Re: The North – the new book thread : Fri Sep 13, 2013 8:28 am  

I've renamed this to make it the new book thread – so carry on, including, of course, Euclid's original query.

Re: The North – the new book thread : Fri Sep 13, 2013 12:38 pm  

Thank you

Re: The North – the new book thread : Fri Sep 13, 2013 12:51 pm  

In terms of books, Nadine Dorries has signed a six-figure book deal. Well, her novels will apparently be based on her childhood in Liverpool. There: how's that for a connection to both books and the north?

In terms of books, Nadine Dorries has signed a six-figure book deal. Well, her novels will apparently be based on her childhood in Liverpool. There: how's that for a connection to both books and the north?

Re: The North – the new book thread : Fri Sep 13, 2013 3:38 pm  

I do like Casual Vacancy by JK Rowling

Re: The North – the new book thread : Fri Sep 13, 2013 3:59 pm  

Mintball wrote: In terms of books, Nadine Dorries has signed a six-figure book deal. Well, her novels will apparently be based on her childhood in Liverpool. There: how's that for a connection to both books and the north? Oooh, I'll be first in the queue for that then. Not.

Mintball wrote: In terms of books, Nadine Dorries has signed a six-figure book deal. Well, her novels will apparently be based on her childhood in Liverpool. There: how's that for a connection to both books and the north? Oooh, I'll be first in the queue for that then. Not.

Re: The North – the new book thread : Fri Sep 13, 2013 4:01 pm  

OK I'll throw a question open, I'll be spending a week in Robin Hoods Bay very soon and in the course of looking for things to do the Dracula connection with Whitby comes up time and time again.

Now I have the original Bram Stoker version of Dracula on the eReader thingy and have started it several times but the first few chapters are set in Transylvania and I've never got as far as Whitby, does the town feature much in the book or is it all wishful thinking from the Tourist Assc ?

Re: The North – the new book thread : Fri Sep 13, 2013 4:22 pm  

JerryChicken wrote:

... does the town feature much in the book or is it all wishful thinking from the Tourist Assc ?

No not really.
But it might add to your own imagination when reading it.

I deliberately read Greene's Our man in Havana and Hemingway's The old man and the sea whilst in Havana, Greene's Brighton Rock in Brighton and Shute's On the Beach in Melbourne.
It did actually add to the imagination when reading the books ... even if erroneously.

Re: The North – the new book thread : Fri Sep 13, 2013 5:06 pm  

El Barbudo wrote:

No not really.
But it might add to your own imagination when reading it.

I deliberately read Greene's Our man in Havana and Hemingway's The old man and the sea whilst in Havana, Greene's Brighton Rock in Brighton and Shute's On the Beach in Melbourne.
It did actually add to the imagination when reading the books ... even if erroneously.

I've almost finished Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz Zafón, just four years after buying it and it does something similar for Barcelona albeit most of the Barcelona in the book probably doesn't exist now, have another one of his waiting in the wings but I haven't been reading much recently - too busy on other little projects

Re: The North – the new book thread : Fri Sep 13, 2013 8:06 pm  

It's been a long time since I've read it, but isn't the sum of Whitby's link it being the place where Dracula docks?

Re: The North – the new book thread : Fri Sep 13, 2013 10:04 pm  

carl_spackler wrote:

It's been a long time since I've read it, but isn't the sum of Whitby's link it being the place where Dracula docks?

Yep, the ship sailed into Whitby at the height of a storm, crashes into the dock and there is a rumour of a large black dog leaping ashore, other than this the only person on board is the ships captain who is dead, with a ship full of soil and mould from Transylvania.

Thats the extent of my knowledge although I have to say the film adaptation which starred Keanu Reeves and Gary Oldman sticks pretty close to the first part of the book that i have read - will have to do some revision before my trip, could save a few bob on a tour