Wednesday, 9 May 2007
Great read !!!!!!
"He was sick of the excuses and the lies. He was tired of the evasions and the untruths, of people refusing to stand up and speak the truth and take responsibility for their own actions. It seemed to him like yet another symptom of the decline of Western civilisation; of night drawing nigh and mere anarchy loosed upon the world, and the centre cannot hold; and chaos; and climate change; and environmental disaster; and war; disease; famine; oppression; the eternal slow slide down and down and down. It was tragedy. It was disgrace. It was entropy, nemesis, apotheosis, imminent apocalypse and sheer bad manners all rolled into one. People were not returning their library books on time"
Excerpt from Mr Dixon Disappears. Second book in the Mobile Library series from Ian Samson.
I just read book one of this series today "The Case of the Missing Books". Fantastic !!! An easy read! Samson's writing is a cross between Jasper Fforde and Alexander McCall Smith with a little Stephen Donaldson thrown in.
I love it and highly recommend it to all readers and library users everywhere!
5 comments:
That is a great excerpt.
That sounds exactly like something I would write, and the twist right there on the end - fantastic! Sounds like some books after my own heart. Off to see if they exist in the printed-matter void of America, the Hall County Library System....
That sounds like a great read! I just finished Danielle Steel H.R.H. http://tinyurl.com/39hkml and that was a great book too. Now I can start on my Amanda Ashley books, I just got Deeper Than the Night, Shades of Gray, A Whisper of Eternity, After Sundown, Nights Kiss, and Desire After Dark all from www.paperbackswap.com. I have all 11 books now and the 12th one Night's Touch isn't released until 7/07. I should have all 11 read by then!!!
Chele
Sounds like a more grown up version of Jasper Fforde!! Cool....
Onto Book 5 of the Dresdens and don't have dosh for any more after that...will have to raid the library and have them order the rest in.....
Read up to number 8 in the Dresden Files. Can't find number nine anywhere in the country !!!!
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