Double Cross

James Patterson’s Double Cross is an audiobook I got for Christmas. As I listened to it, I realized that I knew the main character – Detective Alex Cross from a movie I saw and blogged about (remember Monday Movie Roundups?) called Along Came a Spider. Back when I wrote about it, I mentioned that “I’d almost forgotten it by Sunday evening” (how fun it is to quote oneself). Perhaps the act of blogging about it is why I even remembered it at all. As I recall, I started rounding up movies on Monday precisely to help me remember what I had seen. Then I got lazy and stopped doing it and now I can’t even remember the last movie I saw. Sigh.

So, back to Double Cross. It was engaging. I probably wouldn’t have read it in book form, and it was full of the kind of cliches that give genre writing a bad rap, but still, I liked it. It was entertaining, and once I was engaged, there was no way I wasn’t going to not learn how Alex Cross was going to stop the two serial killers out to get him.

I find myself enjoying audiobooks more with each successive one I listen to. It beats the hell out listening to how the world is falling apart on NPR. I mean, I read about that in the blogs.

And, to bring this full circle, when I learned there was another Alex Cross film with Morgan Freeman again in the lead role, I rented and watched Kiss the Girls. Not as good as Along Came a Spider, but now that I’ve blogged about it, I’m sure to remember it.

James Brush

James Brush is a teacher and writer who lives in Austin, TX. He tries to get outside as much as possible.

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