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[Iron_Fist]

mmm I dig his books. The scarecrow seires in particular. Call me a ballistics geek. But whatever, I also dig just how implausible alot of the events in his books are. Anyone else read Matthew Reilly's books?

[elcapitan]

I read Ice Station and Temple when I was younger, and thought they weren't too bad - low-brow, certainly, but readable. I picked up Area 7 as an aeroplane read a few months ago, and didn't make it past the first hundred pages.

It's appalling! The man couldn't write his way out of a wet paper bag. Frankly, the fact that he was published at all demeans everyone in the publishing industry, AND the reading public.

[TheFuriousWombat]

i too read ice station and temple a few years back and found them pretty good page turners. not well written but very fast paced and the kind of novel you can read in a single day pretty easily. i haven't read any of his later stuff. temple bored me a bit but ice station is relativly worth reading for a good action novel.

[Gridgm]

it's good stuff definatly page turners...i don't like hover car racer that much i don't think it should have been published and instead should have stayed as a purely internet novel but that's just me

[Iron_Fist]

need to get me a copy of contest. But I dig the bounty hunting in scarecrow. and the ending... just WTF. so bad. And yet I couldn't stop reading.

[salada]

i used to buy his books before international flights and read them in one/two sittings on-board. they might not have any literary whatever in the same way dumb action flicks don't have any cinematic whatever, but they kill time, and you are guaranteed to read the phrase "his head exploded like an overripe watermelon" at least once in all of his books, so i'm not going to argue.

[godinpants]

i liked hovercar racer.

although it pretty much seemed to me to be harry potter, but replacing wizards with racing kids.

[elcapitan]

I picked up Hovercar Racer in a bookshop once.

An author who actually writes "ZOOOOOOOM!!" in full seriousness not only deserves not to sell, he deserves to be publicly castrated and then shot.

[TheFuriousWombat]

I picked up Hovercar Racer in a bookshop once.

An author who actually writes "ZOOOOOOOM!!" in full seriousness not only deserves not to sell, he deserves to be publicly castrated and then shot.

come on, give him a break. surely it couldn't be in all seriousness and surely he doesn't consider his work high literature. they're pure fluff and he knows it. but he can write a page turner and in certain situations that can be great. this shouldn't be held to the same standards as actual literature. it's fun, almost lame action comic book-ey.

[Caspian]

I picked up Hovercar Racer in a bookshop once.

An author who actually writes "ZOOOOOOOM!!" in full seriousness not only deserves not to sell, he deserves to be publicly castrated and then shot.

come on, give him a break. surely it couldn't be in all seriousness and surely he doesn't consider his work high literature. they're pure fluff and he knows it. but he can write a page turner and in certain situations that can be great. this shouldn't be held to the same standards as actual literature. it's fun, almost lame action comic book-ey.

I agree with that. He's like the Dragonball Z of novels. Fluffy, not too much plot or character development, and yet completely awesome.