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If people could PM me with author name and book title it would be greatly appreciated. Just so I cant print them off and take it to WH Smith :)

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I read "Chickenhawk " a while ago; it's really haunting. The author ends up in a real mess through drink, drugs, crime, etc. Definitely not a happy ending!


There is in The Little Train that Won a Medal. He rescues the Silver Streamliner with the help of the children. :)


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There is in The Little Train that Won a Medal. He rescues the Silver Streamliner with the help of the children. :)


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Hopefully I'll have a book coming out soon.













Shouldn't have eaten it I suppose.


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Shakespeare by Bill Bryson. Actually for the 2nd time as I read it on the train down and neglected to bring another book.

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Shakespeare by Bill Bryson. Actually for the 2nd time as I read it on the train down and neglected to bring another book.


You must read like a speed demon. Takes me a week or two to read an average size book. Say... 500 pages. I like to savour it though. Absorb it fully. Or maybe I'm a retard.

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You must read like a speed demon. Takes me a week or two to read an average size book. Say... 500 pages. I like to savour it though. Absorb it fully. Or maybe I'm a retard.


Short book and a long train journey. The journeys are basically meaning I'm on about 2 books a week now, maybe 3, which is all good.

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Short book and a long train journey. The journeys are basically meaning I'm on about 2 books a week now, maybe 3, which is all good.


Lots of toing and froing then? So Shakespeare is a short book. I imagined it was an 800 page epic or something. Like LotR. I never could get to the end of that. I tried. God knows I tried. It bored me shitless though.

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Lots of toing and froing then? So Shakespeare is a short book. I imagined it was an 800 page epic or something. Like LotR. I never could get to the end of that. I tried. God knows I tried. It bored me shitless though.


200 pages. It's about his life rather than his work, and there isn't a whole bunch of facts. V interesting read though.

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On the back of several recommendations from this forum I am reading 'The Road' by Cormac McCarthy. Now, I really like CM's other books, having read a few of them recently including The Crossing and No Country, and given the reviews on The Road I expected to be both horrified and emotionally traumatised. Not a pleasant read everyone said.

Now here's the thing. I can't connect with this book. I am only about a quarter of the way through but I just don't care that much about what happens to the characters. I was thinking about this. Is it because I don't have kids, nor want kids, nor particularly like kids? Perhaps that's it. Don't know why, but it's not really affecting me in the way I expected, or any way for that matter.

'The Crossing' on the other hand, affected me greatly. Superb book.


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You can all read mine when I've finished writing it. Currently on chapter 15.

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You can all read mine when I've finished writing it. Currently on chapter 15.


:D I've written 3 novels. Am currently on a break then will re-write novel 3 in preparation for publishing*

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:D I've written 3 novels. Am currently on a break then will re-write novel 3 in preparation for publishing*

*optimism abounds


I've always wanted to do that - never seem to get time to sit down and get started though

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I've always wanted to do that - never seem to get time to sit down and get started though


Getting started is the hardest part. Once you're writing it does take over somewhat. Don't expect to sleep at night though. Oh and expect a few demons to be released. Most writing has personal roots and although it is cathartic, it also bares your soul. Well, it did mine anyway.


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I've always wanted to do that - never seem to get time to sit down and get started though


You have to be two people to write a novel. You and your author ego.

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Vince Flynn novels "Tom Clancey on speed"

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Getting started is the hardest part. Once you're writing it does take over somewhat. Don't expect to sleep at night though. Oh and expect a few demons to be released. Most writing has personal roots and although it is cathartic, it also bares your soul. Well, it did mine anyway.


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