BookJumper
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Against Nature I once saw in the British Library Shop and it did intrigue me; however the 'decadent' pleasures explored within are probably too 'decadent' for my taste (I don't like books with any amount, shape or form of sex in them).
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If you loved Good Omens, you'll love Discworld Too - after all, Sir Terry coauthored Good Omens so you already know you like his style!
Also, I think you might have missed out, Potterwise - IMHO, books 1 to 4 are the only ones worth reading.
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I've just had a snoop around and the Complete seems to be very much out of print
if either of you is more successful, please do report back... I wanna!Incidentally, how cool is it that Oscar's grandson is actually called Merlin? Or am I being childish
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Come here, you kindred spirit youI straighten the books up as I walk around the store, and put the ones on the display tables back in their proper pile, etc. My neat-freak tendencies, I suppose. Can't help it. I'm exactly the same - my inner librarian will not abide seeing books in less than alphabetical order!
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I see your problem, however - there are ways. Halls in my uni consisted of 12 people per floor x 3 floors x building = 36 people under one roof, yet reading happened
I'll admit that most of it didn't actually happen in my lodgings (although when in need, that's what locks on doors are for!), but rather in parks/pubs/etc. I cross my fingers for you also, that you may find the space and time to indulge in your newly found passion. -
'He had been quite pleased with Manchester...Crowley - Good Omens!'
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I have this in Italian but always refused to read it as it was translated and incomplete; your review has just made me itch to get my hands on the Complete Letters of Oscar.
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Odd and fanciful sounds goods good to me
and I've been to Wall and back if that helps!Happy Neverwhere, I'm sure you'll love it as much as I did.
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I don't think many people on here would disagree with your point of view on romance
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OH promised he'd build my mini-shelf today (the famous one which we managed to half-build upside down before the screwdriver gave up on life...); if that happens I'll spend a couple of happy hours rearranging everything and finally show you lot what my shelves look like
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Andrew - surely your campus has a bookshop? I cannot count the hours I spent in Blackwell's when I was doing my BA...!
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Awww, poor VinayI wish I knew what it felt like to have family book shopping time I do realise how very lucky I am, my entire family is one of voracious readers, so they'd never consider bookshopping time/money wasted.I've actually remembered the first time I tried building a wishlist. I was in Waterstone's Liverpool, started at Fiction A and wrote down everything I liked the look of onto my piece of paper. I'm not sure how many hours later, I was nearly locked in the shop
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Question: does one need to have read JS&MN to get the most out of The Ladies of Grace Adieu, or will they make sense to the uninitiated?
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Fingers crossed indeed - before my copy went missing I was enjoying Going Postal immensely; Moist was an instant favourite of mine so I really hope they treat him well.
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It was an hour and a bit of talk/questions and then the signing commenced. I wish I'd said more to him now, for all my wordsmithery I'm a very shy person socially so it took a lot of pluck even to say that - I do hope he was pleased Kylie, though I was too busy fleeing to tell
. I'll prepare psychologically for the release of One of Our Thursdays is Missing, rehearse lots of witty things to say; I reckon a year of planning should do it.I didn't speak up as such... what happened was, I had a piece of paper saying 'Note spelling: Giulia the BookJumper' on top of my pile and when I handed it all over I just explained that I wanted to make sure because the books I'd ordered from his website all had my name spelt wrong. To which he said he'd replace them, which was indeed very nice of him
I'll be sending them off on Monday and eagerly await the package that will make me the possessor of Jasper's signed and dedicated opera omnia - talk about pleased with myself. He put 'the BookJumper' in different places on the page on the various books, too, which was a touch I liked.Awww, I'm sorry I made you jealous CW
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Yay, hugs
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@ Steve: told you so
.Giulia met Jasper today
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I can see where you're coming from Cookie - I met him tonight and he reminded me of a slightly more ginger Hugh Laurie, which is no bad thing
. He was lovely, signed & dedicated all my books (SoG and TNs 1-4) to 'Giulia the BookJumper' and said that if I send him back the books with my name spelt wrong he'll replace them with new ones, which is decent of him.I usually don't get very deep with authors for fear of making a fool of myself with people I look up to; today I decided not to be a chicken so after the signatures and the picture (coming soon) I hovered and hovered and eventually blurted out, 'You asked before about whether there were any fiction writers in the room, I just wanted to say that you've given this budding fiction writer a lot of inspiration over the past few years.'
When he wished me luck, I continued, 'Maybe in a few years' time I'll be giving a talk to the Fforde Society about the influence you've had on my work' [tonight's event being held by the Lewis Carroll Society for Jasper to talk about the influence Carroll had had on his work].
Then I fled in a flurry of embarrassment:lurker:.
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That is indeed a good list - I've read one and a lot of the others are already on my wishlist, however there's several I've never heard of so I'll be definitely researching those.
The Luxury of Exile also sounds interesting... I'm a great fan of Byron, so do let me know if it's decent!
Thanks
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Take my recent trip to W Piccadilly to purchase the collector's edition of Shades of Grey. I knew precisely what I wanted and that I didn't have much (if any) more money than what SoG cost, yet this did not deter me from spending the better part of three happy hours browsing the entirety of fiction, horror, science fiction & fantasy, children's fiction, teenage fiction and classics. If I'd been richer and slightly less ill, those three hours could have been any number of hours.
OH never comes with me to bookshops because he'd start getting frantically bored five minutes in. My family's more in tune with my modus operandi, we'll enter a boostore en masse, synchronise our watches - I kid you not - and reconvene at the till in an hour (usually to tell each other we need a further half an hour).
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Anything by Isabel Allende should appeal; I particularly recommend Eva Luna.
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... of course books make people. Everything you experience influences you one way or another, and if your experience of choice is that of books, then it must follow that who you are is influenced by what you've read.
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I saw about a quarter of Hogfather and wasn't impressed, no-one was like I'd imagined them (except Teatime <3) and Death just looked like a cheap halloween outfit from Smiffy's
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Now that's cool.I've actually read the dictionary on the bus a couple of times, and i'm not even joking I love interesting words! Sure i probably got some funny looks but i don't really care.
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On occasion, people over on the Amazon fiction boards will ask whether anyone knows of a good book forum; so far I've kept this place under wraps as I don't really want to have to ban the Netherworld out of all the shameless self-promoters and trolls that infestate the place, however I'm wondering whether I shouldn't be targeting the genuine readers that are there also. Thoughts?