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In the foreword to my copy of First Blood, David Morrell writes he chose the name Rambo from the sound of Arthur Rimbaud's name and Rambo apples.

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Also, spoilers! If Taylor Kitsch plays a bad guy in American Assassin (Mitch Rapp/Vince Flynn) and The Terminal List (James Reece/Jack Carr), it becomes harder for me to see how The Terminal List differs from American Assassin.

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I disliked Riker and Troi at first b/c they reminded me of Willard Decker and Ilia from Star Trek: The Motion Picture. Get new ideas, Gene Roddenberry.

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I'm appropriately ending 2021 w/ a Netgalley of @aceatkins' final Spenser continuation, ROBERT B. PARKER'S BYE BYE BABY. Thanks again, @PutnamBooks. Pub date is Jan. 18, 2022.

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I've mentioned disliking the course of Prime Video's Jack Ryan show, but jugging analysis and action, rising to the position of POTUS is what Tom Clancy built into Ryan. By contrast, Lee Child keeps Reacher fairly constant throughout...

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By contrast, Tom Clancy wrote Patriot Games before The Hunt for Red October. Its story takes place before Hunt, but it was published after.

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Anyone know if there will be further continuations of Robert B. Parker's Western series Virgil Cole & Everett Hitch? The first in the series, Appaloosa, was adapted for film by Ed Harris and Robert Knott, which landed Knott the continuation job.

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One issue w/ using the continuation material is losing the cachet of "as Ian Fleming's James Bond." The continuation novels are not as much Ian Fleming's work. Gardner particularly was not allowed to approximate Fleming, not allowed to explore Bond's psyche.

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Favorite book of all time: The Ingenious Gentleman Don Quixote of La Mancha by Miguel de Cervantes

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I review Nelson DeMille's upcoming eighth John Corey novel, THE MAZE: https://t.co/3o0Dw14TKa