This review of Dead I Well May Be on Amazon.com caught my eye:Mesmerizing enough to calm the Block , October 25, 2008
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G. Love (Bridgeport, CT USA) - See all my reviews I read this book in a mater of hours because I couldn't put it down. Then I read it out loud to a group of older boys incarcerated in Juvenile Detention. This excellent crime thriller kept all of the young men intrigued and well-behaved for days at a time as I parceled the book out little by little. They begged for more when the book was over and I ended up buying copies of each book in the series for their library. This book and the others in the series are extremely well written and instantly captivating. While the subject matter may be above the average high school student, Adrian McKinty's books will captivate even the most reluctant readers!
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G. Love (Bridgeport, CT USA) - See all my reviews I read this book in a mater of hours because I couldn't put it down. Then I read it out loud to a group of older boys incarcerated in Juvenile Detention. This excellent crime thriller kept all of the young men intrigued and well-behaved for days at a time as I parceled the book out little by little. They begged for more when the book was over and I ended up buying copies of each book in the series for their library. This book and the others in the series are extremely well written and instantly captivating. While the subject matter may be above the average high school student, Adrian McKinty's books will captivate even the most reluctant readers!
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Thanks for the review Mr. Love, and I'm a little curious if you read or skipped the long section explaining in detail how to escape from prison.
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Oh and come on Scribner bring DIWMB back into print! Why make people get it used or as a UK import? Don't you care about the future of America?
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Bono & Maureen Dowd on the one newspaper. Hide the Jamesons
oops commented on the wrong story. I should stay clear myself.
I resent the implication sir! And from what I hear Ben Brantley can knock 'em back, especially after witnessing Katie Holmes in an Arthur Miller play.
Oh, Katie, one day we'll save you from that underground bunker in Telluride. Me and Xenu.
Been meaning to ask this for a while now, Adrian: have all your books been released in hardcover? The bibliophile in me needs to know.
Mike
Indeed they have but only in the USA and Russia. Weird huh? Everywhere else pbk originals, but if that format is good enough for Philip K Dick and Jim Thompson then by god its good enough for me.
No, I did not skip ANYTHING and the boys loved it!
This is why I asked if I could quote you in my book. I wrote an entire chapter yesterday about reading your book to the kids in the Juvenile Detention Center over two weekends and how much they loved it and then how it got them into reading for themselves. I didn't hear back from you so I wrote it without the quotes I hoped to use. I would LOVE for you to read the chapter. Now that I have seen that you have given your permission I will go back and insert what I want to use. I owe you and Michael Forsythe a lot!
Thanks brother,
Greg
I just posted a comment on another blog that asked for readers’ best sports memories. The word verification was the highly appropriate elation.
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"Because Murder Is More Fun Away From Home"
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Greg
Thats good to know. I actually was told by my publisher a few years that DIWMB had been banned by the California Penal System because of the whole escape thing.
But yeah feel free to quote.
Cheers mate
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Peter
You post on other blogs?
For shame.
And I'll bet you Yankee bash with abandon.
I resent the implication, sir. I have spoken civilly with two Yankee fans in the past two days, including one not twenty minutes ago.
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Detectives Beyond Borders
"Because Murder Is More Fun Away From Home"
http://detectivesbeyondborders.blogspot.com/
The title of this post positively begs a variety of wiseass comments,but for once I will be tactful enough not to make them.
Anything you and arawnlove are doing to give hope to incarcerated youth in California is pretty easily more than anyone else is doing at the current moment, so I hope that some of them are looking at the prospect of escape in a more shall we say 'metaphoric sense', thanks to you.
I agree that Scribner or someone should keep the whole Michael Forsythe in print at the same time so that people can read the whole story in some kind of sequence. Good luck with that.
Can you put some mention of the title and/or even a picture of The Bloomsday Dead in your link to Spread the Word? The easier you make it for people to figure out what they're getting into, the better. Though your readers are an unusually astute bunch, you should never overestimate people's ability to figure out the obvious.
Seanag
I've emailed over there but not much is happening at the moment. Serpents Tail just sent me the new UK trilogy covers and they're all the same pattern and really nice. Simon and Schuster have never thought about doing that. Strange.
