The Books Thread

Placebo said:
I guess as we enjoy American crime dramas the most it seems fitting :)
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Fair enough! If our internet is sorted our, I'll sign up tonight. That part of the page is blocked by my work proxy for some reason.
 
Nice one! I want to write my own book aswell, I have started doing all of the background work, with characters and some storyline. I think it is going to be a hobby for many years though before I will finish it, probably be an old man, but it will be nice to have done it.

Good luck with the book, I hope it is a big success :DD
 
BobbyBox said:
Good luck with the book, I hope it is a big success :DD
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Thanks, I hope so too! I think she's incredibly talented, but of course I'm slightly biased ;) She's currently working on the 2nd draft of her SOPA/PIPA/ACTA inspired book "Land of the Free" :)

http://www.npstatham.com/2012/02/land-of-free.html

'Land of the Free' is my personal protest against the way serious laws like SOPA, PIPA and ACTA are being addressed. I believe that copyright is a serious issue, and thousands of artists suffer from piracy. Addressing this problem is necessary, and this is not what I object to. What I can't agree with is the off-handed way in which those laws are being advanced with loop-holes that promote censorship and control of information. This has nothing to do with copyright, and as an independent artist and fierce Internet user I cannot sit idly while laws that threaten freedom of speech and information are promoted world-wide. So I use the only weapons available to me - my words, and my imagination.

I leave you with a taste of what's to come:

"Once there was chaos. Information was disseminated. Power was trickled down into the hands of many, so rarified it was virtually non-existent.


The moment all of humankind gained instant access to information, specialists became obsolete. Knowledge itself became obsolete. Nobody knew what the truth was anymore or who to trust, all the while confidence tricksters and scammers engorged themselves from the ignorance of the masses. In a world where the promise of becoming a celebrity or an over-night millionaire was one click away, an unprecedented level of poverty festered as millions pursued false dreams.


It was the age of the virtual gold rush.


Economies could no longer compete against the virtual market. Chaos ensued as none could agree on what constituted currency anymore. Economists didn't know how to sustain a financial exchange that had no value outside of the digital world.


2006 marked the first world-wide economic crises. Billions were left unemployed, hundreds of millions of small business went bankrupt or were bought over by the large companies. The gap between the poor and the rich became wider than ever. After ten years, the economic markets still hadn't recovered. Nor would they, unless something drastic was done.


It wasn't until the mid-2010s that the first virtual policies were instituted. By 2030 the virtual wild-west had been tamed. Knowledge was restored and its access carefully regulated by a new Agency called DRIFT - Department of Regulation of InFormaTion. Access levels were instituted varying from one to six and the economy started to flourish again. That had been eight years ago, and the man who implemented those changes was Charles Edward Redknapp the First, my great-grandfather.


I'm Kyle Redknapp, first of the name, current Head of DRIFT in the year 2095. And I'm the only level seven citizen in the world.


This is my story."
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My wife's first book is out now (came out last week) and she's taking up the option of one of the allowed free days on Kindle, so for this weekend only it's completely free from Amazon Kindle!

http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B008B7STWU
http://www.amazon.com/dp/B008B7STWU (will show a charge for any non-USA IPs )

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"It's the eyes of the victims that haunt me in my sleep, but it's the accusing faces of the families that keep me awake at night." - Detective Milesson, Mora PD, MN.

It wasn't supposed to be like this. Rick Stone was only sixteen, he should be having the time of his life, enjoying his senior year, having a blast. But it wasn't to be so. One phone call had changed everything. His older brother, Theodore, was dead; and it was all Rick's fault.

Trying to come to terms with his brother's murder, Rick is confronted with how little he truly knows about his older brother, a courtroom artist, and about himself. As Rick starts to question the society and values he grew up in, bringing his brother's killer to justice is no longer merely about closure; it's necessary to keep the ones he loves safe. And it's up to Detective Milesson to make sure that Rick Stone comes out of it alive.
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My wife's second novel is published now :)

System Czech
With Christmas creeping around the corner, all that Tove wanted to do was to hide from family drama and the real world into the safety of cyberspace with her pug girl, Q. Stockpiled with enough coffee to wake the dead, Tove was ready to take a well-deserved break from hacking and sharpen her blade in the Mists of Pandaria, to the sound of Big Bang Theory and re-runs of X-Files. She might even try her luck at DayZ - hopefully without having all her stuff pinched.

Well, if only.

Press-ganged into action by Interpol, Tove finds herself stuck in Prague, with a target painted on her back, and forced to play spy-games with her BFFs computer whiz Arnie and the gadget guy of the group, Ota - who also happens to be determined to set her up. Running against the clock, going undercover, chasing terrorists, and fending off a group of black-hats, what could go wrong?
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Available in Kindle format and paperback from Amazon and various E-book formats from Smashwords :)

http://www.amazon.com/N.-P.-Statham/e/B008BFKC0Y/ref=ntt_athr_dp_pel_1
http://www.amazon.com/System-Czech-..._B008BFKC0Y_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1356256137&sr=1-2
https://www.smashwords.com/books/view/267370
 
With the hype around the Game of Thrones tv series I have picked up the books to read, and I've rattled through to the 4th book (the actual 4th book, not the second part to the third book) in 3 months, addicting reads!

More of a Harry Potter fan, I've never read Lord of the Rings because of this I've also picked them up so its going to be a long long reading year.

I hope to buy more series of books along the lines of GoT or LOTR if you guys could suggest some! (Anyone kind enough to amazon link me them, it'd be appreciated!)
 
Taylor_94 said:
With the hype around the Game of Thrones tv series I have picked up the books to read, and I've rattled through to the 4th book (the actual 4th book, not the second part to the third book) in 3 months, addicting reads!

More of a Harry Potter fan, I've never read Lord of the Rings because of this I've also picked them up so its going to be a long long reading year.

I hope to buy more series of books along the lines of GoT or LOTR if you guys could suggest some! (Anyone kind enough to amazon link me them, it'd be appreciated!)
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http://www.amazon.co.uk/The-Name-Wi...d=1369683660&sr=8-1&keywords=name+of+the+wind

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Blade-Itsel...d=1369683718&sr=1-2&keywords=the+blade+itself

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Knife-Never...749&sr=1-1&keywords=knife+of+never+letting+go

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Prince-Thor...d=1369683833&sr=1-1&keywords=prince+of+thorns

All are really good and highly recommended.

Feel free to add me on Goodreads, I've rated a fair few books that I've read and I'm sure you'll find some others that take your interest.

http://www.goodreads.com/user/show/5090610-darren-thomas
 
DagsJT said:
http://www.amazon.co.uk/The-Name-Wi...d=1369683660&sr=8-1&keywords=name+of+the+wind

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Blade-Itsel...d=1369683718&sr=1-2&keywords=the+blade+itself

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Knife-Never...749&sr=1-1&keywords=knife+of+never+letting+go

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Prince-Thor...d=1369683833&sr=1-1&keywords=prince+of+thorns

All are really good and highly recommended.

Feel free to add me on Goodreads, I've rated a fair few books that I've read and I'm sure you'll find some others that take your interest.

http://www.goodreads.com/user/show/5090610-darren-thomas
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Thanks for these I've bought the first one and will add it to my list to read looks pretty good, and I will look in to that website next time on my computer, thanks again :)
 
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