I have finished the James Patterson book at last, in fact I have finished two of his books both in the same series.
I know how come I have managed to read two books so fast?
I think it's down to the fact that both books were written by Maxine Paetro 1st and then James then edits them and adds his bits to the story.
If I am wrong then the way the books with Maxine as the second author reads are totally different when the book is just written by James Patterson.
Any way the book that I have just read are 7th Heaven and 8th Confession both are credited as being written by James Patterson and Maxine Paetro, both were a good read in that the stories were good and the main characters world and lives changed during the course of the books.
Showing posts with label James Patterson. Show all posts
Showing posts with label James Patterson. Show all posts
28 September, 2010
19 September, 2010
Reading and Stuff
Just started to read yet another James Patterson book,in fact in the reading pile I have one more to read and it turns out to be the next one in the series of the book I am reading, which just shows how far I am in my reading or that James Patterson is writing and releasing the books far to quickly for me to keep up with, not sure which is the right answer to that one.
So I have to say with this current book I have found it much easier to read and that I find after only a short while that I am on page 141 of the book!
The story is good, and James Patterson's co-author is Maxine Paetro, who has co-author several books with James.
Now I did a bit of research and have found out that normally the 1st draft of the book is written by the co-author and then the final version by James, so I think it is noticeable that the books by different co-authors do read differently, well at least to me.
Is the book any good I think so, but until I have read the whole book I will not know.
The name of the book that I am reading is 7th Heaven and is part of the women's murder club series.
So I have to say with this current book I have found it much easier to read and that I find after only a short while that I am on page 141 of the book!
The story is good, and James Patterson's co-author is Maxine Paetro, who has co-author several books with James.
Now I did a bit of research and have found out that normally the 1st draft of the book is written by the co-author and then the final version by James, so I think it is noticeable that the books by different co-authors do read differently, well at least to me.
Is the book any good I think so, but until I have read the whole book I will not know.
The name of the book that I am reading is 7th Heaven and is part of the women's murder club series.
18 September, 2010
Read
I have just finished a book by a well known author that for me to read has been a bit of a struggle. Now normally when I read this authors work its an easy read and the book is great fun and I have a good time and it's a good story, I could also say that I felt that I had been entertained as well, which is the whole point for me of reading a book in the first place.
For some reason, with this particular book by this author that just did not happen, strange that.
The author is James Patterson, yes that bloke who seams to release a book a month or at least it feels like it, looking at the local book shop shelf.
The book that has caused all the problems for me is called You've been warned its also written by Howard Roughan now how much of the book did James write? not an easy question to answer, but I have read somewhere that James may have come up with some of the ideas and that the other guy writes it, then James edits and adds his bits to it. I don't know if that is true or not
I just did not get on with this book, I think in the end it took me more than a year to finish it, in fact I read a lot of other books instead of completing this one.
One of the problems for me, with this book is that the main character who is a young woman, I just did not like and early in the book I just wanted to shout out at her and tell her to grow up and stop acting like a (insert favorite nasty words here) I am, that's how under my skin she got to me.
So for me this book was not fun but for you out there your experience may be very different.
For some reason, with this particular book by this author that just did not happen, strange that.
The author is James Patterson, yes that bloke who seams to release a book a month or at least it feels like it, looking at the local book shop shelf.
The book that has caused all the problems for me is called You've been warned its also written by Howard Roughan now how much of the book did James write? not an easy question to answer, but I have read somewhere that James may have come up with some of the ideas and that the other guy writes it, then James edits and adds his bits to it. I don't know if that is true or not
I just did not get on with this book, I think in the end it took me more than a year to finish it, in fact I read a lot of other books instead of completing this one.
One of the problems for me, with this book is that the main character who is a young woman, I just did not like and early in the book I just wanted to shout out at her and tell her to grow up and stop acting like a (insert favorite nasty words here) I am, that's how under my skin she got to me.
So for me this book was not fun but for you out there your experience may be very different.
Perhaps what I should do is go as see if there are any reviews and see what others thought of the book, it may be that I am completely in the wrong and that its a great book it might also be that it really is not a great book, who knows?
If I do look at some reviews of this book I shall update this blog post and put some comments on what I found.
28 August, 2010
Reading
Have read some more books that I have not spoken about here yet, so here goes The first is by James Patterson and is called Run for your life, now as entertainment this book mostly worked for me, but and this is a big but, for me the end of the book and the bad guy did not work for the very simple reason that the bad guy suddenly changed the way they they though and acted, through most of the book the bad guy was always intelligent and acted in a methodical manner, then you get to the last few chapters and he starts acting like a completely different person.
Why?
May be the deadline for the book came to soon or the word count had to be kept to, I don't know all I know is that the book could have been so much more.
The other book the I have read cost me nothing as its an out of copyright book that I read on my Itouch.
The book is called The Ultimate Weapon and its by John W Campbell, who if you are into your science fiction and the golden age of science fiction was the editor of Astounding Science Fiction in the 40-60's he introduced to the world authors such as Asimov and Helien.
The book was written back in the early 1930's and it shows in how its written and the science in it, but as for something to read it was great.
Why?
May be the deadline for the book came to soon or the word count had to be kept to, I don't know all I know is that the book could have been so much more.
The other book the I have read cost me nothing as its an out of copyright book that I read on my Itouch.
The book is called The Ultimate Weapon and its by John W Campbell, who if you are into your science fiction and the golden age of science fiction was the editor of Astounding Science Fiction in the 40-60's he introduced to the world authors such as Asimov and Helien.
