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Michael Connelly – Harry Bosch / Lincoln Lawyer
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Michael Connelly’s Harry Bosch is often praised for one thing above all: moral consistency. “Everybody counts or nobody counts” is more than a slogan — it’s the spine of the series.
What interests me is how Bosch operates inside broken institutions rather than outside them. He doesn’t reject the system outright; he grinds against it, case by case, compromise by compromise. That makes the series feel grounded, but also limiting.
Questions for longtime readers:
Does Bosch’s moral clarity strengthen the realism, or does it simplify ethical ambiguity?
Has the character aged naturally with the world around him, or has the series outgrown its original framework?
And how do readers feel about Connelly’s expanding universe — Bosch, Haller, Ballard — as a single moral ecosystem?
Curious how others read Bosch today versus twenty years ago.
What interests me is how Bosch operates inside broken institutions rather than outside them. He doesn’t reject the system outright; he grinds against it, case by case, compromise by compromise. That makes the series feel grounded, but also limiting.
Questions for longtime readers:
Does Bosch’s moral clarity strengthen the realism, or does it simplify ethical ambiguity?
Has the character aged naturally with the world around him, or has the series outgrown its original framework?
And how do readers feel about Connelly’s expanding universe — Bosch, Haller, Ballard — as a single moral ecosystem?
Curious how others read Bosch today versus twenty years ago.
