Harry Bosch Has a Phone Number

[HarryT]

A number of authors have pulled similar stunts. I was recently reading Jeffrey Deaver's "Roadside Crosses", which is a murder story which has a blog at the heart of the story. The book contains excerpts from the blog, and the actual blog (fake, obviously) is a real web site.

[carpetmojo]

You don't think our number is in any popular series, do you ?

Grasping at straws really.

Ever since I read this thread, we've been pestered with a ludicrous amount of dead/ stupid/ cold calls - in fact more than we ever used to get before we signed up for the UK "Telephone Call Preference" measures.

[ Not worth doing, is our experience.... ]

[orlok]

Originally Posted by carpetmojo

...we signed up for the UK "Telephone Call Preference" measures.

[ Not worth doing, is our experience.... ]

My experience is different (or maybe it's another scheme - Telephone Preference Service?). I used to get a minimum of weekly calls from a &£*%$& web development company, who despite repeated requests to be taken off their calling list, kept ringing me. Then I signed up to the TPS, and the next time they called I told them I had, and there was a £5000 fine if they ring without my permission, and they couldn't get off the phone quickly enough, and never rang again .

[djulian]

Originally Posted by carpetmojo

You don't think our number is in any popular series, do you ?

Grasping at straws really.

Ever since I read this thread, we've been pestered with a ludicrous amount of dead/ stupid/ cold calls - in fact more than we ever used to get before we signed up for the UK "Telephone Call Preference" measures.

[ Not worth doing, is our experience.... ]

I'm confused--is the number Connelly chose the same as your number? That would be a wild coincidence.

[Joshua.P]

I don't think it can be... Telephone companies have a list of numbers to use in movies/tv/books and stuff. He must be joking.

[HarryT]

Originally Posted by Joshua.P

I don't think it can be... Telephone companies have a list of numbers to use in movies/tv/books and stuff. He must be joking.

I've noticed that in American films and TV programmes, telephone numbers always seems to start in "555" which is, I understand, a prefix which isn't used for "real" numbers?

[Mike L]

Originally Posted by HarryT

I've noticed that in American films and TV programmes, telephone numbers always seems to start in "555" which is, I understand, a prefix which isn't used for "real" numbers?

And US social security numbers never start with 666 or with 987-65-432. That's a useful thing to know for those of use who have to create fictitious test data.

Mike

[WT Sharpe]

Originally Posted by HarryT

I've noticed that in American films and TV programmes, telephone numbers always seems to start in "555" which is, I understand, a prefix which isn't used for "real" numbers?

Originally Posted by Mike L

And US social security numbers never start with 666 or with 987-65-432. That's a useful thing to know for those of use who have to create fictitious test data.

Mike

It's actually something that bugs me about American films and TV shows. I wish when they came to a number they couldn't say publicly without certain repercussions, they would simply leave off the area code entirely, or better yet just say, 'I've got the number. I'll call,' or something to that effect. Whenever an actor has to recite aloud a phone number that starts with 555, it breaks the illusion; because it's common knowledge that those digits are the way screenwriters avoid having someone reciting someone's actual number. But I well understand the reason to not write real phone numbers into movie or TV scripts.

[Annettet28]

Originally Posted by djulian

So, I'm reading The Overlook, and I run across this line, spoken by the protagonist, Harry Bosch:



And I call the number, and lo and behold, he has voicemail.

Anyhow, I have been reading all of Michael Connelly's Harry Bosch novels in order, and I highly recommend them! Phoenix Public Library has almost all of them available through Overdrive.

Phone number doesn't work anymore. 3.15.2017

[DiapDealer]

Originally Posted by Annettet28

Phone number doesn't work anymore. 3.15.2017

Harry doesn't need a phone number any more. He's got his own TV show now (which I think Amazon is doing an excellent job with, by the way)!