Lincoln Rhyme

Eternal Padawan · Post by **Eternal Padawan** » Mon May 08, 2006 8:28 am

The new Lincoln Rhyme by Jeffrey Deaver paperback finally came out last week.

If you don't know Lincoln Rhyme, you might remember him from the Movie "The Bone Collector" with Denzel and Angelina Jolie.

Imagine Dr House if he was played by Christopher Reeve crossed with CSI. An irredeemable dickhead quadrapalegic who happens to be the best forensics expert ever. Throw in "plots so twisted, they could hide behind a spiral staircase" and you got some good beach reading. There's been six or seven books so far.

The Bone Collector
The Coffin Dancer
The Empty Chair
The Stone Monkey
The Vanished Man
The Twelfth Card

I realize I'm pretty much the only person who reads books anymore, but i try to encourage reading whenever i can.

jdr3 · Post by **jdr3** » Mon May 08, 2006 9:29 pm

I've read all of those except the Twelfth Card and Bone collector, I think.

Interesting description of Lincoln though...hmph

Eternal Padawan · Post by **Eternal Padawan** » Mon May 08, 2006 9:47 pm

But accurate, no? The guy is a total douchebag to everyone.

Once you've read enough of them you can kinda start seeing the plot twists coming, but for everyone I catch, I miss the bigger one and it blows me away. Like the one in The Stone Monkey. I'm still trying to figure out a way to make that work on the big screen. That would be so cool to pull off.

jjreason · Post by **jjreason** » Mon May 08, 2006 10:41 pm

Completely unrelated: I'm going to start calling my wiener "the stone monkey" in honor of this thread.

anarky · Post by **anarky** » Mon May 08, 2006 10:53 pm

I saw The Bone Collector, didn't realize it was based on a book in a series. A rather good movie, but not one I'd rush out to get on DVD.

Diabolical · Post by **Diabolical** » Tue May 09, 2006 3:43 pm

<blockquote id="quote">quote:<hr height="1" noshade id="quote">Originally posted by Eternal Padawan
 Imagine Dr House if he was played by Christopher Reeve crossed with CSI.<hr height="1" noshade id="quote"></blockquote id="quote">With a description like that I may never read one.

The wife has read a bunch of the Deaver books, with a few of the Rhyme novels. She like James Patterson's Alex Cross novels better I think.

mabudon · Post by **mabudon** » Tue May 09, 2006 4:41 pm

LMAO "stone monkey" you are fucking ridiculous Bro...

Continue, sorry for the drive-by

jjreason · Post by **jjreason** » Wed May 10, 2006 10:39 am

Actually, my first thought was that it did sound like Alex Cross - but then I read the other 99% of the post and realized that they had different jobs. I've read 2 of the Patterson books (at least - the red and blue ones for what that's worth) and they move along pretty well. Maybe I should read The Bone Collector and see how that goes.

Eternal Padawan · Post by **Eternal Padawan** » Fri May 12, 2006 6:48 pm

See, I read Four Blind Mice and couldn't stand the cloying characterization. The only way I got through it was seeing Morgan Freeman in my head. He lends gravitas without even being there. Deaver is much better.

Eternal Padawan · Post by **Eternal Padawan** » Fri May 12, 2006 6:54 pm

Maybe a better description would be if the guy playing Dr House was paralyzed. Not to knock Reeves acting skills or nothing.

And the Movie version of Bone Collector I figured out the killer in the OPENING CREDITS. Seriously. Total let down. And Queen Latifah's character is made up just for the movie. But I saw the movie before I ever picked up any of the books. And I read Bone Collector after I read a few of the others. The books are way better at keeping you guessing. Even Bone Collector had a more involved plot than what they showed in the movie.

Eternal Padawan · Post by **Eternal Padawan** » Thu Jun 14, 2007 1:56 am

Killing time at the airport during a layover, so I went into Hudson and browsing around I discovered Deaver had written another Rhyme book. The Cold Moon is the seventh in the series and marks the first time the bad guy gets away at the end, setting "The Watchmaker" up as an ongoing Nemesis for Lincoln and his team. Again, I thought I had things figured out, and BANG, he switches it up like four more times after that. I figured the killings were going to be some sort clock face laid out over Manhattan with each victim a certain numeral on the clock. But nope, much more complicated than that. He also created a character who looks to be the main protagonist in his next novel. Franchising his own Detectives. Clever.

Rollo Tomassi · Post by **Rollo Tomassi** » Sat May 29, 2010 8:13 pm

More of a Jeffrey Deaver announcement than a Lincoln Rhyme one, but Deaver has just been tapped by Ian Fleming's estate to write new James Bond 007 novels. He's the first American to be chosen. I haven't read any of the Bond books since the John Gardner run back in the 90's. It's strange that they don't keep the original Ian Fleming books in print isn't it?

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