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janecoaston.bsky.social • 22 hours ago

Lee Child was on one for this

Reposted from Bill Nordwall

“He was in the best shape of his life. Like a condom crammed with walnuts”

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nathan-a-tanner.bsky.social•21 hours ago

that’s when his muscles were so thick his chest literally stopped a bullet

polargriffin.bsky.social•14 hours ago

This is a Molly Ivins reference! She said it about Swarzenaggar https://www.texasmonthly.com/articles/molly-ivins-2/#

patricksaxton.bsky.social•21 hours ago

That man really thinks Americans are dummies and we're like "hell yeah! More of that right there Lee!"

patricksaxton.bsky.social•21 hours ago

Reacher as this meta joke about Americans written by an English dude that ends up making him rich from Americans eating it up no ironically (for the most part) is hilarious to me

jerrybrennan.bsky.social•20 hours ago

Kinda makes me wanna read Reacher, ngl.

andrewlowman.bsky.social•22 hours ago

Isn't ten thousand calories to stay level how much Brian Shaw eats?

brandonjitsu.bsky.social•12 hours ago

It's why Tom Cruise was so thoroughly unsuitable for the role.

No shade to Tom, he's an amazing action star. But literally half the plot of Reacher novels are: what if a REALLY big guy was in THIS situation?

tracinski.bsky.social•14 hours ago

Fake tough guy. Meanwhile, this guy spent 14 months in a Soviet gulag "shoveling ten tons of cement a day."

tracinski.bsky.social•14 hours ago

Story here: http://blog.feinviolins.com/2012/04/misha-maisky-virtuoso-cellist-soviet.html

jamellebouie.net•17 hours ago

this is incredible

craigmsmith.bsky.social•17 hours ago

You're saying there's a way to describe the male physique WITHOUT recourse to condom/foodstuffs analogies?

I'm skeptical, but I'll hear you out...

brentwaggoner.bsky.social•15 hours ago

At the end of the first Reacher book, he stops a close range gunshot with his giant chest muscles and it doesn't get more grounded from there.

nathan-a-tanner.bsky.social•13 hours ago

that’s actually Tripwire, book 3, and pedantry is OK cause our big boy is a stickler for precision

brentwaggoner.bsky.social•13 hours ago

Fair play!

sethpartnow.bsky.social•13 hours ago

No he gets saved by the, erm, walnuts being described here at the end of the book quoted above. I don’t think he gets seriously wounded at any point in Killing Floor.

brentwaggoner.bsky.social•13 hours ago

Someone pointed me to the book I thinking of above, haha. What a man Jack is.

jos1463.bsky.social•16 hours ago

That's one of the early books, "Tripwire". Excellent stuff.

justbreathe0507.bsky.social•16 hours ago

Pure poetry.

petemonks.bsky.social•21 hours ago

The ‘condom filled with walnuts’ line is stolen from a Clive James description of Arnold Schwarzenegger in some article in the 70s or early 80s.

49b.bsky.social•21 hours ago

erotic

bartsmith.bsky.social•22 hours ago

it doesn't get better than Jack Reacher using a computer

ericmckay5.bsky.social•21 hours ago

I imagine his pointer finger smashed completely through the mouse and dented the desk.

afab-acab.bsky.social•21 hours ago

This is the shit I mean when I say I love Reacher the weirdo drifter, and Reacher the massive fighter is just bonus content. If he were real and I got to have dinner with him I'd honestly want to spend the whole time listening to him bitch about finally having to get a debit card

gpsthesequel.bsky.social•21 hours ago

Reacher complains about not being able to just hand someone money at a cashless coffee shop. Explains how they make more money taking cash because of card processing fees. then beats a bad buy with an electric scooter

afab-acab.bsky.social•21 hours ago

I'm sure I'm not the reader Lee Child has in mind when writing but hey, it's all good 😊