James Herbert's new book!!!

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silly billy

October 12, 2006, 23:20:35
Anyone else looking forward to James Herberts new book due out tomorrow??
My idea was to build Liverpool into a bastion of invincibility. Napoleon had that idea. He wanted to conquer the bloody world. I wanted Liverpool to be untouchable. My idea was to build Liverpool up and up until eventually everyone would have to submit and give in. Bill Shankly.

silly billy

October 12, 2006, 23:20:35
My idea was to build Liverpool into a bastion of invincibility. Napoleon had that idea. He wanted to conquer the bloody world. I wanted Liverpool to be untouchable. My idea was to build Liverpool up and up until eventually everyone would have to submit and give in. Bill Shankly.

valmarg

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October 12, 2006, 23:26:50
Erm, I might be if I knew who James Herbert was!!

valmarg

silly billy

#2
October 12, 2006, 23:28:57
 :o :o :o
My idea was to build Liverpool into a bastion of invincibility. Napoleon had that idea. He wanted to conquer the bloody world. I wanted Liverpool to be untouchable. My idea was to build Liverpool up and up until eventually everyone would have to submit and give in. Bill Shankly.

Heldi

#3
October 13, 2006, 08:12:43
No I'm not but I've been thinking recentlyI would really love for Sir Ian McKellen to read the bedtime story on Cbeebies  :D

Looking for books for my 8,soon to be 9 year old son to read. Thinking about Lemony Snicket.

Yellow Petals

#4
October 13, 2006, 09:22:26
Am reading Dispatches by Michael Herr and it's driving me mad.  I can't get my head around his style of writing (perhaps because he's a journalist) but he keeps going off on a weird tangent and I don't know what the heck he's on about (of course it was written when he was in Vietnam so the old wacky backy probably has something to do with it!)  I'm about four chapters in and I think I might give this one up as a lost cause which is a pity because it has rave reviews.

jaggythistle

#5
October 13, 2006, 11:32:49


  For Valmarg  ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D........guy is a good writer.......it was down to his
  first 2 books that I ended up a bookworm  ;)

  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Herbert

jaggythistle

#6
October 13, 2006, 11:35:07


  Tssssssst.........forgot the list  :-[

  Books by this author
The Rats (1974), made into a film in 1982 under the title Deadly Eyes
The Fog (1975) (not related to the John Carpenter film of the same name)
The Survivor (1976), made into a film in 1981
Fluke (1977), made into a film in 1995
The Spear (1978)
Lair (1979)
The Dark (1980)
The Jonah (1981)
Shrine (1983)
Domain (1984)
Moon (1985)
The Magic Cottage (1986)
Sepulchre (1987)
Haunted (1988), made into a film in 1995
Creed (1990)
Portent (1992)
The City (1993), a graphic novel
James Herbert's Dark Places, a non-fiction book.
The Ghosts of Sleath (1994)
'48 (1996)
Others (1999)
Once (2001)
Nobody True (2003)
The Secret of Crickley Hall (2006)

Mrs Ava

#7
October 13, 2006, 11:43:56
I have read all of James Herberts stuff up until The Magic Cottage, and then I moved on to Stephen King and Dean Koontz.  Nowadays I read alsorts, but am re-reading a lot of the classics I read as a child and during my school years.

silly billy

#8
October 13, 2006, 12:01:32
I've read all Mr Herberts book except the new one.I am working my way through Mr King but some like the regulators and desperation are hard work.I have most of Mr Koontz but I find his so predictable they always wear the mandatory Rockports and Chinos and have a stunning wife!! Also I just can't take anyone who wears a wig seriously  ;D ;D ;D
I got hooked on pet semetary a classic.
My idea was to build Liverpool into a bastion of invincibility. Napoleon had that idea. He wanted to conquer the bloody world. I wanted Liverpool to be untouchable. My idea was to build Liverpool up and up until eventually everyone would have to submit and give in. Bill Shankly.

trojanrabbit

#9
October 13, 2006, 12:23:36
Don't read that many books - mainly because I'm generally pretty busy. On top of that I read slowly, but remember almost everything, and rarely revisit a book - unlike OH who reads very quickly, but misses stuff so will happily read the same book tree times, often within a week or so  ::)

