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MICHAEL CONNELLY - HARRY BOSCH FANS

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Michael Connelly's new book "The Dark Hours" is due to be released November 9th. Harry Bosch and Detective Renee Ballard are the protagonists. Reportedly the LAPD detective duo evolve in Connelley's outstanding 36th novel. It sounds like Connelly is on his game.


Richard
 
Please be aware that the Harry Bosch books and the TV series "Bosch" are very different from each other. There is some overlap but not a lot.

I really like both but the books are different.
 
I love all of Michael Connelly's books, and his latest is on my Christmas Wish List! I really enjoyed the Bosch series on Amazon Prime Video.

Dori
 
I really enjoyed the Bosch series on Netflix ( or was it amazon). Never read any of the books. I like when the film version mirrors the book. I remember reading The Shining (Steven King) and being very scared/excited while waiting in line to see the movie. Until the person behind me talking very loudly says “yeah the movie is different than the book because so and so dies”. She didn’t say so and so....she said the name and I was so upset...really ruined the movie experience...The person who died in the movie was the true hero in the book.
 
Bill4728 said:
Please be aware that the Harry Bosch books and the TV series "Bosch" are very different from each other. There is some overlap but not a lot.

I really like both but the books are different.
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I find the very much the same, excellent portrayal of Harry
 
"The Dark Hours" is on sale today at BookBub.com
For $4.99 (normally $14.99 for eBook edition) available for a short time on multiple eBook platforms. If you enjoy Bosch & Renee Ballard, It's a great read.


Richard
 
I just checked it out of the library within the hour
 
Good book but more about Renee Ballard with Bosch as a supporting character
 
rapmarks said:
Good book but more about Renee Ballard with Bosch as a supporting character
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It's a bit of a rabbit trail I'm creating with this comment, but it bums me out that Harry Bosch is now an old man and--while younger detectives like Renee Ballard appreciate his brain power--his physical stamina and the generally physical nature of his job are being written out or written down to acknowledge this fact. I like the supporting cast of characters of earlier Connelly novels--J. Edgar, Crate and Barrel, Renee Ballard, and many others, but the genius of Connelly's books (and his greatest character, by far) is Harry Bosch. Other series Connelly has written (Mickey Haller, Jack McEvoy, and now perhaps Ballard as well) just don't carry the dynamism of the Harry Bosch books, at least in my opinion.

Rex Stout created the timeless characters of private detective Nero Wolfe and his inimitable investigator, Archie Goodwin. The genius of the Wolfe books is that neither Wolfe nor Goodwin--nor anyone else in the series--get older. Yes, the storylines evolve from the 1930s when Stout began writing the series and all the way through to the early 70s before Stout died. But the reason the books are still widely read is that Wolfe and Goodwin are just as vibrant and highly capable in the last novels as they were in the first--so much so, in fact, that Robert Goldsborough later took up the mantle and authored another 16 Nero Wolfe novels after Stout died. Sadly, that won't be possible with Harry Bosch.
 
WalnutBaron said:
It's a bit of a rabbit trail I'm creating with this comment, but it bums me out that Harry Bosch is now an old man and--while younger detectives like Renee Ballard appreciate his brain power--his physical stamina and the generally physical nature of his job are being written out or written down to acknowledge this fact. I like the supporting cast of characters of earlier Connelly novels--J. Edgar, Crate and Barrel, Renee Ballard, and many others, but the genius of Connelly's books (and his greatest character, by far) is Harry Bosch. Other series Connelly has written (Mickey Haller, Jack McEvoy, and now perhaps Ballard as well) just don't carry the dynamism of the Harry Bosch books, at least in my opinion.

Rex Stout created the timeless characters of private detective Nero Wolfe and his inimitable investigator, Archie Goodwin. The genius of the Wolfe books is that neither Wolfe nor Goodwin--nor anyone else in the series--get older. Yes, the storylines evolve from the 1930s when Stout began writing the series and all the way through to the early 70s before Stout died. But the reason the books are still widely read is that Wolfe and Goodwin are just as vibrant and highly capable in the last novels as they were in the first--so much so, in fact, that Robert Goldsborough later took up the mantle and authored another 16 Nero Wolfe novels after Stout died. Sadly, that won't be possible with Harry Bosch.
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Harry Bosch is old. I am a young Viet Nam Veteran, having served 1972-1973. I am definitely younger than Harry, and I am old. One of the great thing about Connelly novels is the current status of LA incorporated into plot of his books. Harry is aging out as a character. It is like losing a friend. But it is reality.

The character played by Titus Welliver is a veteran from the Desert Storm campaign. He has a different military background. He is a great character and I love the series. But he is not the original Harry Bosch.
 
WalnutBaron said:
It's a bit of a rabbit trail I'm creating with this comment, but it bums me out that Harry Bosch is now an old man and--while younger detectives like Renee Ballard appreciate his brain power--his physical stamina and the generally physical nature of his job are being written out or written down to acknowledge this fact. I like the supporting cast of characters of earlier Connelly novels--J. Edgar, Crate and Barrel, Renee Ballard, and many others, but the genius of Connelly's books (and his greatest character, by far) is Harry Bosch. Other series Connelly has written (Mickey Haller, Jack McEvoy, and now perhaps Ballard as well) just don't carry the dynamism of the Harry Bosch books, at least in my opinion.

Rex Stout created the timeless characters of private detective Nero Wolfe and his inimitable investigator, Archie Goodwin. The genius of the Wolfe books is that neither Wolfe nor Goodwin--nor anyone else in the series--get older. Yes, the storylines evolve from the 1930s when Stout began writing the series and all the way through to the early 70s before Stout died. But the reason the books are still widely read is that Wolfe and Goodwin are just as vibrant and highly capable in the last novels as they were in the first--so much so, in fact, that Robert Goldsborough later took up the mantle and authored another 16 Nero Wolfe novels after Stout died. Sadly, that won't be possible with Harry Bosch.
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All Connelly has to do is set some new books back when Harry was younger. He almost killed Harry off in the last book. Totally unnecessary
 
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