Man, I used to wait in anticipation of the new Reacher books. I always had it in hand by the end of release day. I didn't even know this one was out today.

Yeah, the last couple of books (the ones co-written) are pale imitations of the ones that came before. And the ones that came before, as formulaic as they were, all had a certain sense of tense excitement to them.

Something is missing with the new ones, and it’s hard to put a finger on. I still get them and read them all, but it might be close to time to wrap it up.

I bought the previous one out of my local bookstore's clearance section for a few bucks, but I haven't cracked it, because I couldn't even finish "The Sentinel." It was such a joke.

That one’s actually a bit better, but it still reads like “high school kid writes a Reacher novel.”

Woof. No, thanks.

You've hit the nail on the head. My thoughts exactly.

I actually think the two co-written books are a big improvement over the last one that Lee wrote by himself.

My guilty pleasure is the Jack Reacher books. A bit like I used to live the Clive Cussler books.

Like... Not live.. bloody Auto currup

>I’m ruled by my biological clock, which mandates one unshakeable conclusion: nothing of value is ever achieved in the morning. Typically I get up late and spend a couple of hours moving from a comatose state into something resembling human life. Then I’ll start work about 1 or 2 in the afternoon.

As a grad student I used to do this. But as a writer I found it impossible to actually live, write and work this way. Turns out that your body clock can change and that getting up decently early does help.

>I don’t believe in writer’s block. I think it’s a self-indulgent too-precious mystification of what is, after all, a job like anyone else’s. Do nurses get nurse’s block?

On this I agree and disagree. Nurses and other caring professionals get "empathy fatigue". Writers block is a kind of burnout. It is avoidable and it is fixable but it is also a thing.