My trouble is that I'm often very good at spotting patterns - be they geometric or narrative - so am rather often disappointed when I try a new author, since I can often outline the plot in moderate detail right through to the end by the time I've read 3 or 4 chapters. :(  Yes, yes, I know, I think too much! 'Tis both my blessing and my curse. <sigh>

I therefore commend Peter F Hamilton, Alistair Reynolds, and of course Terry Pratchett to you.
BTW I assume that other Pratchett fans will have noticed that the latest one (another semi-childrens'-book) came out last week in hardback, and is very reasonably priced in supermarkets. ;D

supersprout

#10
October 13, 2006, 14:14:27
Quote from: silly billy on October 13, 2006, 12:01:32
I got hooked on pet semetary a classic.

A few years back R4 put on pet semetary as the Book at Bedtime :o :o :o I used to lie there quaking with fright, but turn off? Never! ;D

wellingtons

#11
October 13, 2006, 14:43:32
If you like crime/mystery then Harlan Coban's Tell No-One is worth a read.   It's very clever, well written and a smashing twist in the tail.  His written loads of books, but that one of his earliest one and in my not so humble opinion his best.

I like reading a wide range of books.  Stephen King and James Herbert have been in there in the past, but not so much recently.

Ian Rankin writes very well and his plots are quite complex.

And one of the most memorable books I've read in the last couple of years was The Lovely Bones ... made me stay on the beach until the sun had gone, wrapped in a towel because I couldn't put it down.



cambourne7

#12
October 13, 2006, 15:54:45
Hi

I have just emailed my husband and asked him for  The Children of Húrin(
ISBN: 0007246226)  a new Tolkien story ...

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The Children of Húrin, begun in 1918, was one of three "Great Tales" J.R.R. Tolkien worked on throughout his life, though he never realized his ambition to see it published. Though familiar to many fans from extracts and references within other Tolkien books, it has long been assumed that the story would forever remain an "unfinished tale." Now reconstructed by Christopher Tolkien, painstakingly editing together the complete work from his father’s many drafts, this book is the culmination of a tireless thirty-year endeavor by him to bring J.R.R. Tolkien’s vast body of unpublished work to a wide audience.

Christopher Tolkien said: "It has seemed to me for a long time that there was a good case for presenting my father’s long version of the legend of The Children of Húrin as an independent work, between its own covers, with a minimum of editorial presence, and above all in continuous narrative without gaps or interruptions, if this could be done without distortion or invention, despite the unfinished state in which he left some parts of it."

Having drawn the distinctive maps for the original The Lord of the Rings more than fifty years ago, Christopher has also created a detailed new map for this book. In addition, it will include a jacket and color paintings by Alan Lee, illustrator of The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings Centenary Edition and Oscar®-winning designer of the film trilogy.

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weedbusta

#13
October 13, 2006, 19:13:38
loved all of james herberts books, i've read them all up until the city. i remember reading.'the rats'  when the binmen were on strike!!  dunno why i never read any more, he's a great author. stephen king held my attention for a long time until he brought out a book similar to (but not as good as) christine. it was sooo bad i can't even remember the title, and i  struggled to finish reading it. i like john grishams books too. dean r koontz i could never really get into.

silly billy

#14
October 13, 2006, 19:38:22
Sounds like From A Buick 8. Not one of his best.
My idea was to build Liverpool into a bastion of invincibility. Napoleon had that idea. He wanted to conquer the bloody world. I wanted Liverpool to be untouchable. My idea was to build Liverpool up and up until eventually everyone would have to submit and give in. Bill Shankly.

greyhound

#15
October 13, 2006, 22:05:03
I find Stephen King either very good or very bad.  Sometimes I haven't finished a book because it's gone downhill after starting well.

Also I wish he wouldn't use so many American brand names, as I haven't got a clue what he's talking about sometimes.  Example:  "He was in a room shaped like a Saltine box stood on end."  Well, I don't know what Saltines are, still less the shape of their box, so that tells me nowt. ???

weedbusta

#16
October 17, 2006, 19:28:54
Quote from: silly billy on October 13, 2006, 19:38:22
Sounds like From A Buick 8. Not one of his best.

that was the one
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