Ebooks I have read - Snuff

Snuff by Terry Pratchett

My rating: 4 of 5 stars


OK, I think Terry Pratchett is the UK's funniest writer and the best purveyor of comic fantasy ever.

His last few books have been a step down from his best (though he is never less than perfectly readable), but SNUFF takes him back into the world of Sam Vimes, head of the Ankh-Morpork Watch and this has brought the best out of him again.

Yes, the plot is slight, but then plots aren't what Terry Pratchett is about. The cast of characters are endearing, the dialogue is witty, the descriptions are hilarious and there is plenty of action. His view of the countryside is touchingly old-fashioned, but then this is the Discworld.

It's easy to rattle through this book, but it's also worth taking the time to savour the word play and it is a book that will no doubt be revisited.



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Ebooks I have read - Milking The Rhino

Milking the Rhino: Dangerously Funny Lists by Chris Rush


My rating: 1 of 5 stars



Lists can be funny, I'm sure of it, but this book doesn't prove it.

There aren't any laughs in it and it's main benefit is that it's mercifully short.





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The Sci Fi Freak's Guide To The Televisual Galaxy is updated!

THE SCI FI FREAK'S GUIDE TO THE TELEVISUAL GALAXY has been updated to its second edition for the kindle and in print.

It's been just about a year since the first version appeared on the scene and since that point I've been working on the new edition.

In the print version that means more than 80 more pages of new stuff.

The kindle version update has been even more radical with the inclusion of an active table of contents and active links through the text. This was a major reformatting task that nearly sent me insane on far more than one occasion, but now that it's done it should be easier for next year's iteration.

New entries include:

Alice
Bedlam
Camelot
The Deep
The Event
Firestarter Rekindled
First Men In The Moon
Game Of Thrones
The Golden Years
Haven
The Invaders (1995)
Invasion: Earth
Jake 2.0
The Knights Of God
No Ordinary Family
Outcasts
Pathfinders in space
Pathfinders to Mars
Pathfinders to Venus
Special Unit 2
The Uninvited
Walking Dead
Whistle and I’ll Come To You (1968)
Whistle and I'll Come To You (2010)
Wild Palms
New seasons have been added to:

Being Erica
Being Human
Caprica
Chuck
Fringe
Ghost Whisperer
Medium
Misfits
Primeval
Sanctuary
Sarah Jane Adventures
Stargate Universe
True Blood
V 2009
The Vampire Diaries
Warehouse 13

and the following entries have been expanded and enhanced:

A For Andromeda 1961
Alien Nation
Come Back Mrs Noah
Farscape
Life On Mars USA
Moonbase 3
Mutant X
Painkiller Jane
Quatermass Experiment 1953
Quatermass 2
Quatermass And The Pit
Saving Grace
V 1983
V The Final Battle
Witchblade

I'm very pleased with the result, but the printed copy is getting close to Lulu's size limits and I might have to look at font sizes and things for next year.

Anyway to get it on the kindle click the links

Amazon (UK)
Amazon (US)
Lulu.com (printed)

Five Star Review For To Infinity (And Maybe that's far enough)

Recently relaunched with a table of contents and (hopefully) the last few typos killed off TO INFINITY (and maybe that's far enough) received a new review yesterday and it's a nice five star one as well.


Really enjoyable read, 6 Oct 2011

I enjoyed this - a lot! It's one of those stories that begs to be read in a sitting once you've been sucked in, and it's an antidote to many of those po-faced sci-fi books.
Our hero, Kaymer Haynes, is suitably disreputable, and established as a Man To Be Reckoned With during the first few pages as he escapes an inescapable prison.
A story that romps along, good characters and plenty of humour make for a really good read. I shall read more by Darren Humphries.

Another five star review

I noticed a new five star review on Amazon.co.uk today.

Headed "A Very Enjoyable Read" it said

"Well, it started well, if a bit over the top, but settled down into a cracking good read. I found it funny and unpredictable, right to the very end. Well worth a read, and I will look for more from this writer, thats for sure."

This is the kind of comment that has made me think that it was worthwhile putting my books onto the kindle in the first place.

Man From U.N.D.E.A.D. now available in print

After all the formatting and checking and cover artwork and everything else, the printed versions of The Man From U.N.D.E.A.D. - The Curious Case of the Kidnapped Chemist is now available in printed form.

The hardbacked version is available exclusively from lulu.com whilst the paperback version can either be bought from either lulu.com or from Amazon.com.

Now I'm On Kindlegraph

There's this site called Kindlegraph.com where readers of books (no, you don't need to read e-books or own a kindle, though those are the obvious targets for this) can send a request for a dedication from the author of a book. This is sent to them as a pdf including the cover of the book in question and whatever dedication that the author has seen fit to make.

At the request of a reader, I've added myself to this, though I have no expectations of anyone else wanting it.

It's just another example of the possibilities of e-books and e-readers.