Recent content by garryg

I was having a look around over on Good Reads .com recently, and was surprised to find the top fore volumes in their ‘Highbrow Fantasy Books’ section listed in descending order as: ‘Lord of the rings,’ ‘Wattership down,’ ‘The Hobbit,’ and finally ‘Alice in wonderland and Through the...

Again I’m confused by what we are calling self-publishing here? I have just under 2,000 free downloads for short-stories I put up on e-publishing sites, and all of them have links to the pay-for download I have recently released. This is all only a bit of an experiment just now, but nobody who...

Who else has read Jeff Noon’s books? I have to say that after coming across the original rung-pull version of ‘Vurt’ entirely by ancient when it was first published I was instantly hooked, and this led me to get most of his later books as they appeared. Now, I will agree they were not all of...

I probably liked the Mort books and the Wtches books best.

I'd start ether at the beginning or with ‘Reaper Man.' if you don't like that one, then you won't like Diskworld in general IMO. I bought and read them all ,in order, at release time, as they were published… yes I know, I’m old. That was the only one I didn't finish! I keep meaning to read it...

I would probably second those, but I did really like 'Needfull Things' and 'The Tommyknockers.' The Langoliers story from Four Past Midnight stayed with me for a long time after reading, another one that seemed a lot les fantastical in the film version. Misery was also a very memorable book...

My top three would probably be 3) The Luggage 4) The Librarian, 1) Death (obviously, as it's one of the main overriding story-arc characters) ;) But where is the Great A'Tuin in that list? Arguably the 'biggest' non-human character in all of the books :D And also no Hex – The University’s...

I feel I,ve failed somehow when a read puts a different spin on their interpritation of my work, from what I intended.

Ah, I remembered that after I read your reply :innocent: In my defence, I'm not American :whistling:

Why should it matter?

Sorry, but I don’t think these things are similar in the slightest. By now you’ve probably guessed I’m an amateur writer, and yes I have joined quite a few primarily reading based forums, why? Well believe it or not, I read a lot, and like books ;) As anyone who writes will tell you, it’s...

As I’ve recently said in another thread, it’s all relative. And please don’t let other people tell you what’s good and bad, read it and make up your own mind. I wouldn’t say ‘The Lost symbol’ was bad writing. It isn’t going to change my life or anything, but it was an interesting yarn while it...

Surely the whole premise is too subjective to give an absolute answer on! For example, my wife is a fairly prolific reader but can’t read the Diskworld books, and those are hardly written for the intelligentsia. Surely it’s entirely down people liking and not-liking different styles. Hoards...

Well I read both ‘Angels & Demons’ and ‘The Da Vinci Code’ some time after seeing the films, but not as a direct result of watching the films. After reading the books I did go and get ‘The Lost Symbol’ though, and I think that was the best of the three books. Almost every time I’ve done it the...

Is Christian the same as religious, as far as publishers are concerned? I've had a lot of rejections for a 'religious' short story, even though a few of the editors have replied and said they personally liked the story, I just can't find a place for it!