Thursday, May 6, 2010

It's magic!

About time I recommended a book - I've been so busy tweaking my own novel these past weeks that I've not done much reading. But I'm about to wrap up the first thriller/suspense novel in a while to satisfy me.

The author is Jeffrey Deaver, who I believe lives in my old home town of Chapel Hill, NC. He's best known for his book (thanks to the movie) The Bone Collector. Frankly, I thought the movie awful, which may be why it took me a while to get to one of his novels. I'm glad I did, though, and the novel I heartily recommend is THE VANISHED MAN.

One of the interesting aspects to me is the magic, illusionism and prestidigitation, that reoccurs throughout the novel. Fun and fascinating, and good tale.

4 comments:

  1. You work during the day as a prosecutor. You are working on a novel. You have children. And you still have time to read?

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  2. Yes, is the short answer.
    Writing is a craft like any other. I hear people say "Oh, I plan to write a novel some day" and I want to choke them. I guess they could string 75k words together but it'd never get published. Part of learning a craft is studying other practitioners, and so I read every night to see what Connelly, Crais, Deaver, et al are doing.
    Plus, I go to bed early. :)

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  3. Jeffery Deaver is one of my favourite authors, have you read the rest of his Rhyme books? In one of his later books he introduces a spin off character Kathryn Dance, her books are very interesting to read too.

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  4. I've only read the one, actually, but I intend to get back to him. I'm reading The Rules of Silence by David Lindsey right now, which (so far) is utterly awesome.

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