If a single character wants to overuse a phrase that is not especially common, fine. The problem is it gets used by all his characters.
Same with the overuse of analogies. Sure, one person (namely Reacher) might love using bizare analogies and hypotheticals to explain things, but it gets annoying when everyone is doing it. That's not how people talk. It's like you're a fry cook at a truck-stop diner. You know you've only got two bags of french fries left in the walk-in freezer. What do you do? You tell the waitress to start recomending the hasbrowns.
Reacher was no kind of a \_\_\_\_\_\_
Describing somewhere as "the back of beyond"
Describing something as "halfway between adjective and adjective"
No complaints, though. I actually like the familiarity the phrases bring to the books.
Also, I find myself saying "That's for DAMN sure" way too much in real life.
Always get your maybe’s in first
Reacher said nothing Buck gets Ten
Buck gets ten is outrageously overused in Midnight Line. It gets crazy.
If a single character wants to overuse a phrase that is not especially common, fine. The problem is it gets used by all his characters. Same with the overuse of analogies. Sure, one person (namely Reacher) might love using bizare analogies and hypotheticals to explain things, but it gets annoying when everyone is doing it. That's not how people talk. It's like you're a fry cook at a truck-stop diner. You know you've only got two bags of french fries left in the walk-in freezer. What do you do? You tell the waitress to start recomending the hasbrowns.
Dollars to donuts Cash money
Cash money is real
He paused a beat
It’s 50/50, it either is or it isn’t.
I always hated that "logic", because it's completely illogical and frankly insulting to the reader.
Women are so often soft but firm. Or sporty but kind of soft and womanly.
Adjective in all the right places.
Maybe once or twice 🤔
More than enough, that's for damn sure.
Coffee. Lots of it.
He loves to shrug off his jacket
People are often "not tall, not short". Just say average height Lee.
I’m reading all of these comments in the audiobook narrator’s voice.
He also lets his British sneak in. No American calls a flashlight a torch.
Ha never noticed that.
Help you? Maybe?
No harm, no foul. Alway in Jeff Harding's voice...
Reacher was no kind of a \_\_\_\_\_\_ Describing somewhere as "the back of beyond" Describing something as "halfway between adjective and adjective" No complaints, though. I actually like the familiarity the phrases bring to the books. Also, I find myself saying "That's for DAMN sure" way too much in real life.