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zagubov

fc123 wrote: »

It is always about the edit with an Indie boutique and a good one can do well.....maybe you got it right and she spread herself too thin by opening the 2nd shop....and then that dragged down the good one with it?

michaels wrote: »

Finished reading 'Curious incident of the dog in the night' - I completely got all the autisitic stuff except for the bit about not being able to have hugs, that I would find too hard

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I have never got into that book, couldn't get past the first few pages. I must try again.
Yesterday, to make the most of being bedbound I read a John O Farrell (every book he has written is fab IMO esp '''This is your life'') and read 'The Man who forgot his wife' http://www.amazon.co.uk/product-reviews/0552771635/ref=cm_cr_dp_hist_five?ie=UTF8&filterBy=addFiveStar&showViewpoints=0


(I still can't use the features in the box to overwrite links etc??)


I would highly recommend it as he is funny / sad and incredibly insightful. It's easy to read as well as his writing style just 'flows'. It's set in Clapham and about the struggles of marriage in late 30's, 2 young teen kids and all the rest of the stuff that goes on in middle England type lives.

I read that Curious Incident one and it was very insightful. The O'Farrell book worries me a bit - I looked it up because I've liked some of his stuff. It sounds like a rehash of Mil Millington's Instructions for living Another Person's Life. Not that that's a bad thing.

I can't resist another shameless plug for my fave book Replay by Ken Grimwoood.
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lostinrates

I am not typing as zag.

fc123

zagubov wrote: »

fc123 wrote: »

It is always about the edit with an Indie boutique and a good one can do well.....maybe you got it right and she spread herself too thin by opening the 2nd shop....and then that dragged down the good one with it?



I read that Curious Incident one and it was very insightful. The O'Farrell book worries me a bit - I looke dit up because I've liked some of his sytuff. It sounds like a rehash of Mil Millington's Instructions for living Another Person's Life. Not that that's a bad thing.

I can't resist another shameless plug for my fave book Replay by Ken Grimwoood.
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That looks right up OH's street too ....does he keep on dying though? He loved a film about a guy who had a remote control to fast fwd his life.


This is Your Life by J O Farrell is also hilarious.




Sadly my new fave author was Paul Torday and I was waiting for his new book to come out about now. Looked up on Amazon to see nothing and went to bio to see when it was due out and he died last year.:(


His obituary was interesting.


''
When Paul Torday, who has died aged 67, published his first novel, Salmon Fishing in the Yemen, in 2007, its phenomenal success led to a remarkable new career for him, at an age when others might well have been contemplating retirement.


Despite his newfound fame and the book's worldwide popularity, however, he continued to work in industry, although for the remaining years of his life he also published, generally to critical acclaim, a sparkling new novel every year.


What Paul never publicly disclosed was that this extraordinary output reflected a personal race against time. Having wanted to write all his life, he was faced with a cancer diagnosis shortly after his first book was swept away on the whirlwind of an international award-winning literary sensation and he recognised the extent to which his time might be limited.


He wanted to find what he termed the "ultimate story", one that would bewitch readers, and he went on writing compulsively because he was still trying to find out what it was. To this end, each of his seven novels explored a different genre. Paul admitted once that, after discovering his ability to get published, he perhaps treated writing like learning to ride a bike: he kept pedalling like mad because he was afraid that if he fell off he might not be able to get back on. He sometimes suggested that he might stop writing, but never really meant it, and at his death left uncompleted yet another novel.''


The quote box doesn't work for me either??

PasturesNew

fc123 wrote: »

.... I thought I had a lifestyle led terminal fatal illness that was going to wipe me out in 4 or 5 days. I gave myself to Friday 21st.

I'm afraid that happens every time you're ill once you're over 40 if you're not used to being ill. I get like that - I'm "never ill", so every time I feel a bit funny I think "OMG this is it!!"

zagubov

fc123 wrote: »

zagubov wrote: »

That looks right up OH's street too ....does he keep on dying though? He loved a film about a guy who had a remote control to fast fwd his life.


This is Your Life by J O Farrell is also hilarious.




Sadly my new fave author was Paul Torday and I was waiting for his new book to come out about now. Looked up on Amazon to see nothing and went to bio to see when it was due out and he died last year.:(


His obituary was interesting.


''
When Paul Torday, who has died aged 67, published his first novel, Salmon Fishing in the Yemen, in 2007, its phenomenal success led to a remarkable new career for him, at an age when others might well have been contemplating retirement.


Despite his newfound fame and the book's worldwide popularity, however, he continued to work in industry, although for the remaining years of his life he also published, generally to critical acclaim, a sparkling new novel every year.


What Paul never publicly disclosed was that this extraordinary output reflected a personal race against time. Having wanted to write all his life, he was faced with a cancer diagnosis shortly after his first book was swept away on the whirlwind of an international award-winning literary sensation and he recognised the extent to which his time might be limited.


He wanted to find what he termed the "ultimate story", one that would bewitch readers, and he went on writing compulsively because he was still trying to find out what it was. To this end, each of his seven novels explored a different genre. Paul admitted once that, after discovering his ability to get published, he perhaps treated writing like learning to ride a bike: he kept pedalling like mad because he was afraid that if he fell off he might not be able to get back on. He sometimes suggested that he might stop writing, but never really meant it, and at his death left uncompleted yet another novel.''


The quote box doesn't work for me either??

In Replay the guy's in his forties and collapses with what he imagines is a heart attack but wakes up 25 years ago in his room at uni. Except he knows the future, who to invest in, what sports bets to make. He does keep dying but his replays get shorter and shorter. It's a fascinating story.

PasturesNew

fc123 wrote: »

Indie is the word everyone always uses in the trade and in trade press but I never see it used outside 'Drapers'.
Maybe in mainstream press people get it mixed up with Indian?

When I see the word Indie it throws me back to the mid 70s when "indie" tended to mean the freakoid, hippy types at school that were wearing long/flowing dresses and were acting a "little bit lesbo". The sort that'd braid their hair and use henna....

PasturesNew

Except he knows the future, who to invest in, what sports bets to make. He does keep dying but his replays get shorter and shorter. It's a fascinating story.

I sometimes ponder on this - and wonder how much I'd be able to invest/bet on. I don't even know who won X Factor each year, no idea who won the National (horse race), nor any football games. Indeed, I'd struggle to bet on the outcome of Govt Elections in the last 30 years

I'd be useless really.

Yorkie1

PasturesNew wrote: »

I'm afraid that happens every time you're ill once you're over 40 if you're not used to being ill. I get like that - I'm "never ill", so every time I feel a bit funny I think "OMG this is it!!"

I consider myself duly warned next time I'm struck down ... thanks

zagubov

PasturesNew wrote: »

Not sure who said that, with the quotes being mucked up by you lot

I sometimes ponder on this - and wonder how much I'd be able to invest/bet on. I don't even know who won X Factor each year, no idea who won the National (horse race), nor any football games. Indeed, I'd struggle to bet on the outcome of Govt Elections in the last 30 years

I'd be useless really.

Twas m'good self. Still if we replayed like the guy in the book we'd get better at it, and learn which planes to avoid flying in etc.

It was rumoured to be made into a film and that may still happen.

HAMISH_MCTAVISH

lostinrates wrote: »

I am not typing as zag.

fc123 wrote: »

The quote box doesn't work for me either??

This has been happening a lot lately, I suspect most often as a result of tablet use.

Someone leaves an extra quote box in a post, then it throws all subsequent replies out of the correct quotes.

Just go back in via edit and delete the extra quote box.....