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Just as a heads up, there is no John McClane in this book. The main character is Joe Leland.
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Sure. :) I've also like to read the rest of the book in the Joe Leland series. Have you started yet?
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Matthew wrote: "Today sometime probably - trying to de-Christmas the house and it is taking forever! (but, Nothing Lasts Forever! ;) )"Today is my de-Christmasing the house too.
Matthew wrote: ""He'll see you at the terminal" Ha! Leland is a bad ass - as is to be expected!"Yes, he is. This is why I want to read The Detective.
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Yes, the first chapter does but it isn't the same since he hasn't landed yet. That part will happen and it will the very similar to the movie. In the first chapter we also learn that Leland is visiting his daughter and two grandchildren. We also learn of Kathi Logan. I felt 'similar but different' all the way through the book.
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Yup, but I'm skimming through the chapters before posting to make sure I don't spoil anything for you.I just couldn't help myself. Don't worry take your time. We are here to discuss the book. :)
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I have other books to read this month too. These are the books I have planned for January.Finishing Up:
The Divine Comedy
The Illuminatus! Trilogy
Tampa
"All the Real Indians Died Off": And 20 Other Myths About Native Americans
Going to Start:
The Pearl
The Age of Innocence
The Gunslinger - reread
Odd Thomas - reread
The Handmaid's Tale
One Hundred Years of Solitude
Ivanhoe
Karen Memory
Chocolat
The Second Sex
Democracy in America
These two are over the next 3 months:
The Three Musketeers
The Recognitions
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The Recognitions is pretty decent so far.
The Illuminatus! Trilogy has really long chapters. I'm enjoying it but the chapters are kind of long. I heard it was an awesome book. Lots of time travel and things happening. I'm going to take a little longer in finishing it up because it's such a long book.
Good to hear about The Recognitions.
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LOL, remember it was written in the 70's. Isn't it funny about those types of references. I like the technology references too. That's really dating things.
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The speech about terrorists sounds like Harrison Ford in Air Force One.
You know it's funny, I should have found out by google translate what they are saying. I thought about it then decided not to because I'd have to type it all in. What are you taking about Anton Gruber? It's Anton "little Tony the red" Gruber. Doesn't that nickname sound kind of Italian?
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I am kind of surprised by the extensive life introspection Leland goes through every few pages. You get lots of action and suddenly . . . deep thoughts.
I totally agree with your that Little Tony isn't that strong of a leader type character. Alan Rickman's character of Gruber was more so. It could be because Rickman was such an awesome actor that he played the character so well, he brought that out. There for sure has a lot more thoughts that Leland is going through. About all kinds of things and how hired he is or how badly he will hurt the following day. There was a lot of that in the end of the book.
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I know! This is why I say it seems so similar but it's just a little different. How far are you?
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The huge difference in this book and the movie (other than names of characters and the other changes) is the internal dialogue of Leland. There is a lot of internal dialogue I just didn't expect however it isn't that off putting, it's just different from what I expected.
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One thing that stood out to me was his introspection on some of the terrorists being females (in the movie, they were all male- no females until Die Hard 3, and then it was just one). I feel like the idea of being concerned about the terrorists being females is a bit antiquated now.
Yes, I read your review. Yeah, that is so different about all the female terrorist in the book. I wonder why they left any female terrorist in the movie. Perhaps it was how our society was in the 80s?
Another thing is the ending about his daughter. I didn't expect that part, also, who knew love cocaine so much.
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Start 2017 off right with Nothing Lasts Forever by Roderick Thorp - the book the movie Die Hard is based on.