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John Connolly
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I'm not sure that, when I was an unpublished writer, I ever really wanted to be given the opportunity to pick the brains of published writers. First of all, I didn't know many published writers. There was the poet Brendan Kennelly, who taught me in Trinity College and came from my mother's village, but it never struck me to ask him anything about publishing, and I was long gone from university...
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The Book of Lost Things
— published 2006 — 44 editions |
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Every Dead Thing (Charlie Parker, #1)
— published 1999 — 40 editions |
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The Gates (Samuel Johnson, #1)
— published 2009 — 29 editions |
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The Killing Kind (Charlie Parker, #3)
— published 2001 — 27 editions |
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Dark Hollow (Charlie Parker, #2)
— published 2000 — 28 editions |
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The Unquiet (Charlie Parker, #6)
— published 2007 — 35 editions |
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The Black Angel (Charlie Parker, #5)
— published 2005 — 27 editions |
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The White Road (Charlie Parker, #4)
— published 2002 — 21 editions |
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The Lovers (Charlie Parker, #8)
— published 2009 — 30 editions |
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The Reapers (Charlie Parker, #7)
— published 2008 — 23 editions |
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| Sorry, I'm a sucker for books on TV and movies. This one is really for the Anglophiles among you as it's largely a history of sport on British TV, but for those of us who remember Dickie Davies, Colemanballs, and the spectacular destruction of Frank...more | |
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John Connolly
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Dublin launch of BOOKS TO DIE FOR
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September 06, 2012 06:30PM
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“For in every adult there dwells the child that was, and in every child there lies the adult that will be.”
― John Connolly, The Book of Lost Things
― John Connolly, The Book of Lost Things
“I think the act of reading imbues the reader with a sensitivity toward the outside world that people who don't read can sometimes lack. I know it seems like a contradiction in terms; after all reading is such a solitary, internalizing act that it appears to represent a disengagement from day-to-day life. But reading, and particularly the reading of fiction, encourages us to view the world in new and challenging ways...It allows us to inhabit the consciousness of another which is a precursor to empathy, and empathy is, for me, one of the marks of a decent human being.”
― John Connolly, The Book of Lost Things
― John Connolly, The Book of Lost Things
“Being scared isn't the problem. It's not running away that's the hard part.”
― John Connolly, Nocturnes
― John Connolly, Nocturnes
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Hi John thanks for accepting me as a friend, big fan of Charlie Parker, love the supernatural elements to the stories. Very edgy.
Hello! For those that don't know..Mr. Connolly will be stopping by the YA Book Club for a Q&A. Be sure to stop by in May when we read The Book of Lost Things!http://www.goodreads.com/group/show/3...
And your Charlie Parker series, along with Boris Akunin's Erast Fandorin series, rekindled my interest in the mystery genre. Thank you!