I loved this. But I loved The Cheese Monkeys as well. I like kinda sarcastic characters, snarky but not malicious...using it to cope and distance themselves. Kidd provides that. I read this on the bus on my way to and from college. Several times I had to just stop because of how it was tweaki...moreng my mind. Unforgettable to me.
"I just had to read this book for literature class. While normally being forced to read books leads to me overall disliking them, I enjoyed this one. This was a double surprise for me because I was prepared to dislike it because it's Dickens and the last time I had to read him for school it was Tale of Two Cities. (hello, massive symbolism)
I've read about 6 of his novels. This one ranks seco..."
""The Strange Affair of Spring Heeled Jack" takes place in an alt-history England of the early 1860's with a steampunk flavor and features the colorful Victorian era personality, (Sir) Richard Burton as the main hero. In a distinctive turn from "real history", Burton accepts a commission to become a "special agent" of the king - among other changes Queen Victoria was assassinated in 1840 - while h..."
"Two weeks past I was taking a stroll through Harvey Nicks and at the same time trying to keep an eye on my little hurricane so as to ensure dressing displays were not crashing to the floor when I came upon their small book section."
"In his quest for revenge, Verenti meets and falls in love with the adopted daughter of the lawyer who killed his father. Her relationship with her father was stretched to breaking point."
"Recently I chatted with Jeremy Green, Editor for Glass House Books, about the latest novel Sacrifice and a bit about Bloodline: Alliance. We even covered some advice for writers of fantasy."
"Shenna, a thief and outlaw, impulsively rescues a group of strangers from certain death, and is seriously wounded for her trouble. Now in her debt, the group nurses Shenna back to health. They offer her, and the wolf that never leaves her side, safety until she is well enough to leave them."
"I can't remember a time I wasn't writing. From the moment I bought my first notebook and started writing a novel at age eight, I knew it was what I wanted to do with my life."
"Books were such an intrinsic part of our family, that it was hard for me to imagine that both of my parents grew up without them, or that there were people out there who just didn't like to read."
""A novel about getting and spending, and about the substitutions we make when we can’t find what we’re looking for: reading cookbooks instead of cooking, speculating instead of creating, collecting instead of living. But above all it is about holding on to what is real in a virtual world: love that stays."
I would bet this book becomes a film in a few years."
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