http://www.cinecynic.com/2008/10/raghavan-isnot-quite-the-police-procedural/ A cynic's take on movies, books and everything else Wed, 21 Jul 2010 16:52:50 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 http://www.cinecynic.com/2008/10/raghavan-isnot-quite-the-police-procedural/comment-page-1/#comment-307 Crossing Off Alex Cross – Cine Cynic Fri, 26 Jun 2009 05:51:57 +0000 http://www.cinecynic.com/?p=27#comment-307 [...] I read Patterson’s first two novels: Along Came a Spider and Kiss the Girls. Both books are “relentless page-turners”. A no-nonsense reader could feverishly turn the pages of the action chapters and skip the pages of the monotonous romance chapters. The one feature that I enjoyed in these novels was Patterson’s references through which you can tell that he is a normal guy who reads John Grisham and watches blockbuster movies. I am glad to have read Along Came a Spider and Kiss the Girls because I might have discovered director Shankar’s source behind the famous moronic interrogation scene in Anniyan and director Gautham Menon’s inspiration behind Raghavan. [...] [...] I read Patterson’s first two novels: Along Came a Spider and Kiss the Girls. Both books are “relentless page-turners”. A no-nonsense reader could feverishly turn the pages of the action chapters and skip the pages of the monotonous romance chapters. The one feature that I enjoyed in these novels was Patterson’s references through which you can tell that he is a normal guy who reads John Grisham and watches blockbuster movies. I am glad to have read Along Came a Spider and Kiss the Girls because I might have discovered director Shankar’s source behind the famous moronic interrogation scene in Anniyan and director Gautham Menon’s inspiration behind Raghavan. [...]

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