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Patrick Walker (Patrick_walker)
Username: Patrick_walker

Registered: 01-2010
Posted From: 188.28.105.26
Posted on Sunday, September 12, 2010 - 11:50 pm:   

Just started reading the proof of Harbour, the new John Ajvide Lindqvist novel. Quercus Books have proofs available if you wanted to try 'em.
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Tom_alaerts (Tom_alaerts)
Username: Tom_alaerts

Registered: 03-2008
Posted From: 194.78.35.185
Posted on Monday, September 13, 2010 - 02:57 pm:   

And what it's about?
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Kate (Kathleen)
Username: Kathleen

Registered: 09-2009
Posted From: 81.152.74.159
Posted on Monday, September 13, 2010 - 03:03 pm:   

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!
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Weber (Weber_gregston)
Username: Weber_gregston

Registered: 03-2008
Posted From: 194.176.105.55
Posted on Monday, September 13, 2010 - 06:46 pm:   

It's a ghost story from the blurb I've just read... set in a harbour. Which seems logical.
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Zed (Gary_mc)
Username: Gary_mc

Registered: 03-2008
Posted From: 81.96.253.77
Posted on Monday, September 13, 2010 - 08:46 pm:   

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.
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Kate (Kathleen)
Username: Kathleen

Registered: 09-2009
Posted From: 81.152.74.159
Posted on Monday, September 13, 2010 - 10:07 pm:   

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.
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Zed (Gary_mc)
Username: Gary_mc

Registered: 03-2008
Posted From: 81.96.253.77
Posted on Monday, September 13, 2010 - 10:22 pm:   

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.
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Kate (Kathleen)
Username: Kathleen

Registered: 09-2009
Posted From: 81.152.74.159
Posted on Tuesday, September 14, 2010 - 11:39 am:   

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.
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Mark_lynch (Mark_lynch)
Username: Mark_lynch

Registered: 03-2008
Posted From: 217.171.129.78
Posted on Tuesday, September 14, 2010 - 08:38 pm:   

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.

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