Tuesday 27 June 2017

A lovely turn of phrase

Just a quickie, but I wanted to share this with folk I know will understand. Let me tell you why I'm devouring the Jack Reacher novels of Lee Child. It's because of writing like this:

They passed through the crossroads hamlet with the school and the gas station and the diner. It whipped backward through the headlight beams, three short seconds end to end.

Cracking stuff: so much better than saying, 'It took three seconds to drive down main street.' The boy from Coventry done good.

5 comments:

  1. I haven't read any of his books yet, but I do like the movies made based on the books.

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  2. I can't bring myself to see the films, Maria, because Reacher is played by tiny Tom Cruise and in the books he is described as 6ft 5in and weighing 250lb.

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    1. Oh I know, I only heard that afterwards though...

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  3. Haven't read the books yet but husband read and enjoyed one for the first time recently.

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    1. Give them a go, Rosemary. I bought three more over the weekend!

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