Five Minute Review: Dark Sacred Night by Michael Connelly

I have been reading this guy’s books for as long as I can remember. Here is Michael Connelly’s latest: Dark, Sacred Night.
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[@JBFire97]

Agree about the editing! Thank you for the review.

[@writerlywitterings]

Cheers, Paul!

[@olegkolbasenko]

It is interesting to read the work of this author. And by the way, you have a great chair that helps to make real and natural videos! Cheers my friend!

[@writerlywitterings]

Many thanks, Oleg.A great chair, and a delightful hound to operate it!

[@olegkolbasenko]

@@writerlywitterings My pleasure, my friend. For many years I have loved your wonderful humour!

[@carolinefiller4898]

I am a big fan of Connelly's- Bosch is, along with Rankin's Rebus and Paretsky's Warshawski top notch in my book, flawed but really good people.

[@writerlywitterings]

Many thanks, Caroline!

[@milesknightestrada3286]

Would you consider making an Inspirational Authors video on him?

[@writerlywitterings]

Yes, I think he deserves it! I'll see what I can do, Miles. Many thanks!

[@milesknightestrada3286]

My pleasure.

[@milesknightestrada3286]

My pleasure.

[@MrLJolley06]

How many Renée ballard books are there?

[@writerlywitterings]

Ah, afraid I don't know, but if you go to the Michael Connelly website I'll bet they're all listed!

[@MrLJolley06]

@@writerlywitterings were the renee ballard books any good?

[@writerlywitterings]

The ones I've read have been excellent - but I haven't read a bad or boring Connelly book! @@MrLJolley06

[@vajidalishah3595]

First person narrative?

[@writerlywitterings]

Apologies, I replied to this yesterday, but KZbin has lost my response. First person means it is told as "I", "my", "we" all through: so, "I walked into the room and saw at once that I was alone. When we had left the car..." Third person means someone else, "he", "they", so "he walked into the room and saw at once that he was alone. When they had left the car ..."

[@vajidalishah3595]

Which is a good starting point to wrtie from? I'm currently writing a novel that's why

[@DAGDRUM53]

Angels Flight is great, the only disappointing Bosch is The Burning Room, not bad by any other mystery writer's standards but not up to Connelly's. The Ballard books are fine too but it's time for Michael to revisit a couple of Bosch's older cases with Jerry Edgar while they were in RHD to enable a younger Harry (Connelly ages him in real time) to duke it out with some street thugs, before Eleanor Wish and Maddie. Besides Angels Flight the very best Bosch books are The Black Echo, City of Bones, Lost Light and The Crossing, the rest are merely excellent. I've never read another author who maintained such an unbelievably high batting average, and non-Bosch books like Chasing the Dime, Void Moon, Poet AND Scarecrow, and most of the Lincoln Lawyers left me dead chuffed too.

[@writerlywitterings]

Yes, I think ageing in real time is a lot better for the writer and the author. It keeps us realistic, since we're ageing at the same rate. Much though I love Ed McBain, the characters staying the same age for 30-40 years is a little odd!

[@DAGDRUM53]

@@writerlywitterings So true, but Connelly should return to Bosch's younger days IMHO, he's a fossil in the Ballard novels.

[@LucasKellis]

Question at the bottom if you want to skip introducing myself I came to the channel for fountain pens, stayed for writing!! Hi there, I'm currently a third year political science major but literature writing and reading is soundly my next favorite academic pursuit. I take as many literature classes as I can for my electives and can't get enough. I personally like to try and write short stories in the style of H.P. Lovecraft I am especially impressed with how he can make in interesting story using "Tell don't show" instead of "Show don't tell"(I promise this is leading to a question haha). First year I took an early American Lit survey class (where we dip our toes into a wide variety of authors). We had in our reading Nature by Emerson, and I was truly enamored by transcendentalist writers. Fast forward two years of being lazy! This past June I decided to get down to it and be disciplined in the idea that I think of myself as "well read". So, picking up my first year survey book decided to read Walden, which conveniently was fully included in my anthology volume from the class. The chapter "Reading" really stuck a chord with me. (The question is coming soon) I distinctly remember from what one can from only one reading. Thoerau talked about how we [students] learn to read but as babies, and are trained to read but simple children's books and most of us [students] are doomed to never puncture the surface of knowledge held within the volumes of the classics. This is a paraphrase but he talks about the importance of reading the classics especially like Plato's Republic or Homer's Iliad. Im trying to beef up my reading skill this summer and so far have read:Walden, Henry Thoreau, Master & Commander, Patrick O' Brian I am currently reading a modern translation of the Canterbury Tales translated by Nevil Coghill, this book, we had covered only a few of the shorter stories in my other literature survey class for early English lit. I have Ben Franklin's autobiography on the table. My method is to have one fiction and one non fiction to read at one time so when I get bored of one I pick up the other. I'm about a third of the way through with the Canterbury Tales and haven't gotten bored yet haha. Now the question! How does one determine outside of -The Classics- what are the good books to read? I'm mainly going off of Thoreau and sticking to the classics. As much as I am reading for pleasure I am also trying to exercise my brain to do exceptionally well at university my junior and senior years. I feel every time overwhelmed at the book store by the amount of books being written and just look over titles like The Republic, Metamorphosis, The Iliad, The Divine Comedies, Don Quixote. I do enjoy the idea of reading -The Classics- when I get to them in due course, but am also aware that I would be missing out on many good books but only reading hundreds or thousand year old books. (Not to mention supporting current authors!!) :) Thanks, Lucas

[@writerlywitterings]

Hi, Lucas, and apologies for taking a while. It's been busy recently! I have to admit, I have been stretching my mind to work out whether there is any good guide about what is a 'good' book to read. Obviously the classics, by which I mean literature's classics, rather than classical Roman or Greek books - Dickens, Trollope, Mark Twain, PG Wodehouse. Why novels of this sort? Because the best writing will make you think. These novels will all put you into the minds of other people. I believe that it is vital that people learn how others think, behave and react to stimuli. Which is also, naturally, why I believe that crime books tend to be not just entertainment, but have a responsibility to explain why people behave as they do. The Greek/Roman classics are fascinating, because by reading Plato and Aristotle, Thucydides and Caesar, you will learn much more about the development of political institutions, about history, and about the mistakes of the ancients. They are fascinating and well worth reading ... but they can be rather dry! I recall reading Caesar's History of the Conquest of Gaul when I was 11 or so, and it wasn't the easiest or lightest read, although it was fascinating. Something I did discover some years ago was a series of short reads by Penguin, which had a series of 20 50 page booklets that each gave edited highlights of Plato and the other great philosophers. However, I don't know whether that would still be on sale. So, in short, my own selection would be to read classical novels that have stood the test of time, because I find them infinitely more readable than the real classics! Hope that's some help!