October pleasure reading

This month I finished Heat Rises by “Richard Castle” and The Appeal by John Grisham.  Both books were enjoyable and I got through them really quickly.  A lot of that is because I was at Ethicon on Raleigh on Monday and Tuesday last week so I had a lot of opportunities to read because I don’t have access to the Internet while I’m there.  I finished them both over the weekend.

Anyway, Heat Rises is loosely based around the show Castle, so that automatically is a point in its favor.  This was one was a bit different because the roles were reversed from how they usually are in the show.  For example, in the show, one of them is seriously injured but in the book the other was seriously injured.  I’m sure it’ll turn out alright in the end, but it’s interesting to draw some connections between the show and the books.  I also like the sense of humor of whoever is this ghost writer that takes on the name of the author on Castle.  He had one quip about George Michael’s song “Careless Whisper” and another scene where some agent tells the author in the book that he “sorta looks like that guy who roamed outer space everybody’s so crazy about” to which the character in the book replied, “Malcolm Reynolds?”.  First of all, I LOVE Firefly, and secondly, the actor who plays the author character in the show is the same actor who played Mal Reynolds (Nathan Fillion).  Just a little humor for the hardcore fans I guess.

Now, I’m still entertained by the John Grisham books, but I’m noticing the theme that none of them ever ends well.  Not a single one.  You want that execution stayed?  No such luck.  You want that juror to survive?  Well too bad, she dies.  You want that appeal denied?  Today’s not your day.  I've started reading The Client and I feel like I should just go ahead and assume they never discover the body they’re looking for and the young protagonist is murdered by mobsters.  It’s not worth hoping it’ll turn out well.