when Amazon sucks …

I love Amazon. Their model is the future of retail.

And Amazon almost always works. It’s amazing.

But when I recently bought a hiking guidebook it wouldn’t download to my Kindle Paperwhite. Weird.

Quite quickly Amazon responded. Confirming that they suck. ☹️

HELP … another Connelly book

I’m addicted.

This is one of the good ones. Both Harry Bosch and the Lincoln Lawyer.

One only wants to find the truth, the other reasonable doubt about the truth.

The Crossing (Harry Bosch, #18; Mickey Haller, #6; Harry Bosch Universe, #27) was published 2015.

Click PLAY or watch it on YouTube.

14th Harry Bosch novel – 9 Dragons

9 Dragons (2009) is the 14th novel in the Harry Bosch series … by American crime author Michael Connelly.

The novel is partly set in Hong Kong, where Bosch’s daughter Maddie and ex-wife Eleanor Wish live. The main plot involves Maddie being kidnapped by a Chinese Triad …

Still hooked, I immediately went on to The Crossing (2015).

 

I’m hooked on Michael Connelly

Seems I have no interest in reading any other author.

The Black Box (2012) is still good, but the weakest of the series of Michael Connelly’s books I’ve read so far.

I’m carrying on with his Harry Bosch books, however. I’m hooked.

I keep track on where I am in his chronology by tracking the date of his daughter.

I’m hooked on Michael Connelly books

Easily available on audio from libraries, I’ve ended up listening to several Connelly books in series.

Most recent – The Reversal (2010)

In this one his original hero, Harry Bosch, works a case with Lincoln Lawyer Michael “Mickey” Haller, his half-brother.

You get the best of both worlds.

Some fans are saying this author is getting better and better over time. I’ll read his most recent books first.

Lincoln Lawyer McConaughey with Michael Connelly

Michael Connelly – The Drop

The Drop (2011) is the 24th novel by American crime author Michael Connelly, and the fifteenth novel featuring Los Angeles Police Department detective Harry Bosch.  …

Wow. This is one great book. Better than the other two Connelly books I’ve read.

Michael Connelly

“The Drop” is one of those Harry Bosch books that starts with a bang and stays strong all the way through. …

NY Times review

The Wrong Side of Goodbye by Michael Connelly

Only my second Michael Connelly book, I’m impressed.

The Wrong Side Of Goodbye is the 29th novel by American crime author Michael Connelly, and the nineteenth novel featuring Los Angeles Police Department detective Harry Bosch. It was published in 2016. …

I loved Titus Welliver as Bosch in the TV series. The character in the book is just as good.

Folks at goodreads love the book. It’s rated 4.35 / 5.00.

Streamlined clean storytelling. An excellent plot.

This book features Bosch’s paternal half-brother Mickey Haller, the Lincoln Lawyer. Haller is even more entertaining than Bosch.

Read the NY Times review.

I’ll definitely be reading more Michael Connelly.

Bourne Identity film better than the book

Like most people, I love the Bourne films, even the one without Matt Damon.

Click PLAY or watch a trailer for the first on YouTube. (2002)

I finally got around to reading the first — The Bourne Identity, a 1980 spy fiction thriller. Not good. I found the pacing WAY TOO SLOW. Every conversation far too dramatic.

I gave up around half way through.

Robert Ludlum died in 2001. But the Bourne books / films continued without him.  Eric Van Lustbader now writes the sequels.

Modern Romance by Aziz Ansari

Happily single … that’s my story. And I’m sticking with it. 🙂

I heard something about this book. Downloaded it on a whim.

Modern Romance: An Investigation is a research book written by American actor and stand-up comedian Aziz Ansari and American sociologist and New York University professor Eric Klinenberg.

The book was published in 2015 and provides research information exploring the change in romantic society that has occurred in the past decade. …

As a selfish guy who almost never went to any effort to chase any woman I’d seem to be the last person to be interested in modern dating.

Yet I really enjoyed the book. The dating scene in 2015 sounds hilariously dreadful.

I learned a lot from the book.

On the upside, it seems to me that Tinder has got the right model for quickly getting introduced to people who might be a tiny percentage of 1% interested in going out with you.

 

Jack Reacher – Small Wars


Like many, I’ve read ALL the Jack Reacher novels and try to wait patiently for the next.

Author Lee Childs, however, has published some Reacher short stories / novellas.

Small Wars” is set in 1989. Like all Reacher stories, it’s excellent. In this one older brother, Colonel Joe Reacher, works at the Pentagon. Jack Reacher calls on  the always entertaining Sergeant Frances Neagley for help.

It’s only 44 pages long on Kindle.