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Post by che2000 on Jun 17, 2009 13:23:22 GMT
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Post by Craig Herbertson on Jun 17, 2009 15:39:19 GMT
I'm grateful for that shameless plug. A quite brilliant story with little smatterings of Jack Vane. Love it to bits and am now an official fan
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Post by che2000 on Jun 17, 2009 15:48:15 GMT
Blush!
Glad you liked it. Yep, there are echoes of JV in the story and he is one of my major inspirations as a writer, but I would never, ever dare to compare myself to him (it would be like a sparrow trying to compare itself to an eagle)
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Post by Craig Herbertson on Jun 17, 2009 20:16:32 GMT
Love Vance. Got into him quite late. I think his scope and attention to detail are just astounding. Anyway, I'll compare you to him if it make it easier.
I normally struggle to read anything off a screen but I was with you all the way, unusual for me. The prose was really good, flowing, interesting, colourful. I'd like to see a longer work.
On an aside are you based in Ireland?
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Post by che2000 on Jun 17, 2009 22:12:00 GMT
Yep, I'm as Irish as they come.
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Post by David Kartos on Jun 18, 2009 11:04:30 GMT
Quit a shameless person, aren't you  |
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Post by che2000 on Jun 18, 2009 14:59:34 GMT
Sometimes. Although never on the beach, where my natural modesty comes to the fore (that and the fact that the world does not need to see another middle aged man in swimming trunks).
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Post by Craig Herbertson on Jun 18, 2009 16:13:37 GMT
That's the great thing about writing.One can quickly ditch the fat balding middle age man and reinvent yourself as the dashing anti hero
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Post by che2000 on Jun 18, 2009 17:55:51 GMT
I have to confess that I'm way past balding these days and seriously into bald (mind you, I did start losin' me hair when I was 18 so I've been bald as an egg for years). The spreading waistline is a constant worry, though. I'm of the opinion that all food gets tastier and all beer tastes sweeter once you hit 40.
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Post by Craig Herbertson on Jun 18, 2009 18:04:09 GMT
When I found that none of my trousers even remotely fitted I decide that was it. For three weeks now I have been cycling and dieting. The result a slightly less fat balding old bastard. Ah well...
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Post by David Kartos on Jun 18, 2009 22:50:23 GMT
Ah, am just 19 and am rather lacking in the hair department . Not quite the monk just yet , though . And at least youre not an old guy in a speedo |
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Post by carolinec on Jun 19, 2009 8:37:43 GMT
This thread has gone off at a rather amusing tangent! ;D
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Post by David Kartos on Jun 19, 2009 8:57:12 GMT
Don't you pick on us, or I'll take my hat off |
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Post by che2000 on Jun 19, 2009 13:46:51 GMT
Of course, the ironic thing is that I called this thread 'a shameless plug' whereas it appears that we are all rather proud of our balding pates (I know I am, I looked terrible with hair - like a wire-wool terrier) and none of us would ever resort to hair plugs!
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Post by David Kartos on Jun 19, 2009 20:19:46 GMT
I would . Though I am NOT bald , mind you Besides, I hav so much hair elsewhere , that the low level of it on my head produces a dreadfull imbalance . |
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