I'll see if I can get a pic up on the thingy, another good idea.
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Yeah,I also had the instinct to make a joke,but reading the entire post I thought better of it.
It's a very nice story.You should be proud.
But why,immediately after Seanag'suggestion,my v-word is (I kid you not)
pitypic?
Someone's having fun with us.
Ciao,
Marco
My current v-word ,recediam,invites to take a step back,while on another blog I just had to type comic.
I'm really beginning to think I'm part of a simulation now...
Peter
Well I dont want to jinx you but I think the Phillies are in like Flynn.
marco
have you noticed that the semi sentient v words began as soon as I posted that thing about Nick Bostrom?
Phil
The daily kos diarist Sad Pony Guerilla Girl has a great take on the Bono story
here
To summarize: Bono has never paid taxes in his life, he's a billionaire plutocrat, he half owns Fortune Magazine a better forum for his ideas, he gives nothing to charity, while at the same preaching trite sanctimony and total bullshit. But she says it better.
Adrian,
I just read your book and wondered why the name of someone who writes it is not a household name in crime fiction circles. I decided that the book is too intelligent (which is not intended as an insult).
But obviously it's more complicate than that. Again, I don't intend to insult the incarcerated boys, but I thought a certain level of that kind of knowledge, that is usually acquired by education and might yet not be bestowed on every boy, should be helpful to enjoy the tons of allutions in the book.
Thank you Krimileser, you are too kind.
I think part of why it hit home for the kids maybe was because I was living a little of that life when I was in Harlem. I arrived there in 1993 in the midst of a terrible epidemic of crack murders. In the period 1992 - 1994 4000 (mostly young black) males were murdered in NYC in Harlem, Bed Sty, the South Bronx...Thats more people than were killed on Sept 11.
For me living in Harlem and being an illegal meant that I was on the other side of the law and this lasted until I got married and became legit.
As for the prose, I dont know, it was the only way I knew how to approach this story, ie to make it as impressionistic and thus realistic as possible.
I had one reviewer complain that there were no "burning ghats" on the Hudson. Did he seriously think that I thought there were?
Anyway thanks for the comments
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Recidiam is Latin for "we return to prison," isn't it? An apt verificaiton word for this post.
I spent a good chunk of last night trying to figure out how to avoid a World Series celebration tonight. This is not a civilized country like Ireland, you know ...
... which is why I can't figure out why a sanctimonious public-relations like bullshitter like Bono fled. It's no surprise that he was mentioned for the Nobel Peace Prize last year. Near as I can tell, the eventual winner got his prize for public relations, too.
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"Because Murder Is More Fun Away From Home"
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Great story! And it's cool that the reviewer dropped by.
And yeah, those new Serpent's Tail covers are brilliant. Simple but very cool. It's Scribner's loss if you ask me (though you didn't).
gb
In the period 1992 - 1994 4000 (mostly young black) males were murdered in NYC in Harlem, Bed Sty, the South Bronx...Thats more people than were killed on Sept 11
That's a staggering number.
It's more than the total number of murders in Italy in the last 4-5 years.
For me living in Harlem and being an illegal meant that I was on the other side of the law
For how long have you been an illegal immigrant?
Ciao,
Marco
Peter
I'm rooting for the Phils. Its about time the NL took it.
Yeah U2 collectively have made around 2 or 3 billion Euros but not a paid a single penny in income or corporation tax to Ireland, which is just amazing really. If Bono wanted to he could vaccinate every child in say Lesotho and still be super rich, but he chooses not to. Interesting.
Marco
Yeah the murder rate in NYC 1992 - 1995 was a scandal. Outrageous actually. You know I grew up in Northern Ireland in the 1970's but never saw a shooting or a body. I was in Harlem two days when a woman was murdered outside our building. Of course because it was black people being killed it didnt make the front of the newspapers.
Rudy Giuliani in many ways is a despicable person, but at least he recognised the problem and stopped the genocide.
I was, er, of quetionable immigration status 1993 - 1996, but then I exited and re-entered on a marriage visa and got a job at Columbia U.
Ger
Yeah I love what they're doing over there at ST. They put many major presses to shame.
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