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How much do gun goofs in books bother you?
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<blockquote data-quote="Lasiter" data-source="post: 2627320" data-attributes="member: 80480"><p>Reacher Book One is full of unforgiveable gun goofs. Lee Child is a lazy writer, a former TV guy. (The first Tom Cruise Reacher movie is pretty good gun-wise.) Michael Connelly (Harry Bosch) makes firearms goofs in every book he writes, but I like his writing otherwise.</p><p>No, I don't think these goofs are okay when 5 minutes on Google or Wikipedia will give you a correct version of your firearm. I write fiction and, "It's Fiction," is not an acceptable excuse to me. Would it be okay for Connelly to write, "Harry Bosch had to make a left turn onto Wilshire. He grabbed his car's circular turning lever and tugged left." ???</p><p>Here's the deal with ex-newspaper journalists and ex-TV guys: One, they start out thinking anyone can write a mystery -- they have little respect for mystery writers. Two, they are usually liberals, liberals who think anyone who owns/uses/understands guns is a knuckle-dragging jerk. So, they take pride in NOT knowing anything about guns. I spoke with an L.A. area forensics guy who knew Connelly. I asked, "Didn't you guys try to help Michael with the gun stuff?" He replied, yes, but Michael wasn't interested in help with guns. Long ago I wrote an article about these gun goofs. You can read a pdf version on my website. Click on the GUNS tomato and read <em>Firearms and Writers.</em></p><p><a href="http://www.jimguigli.com" target="_blank">www.jimguigli.com</a></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Lasiter, post: 2627320, member: 80480"] Reacher Book One is full of unforgiveable gun goofs. Lee Child is a lazy writer, a former TV guy. (The first Tom Cruise Reacher movie is pretty good gun-wise.) Michael Connelly (Harry Bosch) makes firearms goofs in every book he writes, but I like his writing otherwise. No, I don't think these goofs are okay when 5 minutes on Google or Wikipedia will give you a correct version of your firearm. I write fiction and, "It's Fiction," is not an acceptable excuse to me. Would it be okay for Connelly to write, "Harry Bosch had to make a left turn onto Wilshire. He grabbed his car's circular turning lever and tugged left." ??? Here's the deal with ex-newspaper journalists and ex-TV guys: One, they start out thinking anyone can write a mystery -- they have little respect for mystery writers. Two, they are usually liberals, liberals who think anyone who owns/uses/understands guns is a knuckle-dragging jerk. So, they take pride in NOT knowing anything about guns. I spoke with an L.A. area forensics guy who knew Connelly. I asked, "Didn't you guys try to help Michael with the gun stuff?" He replied, yes, but Michael wasn't interested in help with guns. Long ago I wrote an article about these gun goofs. You can read a pdf version on my website. Click on the GUNS tomato and read [I]Firearms and Writers.[/I] [URL="http://www.jimguigli.com"]www.jimguigli.com[/URL] [/QUOTE]
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