The book was written back in the early 1930's and it shows in how its written and the science in it, but as for something to read it was great.
23 March, 2010
Read
I have finally finished the book that I spoke about the other day, it really is an easy read. But and there is a but, the book feels like its a draft for a longer book, it felt to me as if the author had run out of time and the manuscript was just handed in as it was. The because of who the author is the editor did not do a full edit on the book and demand changes.
Which I think is a real pity as I am sure the book could have been much better.
Before I forget the book that I have just read is called The Murder of King Tut by James Patterson and Martin Dugard.
I think that the book needed more time and also to be longer, that way part 2 of the book could have been better presented and done in such a way that this reader did not get the impression that this was a peace that had already been written and just the names changed, why I get that impression I just don't know but that's what I got. The parts that are set in the present might have been better presented as author notes or something like that, but the way that they have been present really jar's with the rest of the book.
As for how James and martin have decided there was a crime just does not ring true, when James describes a murder in his other books you get told far more about how and why, but in this book he does not do that, I found it was something that I missed.
Was I entertained?
The answer is yes, but I also came away feeling a bit cheated, like I had not been served the best meal or story that I think and know that James can deliver.
Anyway that what I thought your ideas and that may be different.
Which I think is a real pity as I am sure the book could have been much better.
Before I forget the book that I have just read is called The Murder of King Tut by James Patterson and Martin Dugard.
I think that the book needed more time and also to be longer, that way part 2 of the book could have been better presented and done in such a way that this reader did not get the impression that this was a peace that had already been written and just the names changed, why I get that impression I just don't know but that's what I got. The parts that are set in the present might have been better presented as author notes or something like that, but the way that they have been present really jar's with the rest of the book.
As for how James and martin have decided there was a crime just does not ring true, when James describes a murder in his other books you get told far more about how and why, but in this book he does not do that, I found it was something that I missed.
Was I entertained?
The answer is yes, but I also came away feeling a bit cheated, like I had not been served the best meal or story that I think and know that James can deliver.
Anyway that what I thought your ideas and that may be different.
21 March, 2010
Books
I have just picked up a book by James Patterson that I thought he would never write, and I must admit that so far its been a good read, its a while since I have read one of his books and the thing that for me always takes a while to get used to is just how short the chapters are in his books. I must admit that the short chapters do not get in the way of the story it's just something that he appears to do. It certainly has not hurt his book sales from what I can make out.
Any way the name of the book that I never expected him to right is The murder of King Tut, I know it threw me as-well.
but the story is good the way that he is telling it is very different to what i expected but so far it appears to work for me, your mileage may be different.
So I shall carry on reading it just to see how he is going to pull off this subject in his style.
Am I being entertained? you bet ye.
Any way the name of the book that I never expected him to right is The murder of King Tut, I know it threw me as-well.
but the story is good the way that he is telling it is very different to what i expected but so far it appears to work for me, your mileage may be different.
So I shall carry on reading it just to see how he is going to pull off this subject in his style.
Am I being entertained? you bet ye.
27 February, 2008
What I am reading
Current books that I am reading all at the same time are,
Weaver Stephen Baxter, this is part 4 of the time tapestry series and is very and as I have said and written else where would make a great radio show, only 40 grand a series of six programmes and I would have Dirk Maggs to adapt and produce and direct them, value for money or what?
Book two then is 6th Target by James Patterson, this is part of the Woman's murder club but for some reason its not right, I am not sure what I mean by that statement but its as if it was ruched in some way, maybe the problem is that James is producing too many books going for quantity and not quality I just don't know. I will hold judgement till when I complete the book.
The last book that I am reading is the very first book in the new cop series by Peter James called Dead Simple, now I found this series and read the latest book first and have worked my way back to this the very first book in the series, and so far its great.
As I have said above in the Stephen Baxter bit this is also a series of books that I think Dirk Maggs would be great on , as he has never done hard crime novels some it would give him a chance to stretch his creative mussels and just see what he can do. I think with Dirk's great timing and choice of good actors each book would be a great 6 part series, not that the BBC does this sort of stuff any more, they seem to have gone down the route of cheap low cost productions with nothing to stretch both the listener and the production crew.
If I had the money I would pay for these shows to be produced even if they never got an airing on national radio at least they would have been produced by one of the best radio directors/producers in the last 20 years.
Weaver Stephen Baxter, this is part 4 of the time tapestry series and is very and as I have said and written else where would make a great radio show, only 40 grand a series of six programmes and I would have Dirk Maggs to adapt and produce and direct them, value for money or what?
Book two then is 6th Target by James Patterson, this is part of the Woman's murder club but for some reason its not right, I am not sure what I mean by that statement but its as if it was ruched in some way, maybe the problem is that James is producing too many books going for quantity and not quality I just don't know. I will hold judgement till when I complete the book.
The last book that I am reading is the very first book in the new cop series by Peter James called Dead Simple, now I found this series and read the latest book first and have worked my way back to this the very first book in the series, and so far its great.
As I have said above in the Stephen Baxter bit this is also a series of books that I think Dirk Maggs would be great on , as he has never done hard crime novels some it would give him a chance to stretch his creative mussels and just see what he can do. I think with Dirk's great timing and choice of good actors each book would be a great 6 part series, not that the BBC does this sort of stuff any more, they seem to have gone down the route of cheap low cost productions with nothing to stretch both the listener and the production crew.
If I had the money I would pay for these shows to be produced even if they never got an airing on national radio at least they would have been produced by one of the best radio directors/producers in the last 20 years.
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