podga Posted October 21, 2012 Posted October 21, 2012 Once upon a time if you told doctors you heard voices, they’d diagnose you as schizophrenic, put you on heavy drugs, and lock you away in a cozy state institution to keep you from hurting yourself or others. Nowadays they test you first to see if you’re psychic.
Xtro Posted October 21, 2012 Posted October 21, 2012 I'm staying out of this one - recognised it from a Goodreads thread I was with recently. Not sure I like the writing style, but it seems to have a fan base.
Palantir Posted October 26, 2012 Posted October 26, 2012 Whoo! - The rest of us seem to be clueless on this one. - I think we need some help.
podga Posted October 28, 2012 Posted October 28, 2012 Okay. It's from the first book of a series. Protagonists are gay and are cops. As far as I know these are only e-published, so Andy, don't get thrown out of a bookstore again!
Xtro Posted October 28, 2012 Posted October 28, 2012 There is a paperback version, but it has #1 & #2 and, AFAIK, it's PoD
podga Posted October 28, 2012 Posted October 28, 2012 Xtro, I think you're going to have to take this, even if you don't like the books. It's been a week.
Andy78 Posted November 2, 2012 Posted November 2, 2012 Yep, come on Xtro, do tell. I have no idea (and it looks like nobody else does either), and we need to move on.
Xtro Posted November 2, 2012 Posted November 2, 2012 (edited) Among The Living by Jordan Castillo Price - the first of the PsyCops material. "Leave me alone, will you?" he pleaded. "Please, just leave me alone." I inched closer along the windowsill, hoping he wouldn't notice. He noticed. "Stay where you are. You come any closer, I'm gonna jump, you hear me?" (printing history in this copy - 1995 Walker & Co 1st Edition - 1996 Avon Paperbacks - 2006 Pan UK Paperback.) Quote from the back cover blurb: Whoever said that a little learning is a dangerous thing must have spent some time listening to Caroline Nobel. The kid could talk... By the time we were halfway to Everett, I was prepared to dispense with the sex and get right to the violence. And pologies for the delay - seems like my New Content button isn't working here - I get nothing in the box where I used to get all the forum topics I'm in. Ho Hum... Edited November 2, 2012 by Xtro
Xtro Posted November 3, 2012 Posted November 3, 2012 Okay, the author sounds like 2 American car manufacturers. This was his debut novel, and marked the first of a six-book series with the lead character Leo Waterman.
Xtro Posted November 6, 2012 Posted November 6, 2012 It was G. M. Ford and the book was Who The Hell Is Wanda Fuca Okay, let's try something a little more modern Gray sea, gray sky, but fire in the woods and the trees aflame. No heat, no smoke, but still the forests burned, crowning with red and yellow and orange; a cold conflagration with the coming of fall, and the leaves resignedly descending. Hardback 2011 - Paperback 2012 - this is either #9 or #11 in the series (depending on whether or not you include threads & themes) The writer is Irish by birth, but found fame elsewhere, before being imported back to the UK.
Palantir Posted November 6, 2012 Posted November 6, 2012 I haven't got a clue about the title but, Wow, that is one very evocative opening.
Andy78 Posted November 6, 2012 Posted November 6, 2012 (edited) I'm sure it's John Connolly's The Burning Soul - but I thought it was the tenth book in the series. Edited November 6, 2012 by andy021278
Xtro Posted November 6, 2012 Posted November 6, 2012 Ninth if you discount Reflecting Eye (Novella in Nocturne anthology) - and if you discount Bad Men and Book of Lost Things Picked it up for the criminally small price of three books for £5.00 - Cover price £6.99 - the other two were also 2012 issue paperbacks as well. No wonder people like Stephen Leather are going on the Self Publishing/eBook publishing route in regard to royalties, etc. All yours, Andy!
Andy78 Posted November 8, 2012 Posted November 8, 2012 I don't think I've done this one yet: "Thirty years ago, Marseilles lay burning in the sun, one day. A blazing sun upon a fierce August day was no greater rarity in southern France then, than at any other time, before or since."
Andy78 Posted November 9, 2012 Posted November 9, 2012 okies clue time. The book was first published as a near weekly serial from December 1855 to June 1857 The book was published in that obscure and not very often used language of English
Red_A Posted November 9, 2012 Posted November 9, 2012 My first thoughts were C James but he assures me that he was not around then. My second is Little Dorrit by Charles Dickens.
Andy78 Posted November 10, 2012 Posted November 10, 2012 I don't think C James is quite that old You are correct with Little Dorrit
Red_A Posted November 10, 2012 Posted November 10, 2012 And now 'This requires some little reflection; Perhaps on the whole it might bring me luck, And there seems but one objection, Which is, if you'll let me speak so bold,
Andy78 Posted November 10, 2012 Posted November 10, 2012 I know this one, but I'll let someone have a go first
Xtro Posted November 11, 2012 Posted November 11, 2012 Ah, the Land of Make-Believe! "Her Aunt, who, from her Earliest Youth, Had kept a Strict Regard for Truth, Attempted to Believe Matilda: The effort very nearly killed her," "That's Belloc's, sir." "No it isn't, sergeant, it's poetry. And I'll thank you to keep your opinions to yourself." (The Chelsea Murders by Lionel Davidson) It's got nothing to do with the quote above, just something which came to mind when I read it. Yes, I know. Back in the corner again....
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