Driven To Distraction

[ulstermayniac]

www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/0718155548/ref=pd_luc_sbs_02_02

New Jeremy book, and I can't see when this is being released either!!

f**king Amazon, why can't they be more clear about things.

[Deleted]

It's out 1st October 2009. the release dates are under the product details next to the publisher's name.

[ulstermayniac]

Ahhh, oh, I am having a bad day today.

Thank you, oh wise leader lady.

[TheDaisy]

This sounds like a good one! Why are there going to be so many great books out this year?
*repeat to self*I must be patient and wait for paperbacks.

[Vixen]

Can't wait for it to come out, I might have to bag myself a boyfriend around that time so he can buy it for me ;D Books are always better as presents

[TheDaisy]

Books are great as presents! Which is why I always have to buy my own TOH hardly ever reads anything, apart from his techie manuals.

[ulstermayniac]

I love hardback books, always prefer those to paperbacks.

[TheDaisy]

I'm very careless with books - marking my page by leaving them face down on the table, using them as doorstops, that kinda thing ;D If I'm going to destroy a book, it might as well be a cheaper book, then it won't cost as much to replace it

[Vixen]

See, if my books are paperback, I'm a lot more careless with them too. But if it's hardback, I'm so anal about it. When I read it, I have to take the paper cover off, and if it's a book I've bought, but am not neccessarily going to read, (like my DTB one) I hate the spine being bent and the pages being flattened. (Wich is exactly what Oz did. I had to restrain myself from telling him off about it!)

[ulstermayniac]

See, I love my books and I was taught by my Nan that having nice things like that is a privilege and that they shouldn't be taken for granted. She was a War Baby and when she was growing up things like that were very few and far between and she instilled in me her values where things were concerned, and how not to waste food, and they have stayed with me. I could never begin to think about destroying a book and when I see one all dog eared and tatty it does make me sad. I have paperback books and I have read them all several times and they all look like they have never been read at all, they still look new.

[TheDaisy]

Ah well, most of my books are (at the very best) second hand from charity shops. The only time I could really afford brand new books was when I worked in a book shop (and got up to 50% staff discount ;D). A nice new book is a rarity for me.

[ulstermayniac]

I have a couple of tatty ones, paperbacks, but they were bought from a charity shop, and a couple of old hardbacks I bought from the local town centre library book sale.

[Deleted]

Don't get me started on books, like Vix I'm quite anal about mine. Regardless of them being paperback or hardback I treat them with great care. I do like old book shops.

[TheDaisy]

*smiles* I actually have quite a big collection of semi-antique children's books (that I still read sometimes, I am nothing but a big kid deep down ;D) and those get treated like royalty. It's current books that can be replaced easily that get chucked about round here.

[ulstermayniac]

I am not the only book loony here! That makes my heart smile.

[Vixen]

I love books, and if I'm buying them new, I like them to *look* new. But if I get them from a second hand book store, I like them to look like they've been read a few hundred times, if that makes sense?

[ulstermayniac]

It does indeed. I bought a book from a charity shop that was well read and the only reason I bought it was because it had a skull on the cover, well part of it. It was called The Wasp Factory by Iain Banks and it was, when I read the blurb on the back, a bit up my street, dark, macabre all that, so I gave it a go, read it and I was hooked! I ended up reading it about 4 times. Weird story, unusual twist at the end, which you really do never see coming, genuinely, and it was great. Haven't read it in years though. Iain Banks has a very weird and twisted imagination but I am not complaining.

[Vixen]

The only twisted mind I would complain about is Stephen King. I read one book by him, and one minute everything was fine, then some guy was chewing a dog's ear off. I'll never read *his* stuff again!

[ulstermayniac]

Well then this one by Iain Banks might not be for you then, there are some darkly odd bits in it like skulls and dead bees and wasps.

[TheDaisy]

Do NOT read Richard Laymon then. He makes Stephen King look like a pussycat

[ulstermayniac]

Never heard of him.

[TheDaisy]

You don't want to have done, seriously

[Mystik]

Jun 2, 2009 19:14:55 GMT TheDaisy said:

Do NOT read Richard Laymon then. He makes Stephen King look like a pussycat

Any Richard Laymon recommendations, daisy?

[TheDaisy]

Heh, I've only read one of his books - it was the only thing I could find that I *thought* I might like to read while stuck in the house in a snowstorm in Devon a few years ago. Can't even remember the title, but it was horrific *shivers* Never again.

[onthewingsoflove]

Good title for Jeremy this, Drive to Distraction, he does and has often done so even without his knowing

[vanderdb9]

can't wait for it to be released here!

[misspan]

Man I haven't gotten around to getting his last one. Or come to think of it, read much of the other four I all ready have haha

[ulstermayniac]

Well what I always say is that it is better to have something and never get around to reading it than to not have it at all.