Comments on: Remembering Robert B. Parker

By: Dwight Williams

Dwight Williams — Fri, 29 Jan 2010 21:40:30 +0000

Jonathan: Joe Montegna, I believe, was the newer actor in the role.

By: Susan de Guardiola

Susan de Guardiola — Mon, 25 Jan 2010 14:25:59 +0000

I never read any of Parker books, so I can’t speak to that, but I was — and still am — one of the myriad Modesty Blaise fans. I collected the novels starting back in the 1980s and am slowly collecting all the Titan reprints of the strips (very slowly, since once those are collected, there will be no more to be found, and I’m in no hurry to be done). I’ve also dug up some of O’Donnell’s romance novels, written under a pseudonym.

By: jonathan eigen

jonathan eigen — Wed, 20 Jan 2010 23:14:24 +0000

I loved his Spenser novels, though I did not get into the others. I might be in the minority but I liked the TV Series a lot with Robert Urich and especially Avery Brooks as hawk. I did not care as much for the later movies with Joe Montainia (misspelled but I have no idea of the correct spelling) mostly because the guy who played hawk was not very good.

By: Tom Galloway

Tom Galloway — Wed, 20 Jan 2010 18:39:19 +0000

I think you may be one behind on the Jesse Stone books; in the latest, Sunny makes a reappearance.

Pity that we’ll, presumably, never see a Stone/Spenser team-up book. On the other hand, I do agree that since A Catskill Eagle, the Spencer series did change from having an evolving character arc to being more like traditional series television; enjoyable enough adventures/episodes, but no real change or development of the characters, such that the books can pretty much be read in any order after ACE.

By: Dwight Williams

Dwight Williams — Wed, 20 Jan 2010 04:37:16 +0000

For me, it was the TV show that did it. I ended up picking up some of the novels in more recent years, and I still see Robert Urich and Avery Brooks in my mind’s eye when I read those stories.

I may be able to eventually complete a collection but, as it was with the Saint after Charteris died, it’s not going to be the same.

By: Atticus

Atticus — Wed, 20 Jan 2010 01:26:32 +0000

I have to echo what Tom Lyle said….çráp.

Robert B Parker is my favorite author. I admire the characters he wrote and the honorable approach to living life they all seem to share. If a character in a book said he or she was going to do something, by god they did it….no matter how difficult.

I have to believe the author was the same kind of man and that’s the kind of person whose passing must be mourned.

I also mourn the passing of my favorite characters. Sure, it sounds like there may be a few more books “in the pipeline” but it feels like those characters just passed away as well.

I don’t tear up all that easily, but I’m not ashamed to say that my eyes brimmed upon learning of Parker’s death.

Çráp.

By: Tom Lyle

Tom Lyle — Wed, 20 Jan 2010 00:17:30 +0000

Çráp.
I looked forward to each of his books even if they were like pez – quick and easy.
He’ll be missed. A lot.
I think you and Brian Augustyn introduced me to Parker’s work if I remember correctly.
Oh, well.
Who do I read now?
Bummer.

Tom