Just trying to find out if there is anyone out there ... Is there anything happening new in the literary world this week or in the next couple weeks that interests you? Aside from the usual nasty bratty girl junk? Something really interesting? I think so. The new Daniel Silva book comes out on Tuesday. The Secret Servant. I have been waiting for it for a while. HIs last book, The Messenger was amazing. The character of Gabriel Allon is one of the best written characters in contemporary literature. Anybody out there read Daniel Silva?? Pax - C
2007-07-22 18:39:53 · 13 answers · asked by Persiphone_Hellecat 7 in Arts & Humanities ➔ Books & Authors
Ah you read the Booker Prize books then? Have you read Vernon God Little? I love that book. And it's just C - the Pax stands for Peace.
2007-07-22 18:53:57 · update #1
"Thursday Next: Among Sequels" by Jasper Fforde is coming out tomorrow. It's the fifth in a great mystery series about people who literally live in a literary world. Characters from classic books are real and actually live in their books and people can go in and out of them.
Thursday is an agent with the Swindon SpecOps department 27, the Literary Detectives or LiteraTecs, which means she investigates cases that seem rather bizarre but are perfectly normal in this parallel world such as illegal book trafficking, bootleg poetry etc.
Thursday lives in a parallel late-eighties, where England has been fighting the Crimean War for more than a hundred years with a Russia that still has a Tsar, there is no United Kingdom, Wales has become the "Socialist Republic Of Wales", England is a republic and apparently Operation Sealion was carried out successfully. In the world of Thursday Next, literature is a much more popular medium than in our world.
2007-07-23 03:41:51 · answer #1 · answered by BlueManticore 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Sorry to say Pax-C, but I always have to content myself with already released books. Here where I live, latest released books arent available.
However, i have been waiting for the longlist and the shortlist for this year's Booker Prize to come out. i will get some books out of that.
TW K
2007-07-22 18:48:32 · answer #2 · answered by TW K 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Presently, I'm reading these books:
1. "Peeling the Onion" by Gunther Grass, his memoir (a hardcover published by Harvill Secker in London). I read to learn more on his life before he won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1999. I like his sincere, frank episodes regarding how his Mama raised him and his sister as well as his reaction to his Dad's embrace at the railway station for seeing him off as a young recruit to fight the Russians.
2. "Untold Stories" by Alan Bennett, his memoir again. I read to know him and his literary works since I've rarely heard his name nor read his books. There is also another, that is, "Writing Home" (both in paperback published by Faber and Faber & Profile Books) I would read later after I read most of "Untold Stories". He writes well and I'm amused with his ideas on particular topics before, during and after he went up to study at Oxford in 1955.
2007-07-22 18:56:06 · answer #3 · answered by Arigato ne 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Its not coming out right now but i will be around the fall time. It is a sequal from the series of "A Great and Terrible Beauty." I don't remember the name of the new book though, but am sure in someway or another I will end up reading it.
2007-07-25 04:32:05 · answer #4 · answered by Argent 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Names mutually with Ophelia are stable with me. So are Tristan, Violet, Odette, and all of the different names you had on your different question. i do no longer likely concepts it while i won't be in a position to pronounce a acceptance, yet i might want to so i will communicate it with my acquaintances in college, or on the telephone, and so on. There are a pair sequence that I cherished and my grandpa (a super reader) insubordinatly refused to study because of the fact he ought to no longer pronounce the names. such because of the fact the Harry Potter sequence, it incredibly is probable to have peculiar names because of the fact it incredibly is delusion, he does not study because of the fact of names like Bellatrix, Rubeus, Hermione, Minerva, and so on. and the countless characters first names are not 0.5 as undesirable as their final. in case your e book is a greater reasonable e book, then those names are ok, in case your e book is a delusion, those names are marvelous.
2016-09-30 12:08:05 · answer #5 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I have heard good things about Soon I Will Be Invincible by Austin Grossman, but have not purchased it yet.
Oh and... WHAT! - No Harry Potter fans answering this question. Now that in a conundrum!
2007-07-23 15:44:20 · answer #6 · answered by Ralph 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Well, I don't know about any new books coming out, but I am about to start reading "Lust", which is the first one of the series 'The Seven Deadly Sins'. I heard they are good books. I'll see about that.
2007-07-24 17:48:17 · answer #7 · answered by LizzWeasley 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
personally I'm waiting for Night Rise by Anthony Horowitz, and Eclipse by Stephenie Meyer.
I like action, adventure, suspense books
2007-07-23 14:14:18 · answer #8 · answered by UKBoosher 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Harry Potter last version released last Saturday..
it making sensation every where..
if u r interested u can go thhrough
2007-07-23 16:51:41 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
Kushiel's Justice just came out--which I have my eyes on. I'm also trying to get a copy of Captain's Glory and Resistance. (ST-TNG novel.)
2007-07-22 19:30:54 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