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Des (Des) Username: Des
Registered: 09-2010 Posted From: 86.153.238.8
| Posted on Saturday, September 25, 2010 - 10:03 pm: | |
Halfway through my real-time review of THE PLACES BETWEEN by Terry Grimwood: http://nullimmortalis.wordpress.com/2010/09/25/the-places-between-by-terry-grimw ood/ Am I going mad or is the book? Find out tomorrow. des |
Simon Bestwick (Simon_b) Username: Simon_b
Registered: 10-2008 Posted From: 86.24.209.217
| Posted on Saturday, September 25, 2010 - 11:22 pm: | |
Des! Welcome back! It's great to see you here again. You've been sorely missed. |
Carolinec (Carolinec) Username: Carolinec
Registered: 06-2009 Posted From: 82.38.75.85
| Posted on Saturday, September 25, 2010 - 11:25 pm: | |
Seconded! |
Mick Curtis (Mick)
Username: Mick
Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 86.177.115.63
| Posted on Sunday, September 26, 2010 - 12:09 am: | |
Thirdeded! |
Allybird (Allybird) Username: Allybird
Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 88.111.138.146
| Posted on Sunday, September 26, 2010 - 09:28 am: | |
Hi Des. Welcome back! |
Des (Des) Username: Des
Registered: 09-2010 Posted From: 86.153.238.8
| Posted on Sunday, September 26, 2010 - 09:42 am: | |
Hi, thanks. Sorry for the glitch. Another glitch coming up shortly when I go on holiday. |
Gary Fry (Gary_fry)
Username: Gary_fry
Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 86.31.244.154
| Posted on Sunday, September 26, 2010 - 10:18 am: | |
Where ya going, Des? |
Des (Des) Username: Des
Registered: 09-2010 Posted From: 86.153.238.8
| Posted on Sunday, September 26, 2010 - 10:21 am: | |
On a ground-level trip to St Petersburg. |
Gary Fry (Gary_fry)
Username: Gary_fry
Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 86.31.244.154
| Posted on Sunday, September 26, 2010 - 10:30 am: | |
Wow. Nice one. Take some piccies to show us. |
Allybird (Allybird) Username: Allybird
Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 88.111.138.146
| Posted on Sunday, September 26, 2010 - 10:31 am: | |
When are you off and come back? That destination is very exciting. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saint_Petersburg |
Des (Des) Username: Des
Registered: 09-2010 Posted From: 86.153.238.8
| Posted on Sunday, September 26, 2010 - 10:32 am: | |
Off roughly the first half of October. We'll also be visiting Places Between. |
Frank (Frank) Username: Frank
Registered: 09-2008 Posted From: 85.222.86.21
| Posted on Sunday, September 26, 2010 - 11:15 am: | |
Des - welcome back, pal. |
Steve Bacon (Stevebacon)
Username: Stevebacon
Registered: 09-2008 Posted From: 90.211.103.120
| Posted on Monday, September 27, 2010 - 10:16 pm: | |
Glad to see you back, Des. You were missed. |
Steve Bacon (Stevebacon)
Username: Stevebacon
Registered: 09-2008 Posted From: 90.211.103.120
| Posted on Monday, September 27, 2010 - 10:22 pm: | |
Forgot to say - I bought this at Fantasycon. While I was queueing up for the various book launches, my wife - who doesn't really read horror fiction - started it, rather than stare around the room like an idiot. She thought it was excellent. I don't know what she was expecting (maybe the fact that the only stuff she reads are my own efforts) but she was impressed enough to recommend it to one of her friends. I'm looking forward to reading it myself soon. |
Des (Des) Username: Des
Registered: 09-2010 Posted From: 86.152.183.210
| Posted on Monday, September 27, 2010 - 11:25 pm: | |
Hi, Steve, thanks. It is a very strange book. "...the most smothering images of slough and slop and slug I’ve ever read," - from my review of it. |
Gary Fry (Gary_fry)
Username: Gary_fry
Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 86.31.244.154
| Posted on Tuesday, September 28, 2010 - 07:16 am: | |
I bought this, too. Looking forward to it. |
Mbfg (Mbfg) Username: Mbfg
Registered: 09-2010 Posted From: 212.219.63.204
| Posted on Tuesday, September 28, 2010 - 09:22 am: | |
