Best Fight Scene Ever - CrimeSpace2024-03-29T11:06:50Zhttp://crimespace.ning.com/forum/topics/537324:Topic:124772?commentId=537324%3AComment%3A124839&feed=yes&xn_auth=noAny fight scene from a Robert…tag:crimespace.ning.com,2008-02-21:537324:Comment:1251772008-02-21T01:34:57.607ZJohnny Ostentatioushttp://crimespace.ning.com/profile/JohnnyOstentatious
Any fight scene from a Robert B. Parker Spenser novel. I love how a lot of times the action will run in a paragraph that may run for pages. Works for him, since in other parts of his books, dialogue is often short one-sentence graphs.
Any fight scene from a Robert B. Parker Spenser novel. I love how a lot of times the action will run in a paragraph that may run for pages. Works for him, since in other parts of his books, dialogue is often short one-sentence graphs. The only one that jumps out f…tag:crimespace.ning.com,2008-02-18:537324:Comment:1248762008-02-18T20:44:12.518ZGraham Powellhttp://crimespace.ning.com/profile/grahampowell
The only one that jumps out from my memory was in THE MEDITERRANEAN CAPER, an early (1973) Dirk Pitt book by Clive Cussler. Dirk and Al Giordano were fighting some huge dude and getting the crap kicked out of them When their opponent turns his back on Dirk, Dirk remembers an old adage: No matter how big the man, hit him hard in the balls, and he will go down.
The only one that jumps out from my memory was in THE MEDITERRANEAN CAPER, an early (1973) Dirk Pitt book by Clive Cussler. Dirk and Al Giordano were fighting some huge dude and getting the crap kicked out of them When their opponent turns his back on Dirk, Dirk remembers an old adage: No matter how big the man, hit him hard in the balls, and he will go down. Elmore Leonard, The Hot Kid:…tag:crimespace.ning.com,2008-02-18:537324:Comment:1248482008-02-18T14:03:35.338ZJack Getzehttp://crimespace.ning.com/profile/JGetze
Elmore Leonard, The Hot Kid:<br />
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Carlos waited for the marshals to look at him before saying, "The cowboy starts to ride off and I call to him to wait a second. He reins and looks at me. I told him I'd quit chasing him if he brought my cows back. I said, "But you try to ride off with my stock I'll shoot you.'"<br />
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"You spoke to him like that?" the talker said. "How old are you?"<br />
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"Going on sixteen. The same age as my dad when he joined the U.S. Marines."<br />
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The quiet marshal spoke for the first time.…
Elmore Leonard, The Hot Kid:<br />
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Carlos waited for the marshals to look at him before saying, "The cowboy starts to ride off and I call to him to wait a second. He reins and looks at me. I told him I'd quit chasing him if he brought my cows back. I said, "But you try to ride off with my stock I'll shoot you.'"<br />
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"You spoke to him like that?" the talker said. "How old are you?"<br />
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"Going on sixteen. The same age as my dad when he joined the U.S. Marines."<br />
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The quiet marshal spoke for the first time. He said, "So this Wally Tarwater rode off on you."<br />
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"Yes sir. Once I see he isn't gonna turn my cows, and he's approaching the stock trailer by now, I shot him." Carlos dropped his tone, saying, "I meant to wing him...<br />
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...The talkative marshal spoke up."You're doing all this shooting from what, two hundred yards." He glanced toward the Winchester leaning against a pecan tree. "No scope on your rifle?"<br />
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"Step out there a good piece and hold up a snake by it's tail, a live one," Virgil said. "My boy'll shoot its head off for you."<br />
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"I believe it," the quiet marshal said.<br />
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He brought a card from his vest pocket and handed it between the tips of his fingers to Virgil. He said, "Mr. Webser, I'd be interested to know what your boy sees himself doing in five or six years." I just reread All Quiet on th…tag:crimespace.ning.com,2008-02-18:537324:Comment:1248392008-02-18T12:19:55.921ZL. A. Starkshttp://crimespace.ning.com/profile/Starksbooks
I just reread All Quiet on the Western Front. I can't quote a particular scene--the whole book is a fight scene--but it gives a picture of the WWI exhaustion of "fighting over 200 yards of ground--and a dead man for every yard." LAS
I just reread All Quiet on the Western Front. I can't quote a particular scene--the whole book is a fight scene--but it gives a picture of the WWI exhaustion of "fighting over 200 yards of ground--and a dead man for every yard." LAS Yes. I liked that, too. My fa…tag:crimespace.ning.com,2008-02-17:537324:Comment:1247752008-02-17T21:48:00.704ZI. J. Parkerhttp://crimespace.ning.com/profile/Ingpark
Yes. I liked that, too. My favorite fight scenes are probably by Bernard Cornwell in the Sharpe novels.
Yes. I liked that, too. My favorite fight scenes are probably by Bernard Cornwell in the Sharpe novels.