| Author | Message | ||
     Ramsey Campbell (Ramsey) Username: Ramsey Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 92.8.28.63 |
Vote if you care! http://www.theakstons.co.uk/#2 | ||
| Protodroid (Protodroid) Username: Protodroid Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 147.252.230.148 |
I misread this, thought this was about an old peculiar crime of Jamie Theakston. | ||
| Ramsey Campbell (Ramsey) Username: Ramsey Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 92.8.20.244 |
Hee hee! I've voted, though. | ||
| Weber (Weber_gregston) Username: Weber_gregston Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 86.184.108.152 |
Well that's six books I would have to read before I wa=ould be qualified to vote... Pass on that one I think | ||
| Craig (Craig) Username: Craig Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 99.126.164.88 |
Which ones did you read, and which one did you vote for, Ramsey, if I may ask?... | ||
| Ramsey Campbell (Ramsey) Username: Ramsey Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 92.8.25.87 |
To be honest, Craig, I didn't read all of them, but one I think is so remarkable that I wanted to register my enthusiasm. I also recommended it for the British Fantasy Award. | ||
| Craig (Craig) Username: Craig Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 99.126.164.88 |
Ah. Well I see that narrows it down to two, Ramsey....  | ||
| Mick Curtis (Mick) Username: Mick Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 86.178.159.240 |
I have two of these winging their way to me. Wonder which ones Ramsey's read? | ||
| Craig (Craig) Username: Craig Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 99.126.164.88 |
Mick, my own uncertain investigations have revealed, that the one Ramsey prefers is... but no, maybe he doesn't want to just come right out and trumpet it. Silence Must Be Followed. ... there's your clue. | ||
| Mick Curtis (Mick) Username: Mick Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 86.178.159.240 |
Sorry Craig - I'm too dim to work that one out! | ||
| Craig (Craig) Username: Craig Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 99.126.164.88 |
How about I tell you, Mick, the books I'm confident it's not - the ones by Connolley, Brookmyere, Bolton, Mina or Watson.  | ||
| Mick Curtis (Mick) Username: Mick Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 86.178.159.240 |
Cheers Craig - I now know that one of my two books was the 'right' one! | ||
| Mark_lynch (Mark_lynch) Username: Mark_lynch Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 94.197.127.73 |
Denise Mina won. And she made an interesting few comments about ebooks, and middle-class entitlement in publishing. In the last 10/15 years crime fiction's filled the gap left by the reduction of the horror section in bookstores, don't we think? If, say, Stephen Gallagher were starting his writing career today, books like Rain and Down River would be considered straight crime, and not horrors as they were originally published as. | ||
| Mick Curtis (Mick) Username: Mick Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 86.181.208.239 |
Well, so far I've read Black Flowers, which I thought was wonderful, and now I'm almost half way through Now You See Me, which I may well give up on... |