Hello Des thanks for your, as usual, mighty review of “The Places Between”. I loved the ebb and flow and outright bewilderment of your reading experience. Daft? Yes, that as well. I deliberately made the fantastical element as fantastical as I was able. Bosch? Absolutely. And fast? I pitched the original and long-lost version to Jo Fletcher at the 2004 FantasyCon and she told me it was too slow! It was written in the aftermath of a catastrophic personal tragedy, the same tragedy that fashioned many of the stories in "The Exaggerated Man". Where the latter was perhaps a more measured examination of that time in my life, much of it written as it was taking pale, a real-time review if you like, "The Places Between", is a white hot furnace of emotions, a Bosch-Dali collaborative landscape of my subconscious all to the soundtrack of Saint-Saens’ "Aquarium of the Fishes". I hope that isn't a spoiler and I know the worst person to discuss a story is its author but I couldn’t resist it. So, again, thanks Des, without you the small press would be, well, small. And thanks to everyone who has bought it so far. I’m glad your wife enjoyed the book Steve, I've been waiting a female reaction to the book with some trepidation. Regards Terry |
Des (Des) Username: Des
Registered: 09-2010 Posted From: 94.247.241.35
| Posted on Tuesday, October 12, 2010 - 12:58 pm: | |
In St Petersburg - tomorrow Helsinki 'Places Between' so far - Berlin, Warsaw, Moscow.... |
Carolinec (Carolinec) Username: Carolinec
Registered: 06-2009 Posted From: 82.38.75.85
| Posted on Tuesday, October 12, 2010 - 01:29 pm: | |
Hi Des - hope you're having a great holiday! |
Des (Des) Username: Des
Registered: 09-2010 Posted From: 86.169.220.209
| Posted on Sunday, October 17, 2010 - 07:44 pm: | |
Thanks, Caroline. Safely home. Greatly enjoyable, stressful, too, more a rite of passage than a holiday. I expect I will do a blog about it. Places Between included Warsaw, Berlin, Novrogod, Minsk, Moscow, St Petersburg, Helsinki, Stockholm, Copenhagen... Some of these cities were part of a fact-finding mission to enable me to complete my real-time review of NEVER AGAIN! |
Allybird (Allybird) Username: Allybird
Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 88.111.132.33
| Posted on Monday, October 18, 2010 - 12:48 am: | |
Welcome home Des! Tell us what you've been up to when you have the time, and indeed I'm looking forward to reading the rest of the real-time review. |
Des (Des) Username: Des
Registered: 09-2010 Posted From: 81.155.23.31
| Posted on Monday, October 18, 2010 - 09:27 pm: | |
Ally, here's me with Mikhail Shemyakin's sculpture of Peter The Great in St Petersburg last week: And here's me with some retrocausal bears in Berlin and Helsinki: http://nullimmortalis.wordpress.com/2010/10/18/retrocausal-bear/ |
Allybird (Allybird) Username: Allybird
Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 88.111.132.33
| Posted on Tuesday, October 19, 2010 - 07:58 am: | |
Ecellent! Keep all the news of the trip coming. |
Gary Fry (Gary_fry)
Username: Gary_fry
Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 86.179.137.187
| Posted on Tuesday, October 19, 2010 - 09:06 am: | |
What an elegant statuesque figure! The one seated behind is also pretty cool. |
Mbfg (Mbfg) Username: Mbfg
Registered: 09-2010 Posted From: 212.219.63.204
| Posted on Tuesday, October 19, 2010 - 11:34 am: | |
eh...which one is Des? |
Des (Des) Username: Des
Registered: 09-2010 Posted From: 86.158.237.247
| Posted on Monday, November 08, 2010 - 06:52 pm: | |
Another photograph taken on my recent trip:
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Des (Des) Username: Des
Registered: 09-2010 Posted From: 86.158.237.247
| Posted on Monday, November 08, 2010 - 06:58 pm: | |
That was taken at the Glypotek. Cf Mark Samuels' GLYPHOTECH |
Des (Des) Username: Des
Registered: 09-2010 Posted From: 86.158.237.247
| Posted on Tuesday, November 09, 2010 - 02:40 pm: | |
I'm creating a Lulu book of all my real-time reviews to date - with that photo as its front cover. des |
Mbfg (Mbfg) Username: Mbfg
Registered: 09-2010 Posted From: 212.219.63.204
| Posted on Tuesday, November 09, 2010 - 03:54 pm: | |
Enjoyed readng about your journey into the places between. And lokign forward to your collected reviews. have you used Lulu beofre? I'm interested in your experience. "The Exaggerated Man" is a lulu book. Regards Terry |
Des (Des) Username: Des
Registered: 09-2010 Posted From: 86.158.237.247
| Posted on Tuesday, November 09, 2010 - 05:22 pm: | |
Thanks, Terry. The first volume of my Real-Time Reviews is now ready! http://www.lulu.com/product/paperback/real-time-reviews---volume-one/13571584 Over 400 pages |
Carolinec (Carolinec) Username: Carolinec
Registered: 06-2009 Posted From: 92.232.199.129
| Posted on Tuesday, November 09, 2010 - 09:22 pm: | |
Yep, Terry, he's used Lulu before. I've just bought his novellas, Strollers and The Visitor, from there. Pop over to lulu.com and look for DF Lewis. (BTW am I on commission, Des? ) |