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PTerry - Tge Shepherds Crown released last night.
The Girl in the Spiders Web released today also - Lisbeth Salander 4. Lagerkrantz was commissioned to write and it's getting rave reviews as a very good Steig.
Water stones will be happy chaps!
And of course not to mention my owned biased obsession with Jodi
The Girl in the Spiders Web released today also - Lisbeth Salander 4. Lagerkrantz was commissioned to write and it's getting rave reviews as a very good Steig.
Water stones will be happy chaps!
And of course not to mention my owned biased obsession with Jodi
Personally, not that bothered about the latest PTerry - sacrilege, I know, but I'm afraid I think his writing went downhill in the last couple of years. Understandable and very sad, but I almost wish he'd realised it wasn't working and stopped when he was on top of his game.
The Steig rewrite doesn't do much for me either - I thought the first book was excellent but they went downhill, I only finished the third because I knew it was the last.
I know, I'm speaking ill of the dead, but that's what t'Internet's for innit! :-)
The other highly anticipated new release is the latest Lee Child next week. I'm about half way through the ARC, it's OK but I really wish he'd use his undoubted writing skills to write something different - the Reacher books are becoming very formulaic.
The new Jodi Taylor, however... really enjoying it. Stopped reading Lee Child to read this. In fact I keep stopping and putting it down because I don't want it to end!
Thanks again for recommending her books a few months ago!
The Steig rewrite doesn't do much for me either - I thought the first book was excellent but they went downhill, I only finished the third because I knew it was the last.
I know, I'm speaking ill of the dead, but that's what t'Internet's for innit! :-)
The other highly anticipated new release is the latest Lee Child next week. I'm about half way through the ARC, it's OK but I really wish he'd use his undoubted writing skills to write something different - the Reacher books are becoming very formulaic.
The new Jodi Taylor, however... really enjoying it. Stopped reading Lee Child to read this. In fact I keep stopping and putting it down because I don't want it to end!
Thanks again for recommending her books a few months ago!
I didn't know Child had one out also. I didn't realise so many were coming out at once till I read a cpl of stories in The Times & Telegraph that apparently the publishing industry were calling it the biggest week in a decade or something! I didn't even know Lagerkrantz had been commissioned to write the 4th Lizbeth or that there had been raging arguments about it!
DJRC said:
apparently the publishing industry were calling it the biggest week in a decade or something!
Bigger than "Go Set a Watchman" a few weeks ago? Bigger than the seventh and last Harry Potter (2007)? I'd very much doubt if the numbers will match up to that sort of hype, I suspect there's a bit of "dead season" reporting going on there.Morf said:
DJRC said:
apparently the publishing industry were calling it the biggest week in a decade or something!
Bigger than "Go Set a Watchman" a few weeks ago? Bigger than the seventh and last Harry Potter (2007)? I'd very much doubt if the numbers will match up to that sort of hype, I suspect there's a bit of "dead season" reporting going on there.Nobody under the age of 40 has read Mockingbird much less ever heard of Atticus. Salender and the Millenium trilogy kickstarted Scandi-noir in the last decade and PTerry is/was the most famous & prolific author in the country.
So yes. Much bigger.
GSAW did over a million first week US and Canada only (http://www.theguardian.com/books/2015/jul/20/harper-lee-go-set-a-watchman-1-million-copies). Deathly Hallows did 11 million in 24 hours (http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/6912529.stm).
GSAW was the second highest presale at Amazon after DH (http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-33474630)
There aren't any numbers out yet for PTerry or Salamander, but I'd be surprised if either of them matches GSAW, and there's not a cat in hell's chance of them doing anywhere near DH.
Not getting at you at all, but if the article is truly calling this the publishing event of tht decade then the writer has a very short memory!
Eta - salamander initial print run UK is quarter of a million, worldwide is 2.7 million. GSAW was close to 1 million UK, and 2 million US, and that's ignoring the rest of the world!
GSAW was the second highest presale at Amazon after DH (http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-33474630)
There aren't any numbers out yet for PTerry or Salamander, but I'd be surprised if either of them matches GSAW, and there's not a cat in hell's chance of them doing anywhere near DH.
Not getting at you at all, but if the article is truly calling this the publishing event of tht decade then the writer has a very short memory!
Eta - salamander initial print run UK is quarter of a million, worldwide is 2.7 million. GSAW was close to 1 million UK, and 2 million US, and that's ignoring the rest of the world!
Edited by Morf on Saturday 5th September 14:46
ali_kat said:
Any figures yet please Morf?
I’d be interested to see which of you is right (I think it’s you btw
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Spiders web did 200,000 in first week (http://www.ew.com/article/2015/09/09/girl-spiders-web-first-week-sales).I’d be interested to see which of you is right (I think it’s you btw
)The best I can find for Pterry is 52,000 uk in 3 days (http://www.theguardian.com/books/2015/sep/03/terry-pratchetts-final-discworld-novel-no-1-book-charts-shepherds-crown).
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