Does anybody here read Jack Reacher or Mitch Rapp books?

[Glenn B]

I really enjoy both series. Favorite of the two is the Mitch Rapp . We need real people like him, and a good handful of them in this world.

The Reacher series is also quite good, though at times a little difficult to believe... not on the 8mud level, sometimes on the 5-90 level. One of the things he gets spot on, is that NOBODY likes an MP, except a fellow MP. The series does tend to suck you in.

I beleive I have read every book in the above two series. Usually a day and a half, once I get started.

Anybody else read them?

 

[Fred]

All of the Mitch Rapp books, most of the Reacher books. I've read at least one of the Reacher books that I didn't like so much.

 

[Glenn B]

All of the Mitch Rapp books, most of the Reacher books. I've read at least one of the Reacher books that I didn't like so much.

I prefer the Rapp books. The Reacher books, he shifts around between 1st and 3rd person a bit much.

 

[RichP]

I prefer the Rapp books. The Reacher books, he shifts around between 1st and 3rd person a bit much.

I like John Ringo myself....

 

[5-90]

Haven't read Mitch Rapp (same author or different?) but I've been collecting the Reacher novels as I find them. Definitely worth the reading!

One thing Lee Child has said in interviews tho - he shifts between first-person and third-person perspective simply as a storytelling device. Some stories work better from the first person, others from the third.

OK - the Rapp series is by Vince Flynn. Don't know the name, so I'll have to dig around.

Another series with some decent continuity and storytelling would be various Preston Child novels, particularly the "Agent Pendergast" novels (starting with Relic and culminating in a recent "Pendergast Trilogy" explaining most of his past and the highly antagonistic relationship between him and his brother Diogenes Pendergast.) Very well-written series, and does require some suspension of disbelief as well. But, very much worth the reading.

I've been collecting their joint novels as well - but even their solo stuff is worth reading (I recently read Deep Storm, I believe it was, by Lincoln Child.

Preston Child site - http://www.prestonchild.com/

Wiki on Pendergast and "the Pendergast series" - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aloysius_Pendergast (Probably more compleat information on the Preston Child site, but I found this first.)