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     Patrick Walker (Patrick_walker) Username: Patrick_walker Registered: 01-2010 Posted From: 188.28.105.26 |
Just started reading the proof of Harbour, the new John Ajvide Lindqvist novel. Quercus Books have proofs available if you wanted to try 'em. | ||
| Tom_alaerts (Tom_alaerts) Username: Tom_alaerts Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 194.78.35.185 |
And what it's about? | ||
| Kate (Kathleen) Username: Kathleen Registered: 09-2009 Posted From: 81.152.74.159 |
Oh, I can't wait for that one! I don't know or even care what it's about - I loved his first two so much I trust him completely!  | ||
| Weber (Weber_gregston) Username: Weber_gregston Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 194.176.105.55 |
It's a ghost story from the blurb I've just read... set in a harbour. Which seems logical. | ||
| Zed (Gary_mc) Username: Gary_mc Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 81.96.253.77 |
Kate - I take it his second novel is a good 'un? I have a copy but am yet to read it, but I absolutely bloody adored Let The Right One In. | ||
| Kate (Kathleen) Username: Kathleen Registered: 09-2009 Posted From: 81.152.74.159 |
I loved it, Zed. There are a lot of mixed reviews and some say it ultimately doesn't go anywhere, but you and I have similar tastes and I suspect you'll like the same things about it that I did. Obviously I'm being careful to avoid spoilers, so I can't say much more than that.  | ||
| Zed (Gary_mc) Username: Gary_mc Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 81.96.253.77 |
I'm going to have to read it next, aren't I? It's now jumped ahead of about 7 other books... This sold it for me: and some say it ultimately doesn't go anywhere Whenever a reviewer says that about a book or a film, I know immediately that I'm going to like it. | ||
| Kate (Kathleen) Username: Kathleen Registered: 09-2009 Posted From: 81.152.74.159 |
It made me cry, Zed. It's perhaps flawed (aren't we all?) but it does for zombies what Let The Right One In did for vampires. Namely - makes them *real* and puts them in a powerful emotional context. | ||
| Mark_lynch (Mark_lynch) Username: Mark_lynch Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 217.171.129.78 |
He's agreed to do a UK signing tour, according to the Bookseller. Doing Newcastle in the north, I seem to remember. I really got a kick out of reading Let The Right One In. Transported me back to loving horror in the 80s, the time of the big beasts selling by the bucket. When King, Herbert, Barker and Straub and Ramsey seemed to be in every bookstore in the country. Haven't read the second book, though! Doh. |