5.06.2012

I may need to rethink my during-Session entertainment: too much of a good thing? Nah.

Dear Vince Flynn,

I love your writing - I always have.  For example, I just finished reading Kill Shot and enjoyed it a great deal.  You have great characters, gripping (and believable) story lines, and a most excellent sense of pacing.

But, really?  What do you have against rowers?  Also, I would've believed it more had you said an "eight-man crew" or a "four-man crew" instead of a "six-man crew" in chapter 27.  All the parts about single sculls were believable, though it still begs the question of why you don't like rowers to so woefully characterize one in a way such as you did.

Don't worry, though: I will still read every book you write, and will continue to enjoy all of the non-rowing parts of them (which thankfully, is more than 99 percent of the writing).

xoxo,
A Minnesota Rower
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Dear Howard E. Wasdin,

Now that I have finished reading Vince Flynn's latest work today, I am moving on to your memoirs, Seal Team Six: Memoirs of an Elite Navy Seal Sniper.  I have been looking forward to reading it for a while, and finally have some free time this afternoon.  However, I will be the first to admit that reading both Vince Flynn and your books in the same day may be akin to last year's watch-the-entire-Band of Brothers-series-in-one-day-in-the-middle-of-a-Legislative-session idea, or reading Russian literature in the middle of January snow storms: I might regret it.   But I doubt it.  (Obviously.  I keep doing it.)  

With great expectation and anticipation of your penned words,
Minny LinnEy

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