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Mark Billingham - Tom Thorne Series
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Anyone read these novels? i have read the entire series twice now. I find them a really good read.Often funny and does throw in a few shocks every now and then.Thorne is a great main character, at times very unpredictable. The next book is due out sometime this year apparently.
What do you think of the series?:)
What do you think of the series?:)
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Billingham's stand alone novels are good too.
Wouldn't it be a bit boring if he was perfect and wonderful?
I didn't like David Morrissey as Thorne he wasn't at all how I imagined him to be. I pictured him more like Timothy Spall
Really! Though saying that i pictured Thorne not as smooth as David Morrisey. I actually picture him a bit slobbish.
They changed one of the endings on the programme from the book didnt they?
Yeah they did change the ending which is annoying. Still no news if Sky are going to do any more adaptations.
I pictured Thorne a bit slobbish as well. A kind of mixture between Alex Norton, DCI Burke in Taggart in build and look and the scruffiness of Columbo.
That is why I thought of Timothy Spall. Barry from Auf Wiederhezen Pet wearing a suit and it not quite fitting right so he doesn't look smart and tidy. When he speaks he isn;t what some people may see as common, like an Ray Winstone, but also not middle class either. Somewhere inbetween.
And as much as I fancy Aidan Gillen rotten, he was definitely a strange choice to play Phil Hendricks. Dave Holland being black and Brigstocke being a woman seemed strange casting as well.
This dude is like the vision i have in my mind of phil hendricks
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm4534098/?ref_=tt_ov_st
I want Billingham and Stuart MacBride to write a joint novel perhaps with two crimes related with London and Aberdeen. Thorne and McRae in the same book would be amazing. Even a Kindle short story would do.
Definitely. My mental picture was someone a bit like Tosh Lines from "The Bill", for anyone who can remember that far back
I've been reading these in order, and right at the start Thorne gets called "the Weeble" and is described as being a bit, er, bottom-heavy or words to that effect. There's a distinct lack of physical description after that, though.
I have enjoyed these, the plots are interesting and the focus is still mainly on crime and investigation, rather than the personal side. I think MB has got the balance just right here, I've given up on some series because they got too soap-opera for me.
They're also well-written, with the occasional marvellous phrase that captures something perfectly, yet without any sense of "look how clever I am".
True. I'm still waiting for Thorne's affair with Yvonne Kitson though:D
I never watched the TV versions as I knew they'd get the casting wrong. I could see Eddie Izzard doing a good Phil Hendricks.