tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-418420954850727676.post425847384745478717..comments2023-05-25T16:47:25.504-05:00Comments on Books Are For Squares: Finished: "Mr Monk Goes to Germany" by Lee GoldbergGerard Saylorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00289822422163685990noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-418420954850727676.post-28506617052836557342009-09-01T08:24:58.313-05:002009-09-01T08:24:58.313-05:00Correct. My thoughts are likely leftover from the...Correct. My thoughts are likely leftover from the lousy, uninspired paperback tie-ins I would find on the shelves in middle-school. <br /><br />Your author list includes some of my favorites and readily proves your point. (Not to mention Christa Faust.) I suppose I would list your brother there but I have not read any <i>Burn Notice</i> novels yet.Gerard Saylorhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00289822422163685990noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-418420954850727676.post-48077389794032035252009-08-31T22:07:16.036-05:002009-08-31T22:07:16.036-05:00Thanks for the great review of my book, I am glad ...Thanks for the great review of my book, I am glad that you enjoyed it. But I must take issue with your opening line...<br /><br />"I have always had a negative opinion of novels that are tie-ins to movies or television. I've always figured they were commissioned hack jobs aimed at reluctant readers and imbeciles."<br /><br />I don't know how you came to that assumption. There are so many terrific tie-ins out there, written by some of the best novelists in the business have written tie-ins and novelizations, including Theodore Sturgeon, John Jakes, Kingsley Amis, Stuart Kaminsky, Martin Cruz Smith, Kevin J. Anderson, John Harvey, Lawrence Block, Max Allan Collins, Rhys Bowen, John Gardner, Jim Thompson, Orson Scott Card, Leslie Charteris, Arthur C. Clarke, Peter David, Ian Fleming, Alan Dean Foster, John Gardner, Elizabeth Hand, Stuart Kaminsky, David Morrell, Robert B. Parker, and Robert Silverberg to name just a few. Of course there are some bad tie-ins...but there are also a lot of bad original novels, too.<br /><br />LeeLee Goldberghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13442268370192897461noreply@blogger.com