It's been a while since I've posted here (did anyone send out a search party?) due to Livejournal being blocked at work ("dating/relationship" site). I didn't want to be the one who pointed out this error but it seems as if someone else has instead. Hurrah!

On the other hand, attempts to post comments to the Torque Control website from work meet ( Read more... )

1 The Taken - Dean Koontz ( Read more... )

At one point a few months back, I had the fourth largest number of unread books on the LibraryThing website. Or, to be more accurate, I was the fourth greatest user of the "unread" tag. Whilst adding my latest purchases to the site, I had a look and found that I've slumped down to 17th place ( Read more... )

Just repeating news found at The Alien Online news blog (scroll down to news for Sunday September 17th) here:

The final book in David Gemmell's Troy trilogy, Fall Of Kings, will be finished by Gemmell's wife, Stella. Gemmell died after heart-bypass surgery in July prior to finishing the book, but had handed in 70,000 words taking the story up to ( Read more... )

His Rama is the devotee of dharma whose story has been told by grandparents to their grandchildren, who in turn heard it from their grandparents. In spite of being written in the language of the twenty-first century, I doubt that emotionally or spiritually there is little to separate the Rama who walks the pages of these six books as he who was ( Read more... )

On the vague off-chance I'll be sent to the far-reaches of Asia, where acquiring English-language books could prove tricky, I am on a sub-conscious mission to buy as many new books as possible.

To wit, the Bone one-volume collection (which is a door-step of a collection, something like 1400 pages worth!), Roger Levy's Icarus (Reckless Sleep and ( Read more... )

My first encounter with journalist/editor/writer Will Rhode was via his debut novel, Paperback Raita. Its hero is one Joshua King, an Englishman bumming around in Delhi, occasionally writing articles for a newspaper and trying to find inspiration for the bestselling novel that he has to write in order to gain his £5 million inheritance. He hears ( Read more... )