Magnum Mania!

Hey gang,

Just noticed there is a new Jesse Stone book coming out soon. Its called Night and Day and will be released Feb 24th 2009.

The more books there are the more of a chance we will keep seeing TS playing the role!

Maybe one of us should write a Magnum book and see if he wil do a movie based on it? Hey, we can dream can't we?

I ordered that one last week, thought it`ll come out Feb 2. I am out of reading material

I finished this new one ("Night and Day") last week. It was okay.

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Thank GAWD!!! Jesse finally dumps Jen in this one at the end. It was worth reading the book just to have him FINALLY do that!

golf

I finally got around to reading this one. It's a pretty lightweight affair, but a fun read nonetheless.

This is mainly due to the fact that it's nearly impossible not to picture Selleck in the role at this point. My favorite entries are also the ones that capture the small town feel of Paradise and feature a relatively simple crime. (And the latest "villain" may be the simplest one yet! )


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golfmobile wrote:Thank GAWD!!! Jesse finally dumps Jen in this one at the end. It was worth reading the book just to have him FINALLY do that!

No ****!

Thank God Parker may have finally heard the cries to ditch this annoying character forever. I'm all for a character carrying a torch, but there's a limit to how far it should be taken. After her little stunt in High Profile, she should've been booted out of Paradise for good.

Agatha,

AMEN!!!!!

golf

Seems like everybody hates her.

Shermy, I always had trouble reading the women he dated were older than Jesse Stone, otherwise I pictured TS as Jesse all the time.
(Note: 'otherwise' is the wrong word in this sentence, but can`t think of the right one now, Golf?? Help, please

Carmen,

I don't have a problem with your use of "otherwise" in that sentence. It makes perfect sense. You could easily substitute "other than that" or "except for that choice," and the sense of what you are saying is quite clear. I don't recall Jesse's always dating older women -- he sure can't do that in the TV movies, though, can he? "They" never put the older guy with an older gal -- except maybe that one movie with Jack Nicholson and Diane Keaton, but I think that's pretty much the exception. His previous romantic hit was with Helen Hunt, and she's certainly much younger. Speaking of HH, wasn't she kicked around as being the one to play Sunny Randall? I wouldn't mind seeing her in that role playing opposite TS as JS.

golf

Carmen wrote:Shermy, I always had trouble reading the women he dated were older than Jesse Stone, otherwise I pictured TS as Jesse all the time.

Yeah, there's also the occasional mention of Stone being a much younger guy, but I still picture Magnum anyway.

It almost feel like Parker now writes the character as if Selleck were delivering the dialogue.

I read (past tense - pronounce "red" not "reed") the books pre-TS' playing the character, so I had a hard time initially putting TS into that character. In my opinion, he plays the character a lot differently than I had imagined the character. When I read the books, I still "see" "my" Jesse Stone, and when I watch the movies, it's like a totally different story. I find TS' interpretation much gloomier than I picture the character being. Not that it's wrong, it's just different. I can like both, but in my mind they are separate.

JMO

golf

Jesse Stone (Selleck) is a New England police chief investigating a ... Having said all that, this adaptation of the Parker book is exceptionally well done.
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mighty milk

I just finished Split Image, the latest and presumably final Jesse Stone book. It was a little sad to realize that Parker didn't live to see it published.

Ironically, it works rather well as a concluding chapter to both the Jesse Stone and Sunny Randall series. (Although moreso for the latter.)

Jesse Stone is alive! Michael Brandman who collaborated with the late Robert B. Parker for the Jesse Stone movies is writing new Jesse Stone novels.
The next one will be out on September 13th.

http://www.amazon.com/Robert-Parkers-Ki ... rd_title_0