nice hon"..

sighhhhhhhhhhhhhh!!
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[Snake45]

Teresa, count your blessings. At least you're competing with Stephen Hunter, and not Rachel Hunter. 

[Marshal Halloway]

Well, I am reading as fast as I can.... 

[MikeBjerum]

Well, I am reading as fast as I can.... 

QUIT  TYPING!!!

Your wife is in the bedroom with strawberries and whipped cream, and you set down the book to talk to us