Thingamy Take 2 - Trilian's Book

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Ooh, excited!

Fingers crossed this will arrive sometime next week.

I only got the address the day before I was leaving the country...

I had it all wrapped up and printed off a postage label from the post office website, then when I get to the airport they have bomb-proof postboxes and the book won't fit in the slot.

So I gave it to a nice man who said he would put it in the letterbox on his way home.

Like I said, fingers crossed.

I am oddly excited by this (saw it at Psycho's today) - we had one by the same author last time and I loved it

So it turned up? Yay!

This one is his first book, and it has his most-recurring main character, so if you like it there are lots more to read.

Hope you're having a good January, mine is great [smug I'm on holiday emoticon]

just found this....yep, it came.

flame more excited than me, I must admit, but I tried one of his books before and it was not one of my faves........I am determined this year tho to try harder than one chapter before giving up on books!

started the book the other day (was on patricia cornwells 'scarpetta', but cannot get into it so gave up for this book).

tis good, which I am really pleased about as I found it hard to get into another one by the same author, but one problem.......keep finding myself reading it in the accent it is set in......most odd!

See

ahh....was it the other book that you said you were doing this in??

Nope (or maybe), I dunno. Beloved was my most recent

See was about them being good books

I have finished the book

I liked it, it was good, but ever-so-slightly choppy between all the characters. plus a couple of characters had similarish names which got confusing.

not sure tho, TBVH, if I would rush out to buy any of his books.

Who had similarish names? I can't think now...

I find I can't read books set in japan (or fantasy books set in quasi-Japanese settings, more specifically) because I can't pronounce the names in my head and they are too similar, so I get confused and bogged down.

I'm guessing you mean Parlabane & Ponsonby?

Ah, see I didn't have a problem with that at all, but it may be because I didn't read the books in order and so Parlabane's name was quite familiar to me byt the time I got around to reading this book.

I'm not having a problem either, Psycho reads things differently to normal folk

Grrr damn all books that have the start of another one at the end! You think you have more to go and then realise you don't

I enjoyed it He appeals to my sense of humour Did prefer Sacred Art Of Stealing but I'm not too sure why...

Maybe it's on purpose, if you know the book is about to finish you make assumptions. I wish somehow there could be more pages than you think.

The tell-tale thinning of the pages...

I'm sure it's a quote from something, any clues?

I think I know what this one is! If it's who I think it is, he's one of my faves...and I always read in accent. Can't do anything but!

Am hoping it is and looking forward to re-reading.

Oops, just realised that further up I actually said the name of the main character.

So yes, it is what you think. But only people who had read it would know it, so I don't think it's too bad a spoiler, is it?

No Trillian...as you say, not much of a spoiler if you don't know the names.

Oooohhh...I love this author

Was it you who sent the last one Squilly? (were you in the swap last time? brain of sieve)