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     Zed (Gary_mc) Username: Gary_mc Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 81.96.242.126 |
As we all now know, Humdrumming has gone bust, so if anyone would like to buy a copy of Rain Dogs for half the RRP (plus postage) check out my website: http://www.garymcmahon.com/ I hate doing this to people who've already paid full price for the book, but I desperately need to recoup some lost royalties. Hurry. They're selling fast... | ||
| Zed (Gary_mc) Username: Gary_mc Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 81.96.242.126 |
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| Zed (Gary_mc) Username: Gary_mc Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 81.96.242.126 |
No takers? They're going fast... | ||
| Weber_gregston (Weber_gregston) Username: Weber_gregston Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 83.98.9.4 |
Can you hold onto a copy for me till next month? There's no way I can afford anything that classes as a luxury for the next couple of weeks. | ||
| Mark_lynch (Mark_lynch) Username: Mark_lynch Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 80.225.209.214 |
Ack! Bloody Xmas coming and he starts a sale . . . How much is P&P? If it's £25 then no, but if it's not much then I'll have one. How can I dosh you up, mate? | ||
| Hubert (Hubert) Username: Hubert Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 78.22.236.222 |
Same here. Right now I cannot even afford the books I SHOULD be buying - law- and social casework-related stuff which I'm borrowing from assorted libraries (sometimes far afield) so I can xerox what I need. | ||
| Zed (Gary_mc) Username: Gary_mc Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 81.96.242.126 |
Can you hold onto a copy for me till next month? No problem, mate - I'll put one aside. Just let me know when you want it. Mark - £12.50 including postage. Cheap as chips, but hopefully the meal is more satisfying.  Do you have paypal? Email me... | ||
| Weber_gregston (Weber_gregston) Username: Weber_gregston Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 83.98.9.4 |
Thanx. I've not got Paypal so I'll need to send a cheque. Can you email me your address to efilsgod_at_hotmail.co.uk. Most grateful. Ta | ||
| Craig (Craig) Username: Craig Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 75.5.15.199 |
Gary - send me a review copy, and go ahead and deduct it as a tax write-off. I'd mail you a check, but something's wrong with my bank: my check's keep coming back "insufficient funds." Jesus, you'd think a BANK of all places would have some MONEY in it!  | ||
| Karim Ghahwagi (Karim) Username: Karim Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 80.167.124.223 |
If you look in the space to the left, between two of the books, at the top of the frame Zed, just beside the couch, there are a pair of what looks like occupied shoes, the body facing the wall or maybe crouched under a table - just as you snapped the picture. | ||
| Zed (Gary_mc) Username: Gary_mc Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 81.96.242.126 |
They're my son shoes; he always puts them there, the little beggar...if you look to the right of the books, you can see the edge of his Bob the Builder playball. | ||
| Karim Ghahwagi (Karim) Username: Karim Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 80.167.124.223 |
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| Tony (Tony) Username: Tony Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 81.129.21.168 |
The weird thing is, it looks like a kid standing up in a cupboard, on tippy toe, behind (in?) a dress or curtain. | ||
| Zed (Gary_mc) Username: Gary_mc Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 213.219.8.243 |
It's like Thre Man and a Baby all over again... ;-) | ||
| Zed (Gary_mc) Username: Gary_mc Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 213.219.8.243 |
I really should proof read thes posts before I hit send... | ||
| Weber_gregston (Weber_gregston) Username: Weber_gregston Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 83.98.9.4 |
ys yu shoud | ||
| Weber_gregston (Weber_gregston) Username: Weber_gregston Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 83.98.9.4 |
Could it be you're trying to send an unconsious anti-drugs message? Don't use e's? | ||
| Karim Ghahwagi (Karim) Username: Karim Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 80.167.124.223 |
Take another picture Zed, maybe the shoes will pop up in another photo again. I highly recommend this book BTW, to those who don't have a copy. Also a beautiful edition. | ||
| Mark_lynch (Mark_lynch) Username: Mark_lynch Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 212.74.96.200 |
>>Do you have paypal? Email me... Okay-cokay. Give me an evening to sort something out. | ||
| Zed (Gary_mc) Username: Gary_mc Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 81.96.242.126 |
Okey-dokey, blokey, | ||
| Des (Des) Username: Des Registered: 06-2008 Posted From: 86.145.36.225 |
RAIN DOGS by Gary McMahon Humdrumming (2008) Ever since publishing stories by Gary McMahon in 'Nemonymous' in 2004 and 2005, I've been a fan of his writing. But I approached his first novel with trepidation to see if he could transfer his undoubted skills in the short form towards the longer.... I should have had no such fears. Not those fears anyway. I wrote this out for myself about RAIN DOGS when only up to Chapter 9 of this novel:- ...savouring each moment of driving, compulsive destiny (a heightened physical (sexual) and spiritual (spectral) destiny) - hubris and nemesis - amid the relentless raining of words (sharp-edged cliches of fiction as well as startlingly original phrases in a symbiosis of both modernity and timelessness). How pretentious of me! But never mind, it's all still true. In fact, Gary McMahon writes in his Afterword: "I wanted my debut novel to be a simple story told in a simple manner, with no clever post-modern tricks or literary pyrotechnics." Let me tell you, in that, he succeeded and failed, respectively, in the best possible way! This book is the optimum of body and contents - a beautiful book in itself - and it is a tragedy that its publisher Humdrumming has recently been subjected to the Financial Meltdown - its form as a book-in-itself absolutely perfect for the novel of teeming words it contains - an aesthetic whole that should be on sale in all the shops - and indeed is a better popular-style, simply better written novel than most novels that are currently being sold on the mass market, I'm sure. It would be a genuine best-seller in different circumstances, if the luck had run with McMahon and his dogs. It still might. It deserves to do so. There are touches of life in this novel that startle as YES,THAT'S A WONDERFUL SLANT ON LIFE THESE DAYS. Little snippets that tease and lead. Formed from the rain of words like angels and monsters. It conveys life as it is now, its hard survivals, mental and physical abuses, beautifully drawn believable characters, and inherent real and supernatural fears that most of us blot out...fears that are now in direct current socket to socket from author to reader ... and (supernaturally?) back again!! It has horror and beauty as one. Optimistic by being so utterly pessimistic. It is a Metaphor for the Meltdown. "People survived; it's what they did.".  | ||
| Zed (Gary_mc) Username: Gary_mc Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 81.96.242.126 |
Wow. Thank you, Des. I'm actually moved by your kind review. | ||
| Weber_gregston (Weber_gregston) Username: Weber_gregston Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 212.121.214.11 |
Thanx Zed. This dropped through my door the other day. Looking forward to reading it. | ||
| Zed (Gary_mc) Username: Gary_mc Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 81.96.242.126 |
Excellent! Hope you enjoy it, mate. | ||
| Weber_gregston (Weber_gregston) Username: Weber_gregston Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 212.121.214.11 |
You'll find out if I don't, I know where you live.  |