Talk:Michael Connelly

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Connelly surely knows that Hieronymus Bosch made up his surname (from a placename); Harry probably realizes that fact as well, in fact it's quite unlikely that he doesn't, and he may feel that having a nickname for his given name is poetic justice. But the question is this: do Connelly's readers know about all these name games (beyond being named after someone famous, and having a weird and awkward official given name).

If the readers have learned it from the books, it needs mention; if they have to learn it on their own, then it can't be mentioned: doing so would be annoying without what is forbidden, original research speculating on what Harry or Connelly feel about the parallel or counterpoint the fact provides.
--Jerzy·t 08:57, 15 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Harrys' original parner in the series was Jerry Edgar - an obvious play on J. Edgar Hoover. (There's also a name game where a word appearing in one context appears in a very different context in another book - the word 'Eidolon' is used as an online pseudonym by a villain in _The Poet_, only to turn up in the name of a film company 'Eidolon Productions' in a later book. (It's a reference to an Edgar Allen Poe poem.) Autarch 18:10, 18 May 2006 (UTC)

any addition to an article mentioning 'Richard & Judy' is doing its subject a great disservice. (Paulo Fontaine 16:17, 18 January 2006 (UTC))

Adding the spoiler warnings on the recurring characters was an excellent idea. Without it, I thought that "deceased" on Terry McCaleb might be saying too much. But now that the disclaimer is there, should The Poet be listed as a recurring character?Awesley 04:32, 11 April 2007 (UTC)

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Seeing that work has started on separate articles for the novels, I've created a navbar: Template:Michael Connelly Bibliography. What do you all think? Kms