Any Stephanie Plum series fans

[Goblinmonger]

I know, I know, it's crappy literature, but it makes my laugh and it's a nice mindless break from teaching literature.

Anyway, just watched the newest Hot in Cleveland episode and it seemed to me like it was a statement that Bette White would have been a better Grandma than Debbie Reynolds (who I am sure I'm going to hate in the movie).

Anyway, thoughts or other Plum fans?

[motely36]

1. I have read all except the new '18'

I keep saying I'm done. They go nowhere and just the same jokes.

But I read the next one anyway. Oh well, I could do worse things.

[boston bean]

2. Ranger and Joe Morelli are hot

that's what keeps my attention, but it's getting a little boring as time goes on, I'll agree.

But I will go see the movie.... Anyone know when that is coming out?

[cyberswede]

7. LOL

I always had a crush on Ranger.

[seabeyond]

13. i stopped at like 12 or 13. i think it was 8 that was funniest. i cannot get friend running down

sidewalk with bacon? adn dogs chasing her. had me in stetches. but about 10, 11, maybe it was 12, they started getting stale. i plan to get back and finish up series.

[MaineDem]

3. I'll admit to being a fan

Those books are my mind candy. Just funny reading.

The movie comes out January 27.

[Little Star]

4. I loved about the first 10 then...

I think the writer diverted her attention to her other books.

But I will be seeing the movie. I like to see what they do with the movie as opposed to what I envisioned in my head. I will admit, so far I always like my own vision better.

[LWolf]

5. I'm confused.

Is it on tv?

I just read the 17th book; I saw it on the "new arrivals" shelf at the library and picked it up.

I'm way past tired of the trio. The longer she stumbles along, stringing along both men, the less I like her.

[MaineDem]

6. Not on tv; movie version of Book 1 releases in January. n/t

[LWolf]

9. That explains it.

I don't go to see too many movies, so I don't hear about what's coming to the local theaters. About the only movies I go to are kid's films that my grandson is anxious to see. Anything else I see later when it's released to dvd, or not at all.

I wonder about casting; no real man could possibly be as hot as Ranger is described, and I'm betting that Stephanie won't come with pimples, jeans that are too tight because of her binges, or some of her other flaws. I'll have to go look it up.

[Goblinmonger]

11. Ranger is Daniel Sunjata

from Rescue Me. He seems like a good fit.

[LWolf]

12. I don't know who he is,

but I googled a picture. He could pull it off, if he can exude that extreme magnetism in action that a photo doesn't catch.

An imperfect, REAL woman with impossibly hot men to choose from...no wonder the series keeps going.

I think that one of the reasons women like Stephanie Plum is her imperfections, which I don't think will show up on the big screen; at least, not her physical imperfections. Those make her somewhat real. The rest are unreal enough to drive the entire farce.

[Curmudgeoness]

8. When I just want a mindless read, I enjoy them.

There are times that you just want to enjoy a book, knowing that you will not learn anything of value or have to think too hard. This is one of my favorites when I hit that wall.

[Luciferous]

10. I really enjoyed the series at first, but then it got so terrible I couldn't read

them any more. The movie looks like it might be interesting though.