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| Name: | Adam West |
| Joined: | 2 years ago |
| Country: | United Kingdom |
| Hometown: | Sheffield |
| Life Story: | Writing on Shortbread. My best writing on here is probably The Journey. Pigeon Coit is a close second. Afraid to Speak is worth a try if you like weird crime/supernatural combo's. Mary Rankin and the Great Inundation and Josiah Blacknell and the Blockade Runners are well researched. Mr. Zimmerman Flies to Buenos Aires (Economy Class) is frankly, off the wall, or 'trippy' if you prefer - Hey Dog bitter-sweet. Of the eight stories I rescued from my last full-length manuscript and adapted for Shortbread which include Donstown Pt 1 and 2, Hintleman's Unorthodox Bi-Lateral Sclerosis (I love crazy story titles)...and all the Victor stories, I like Victor and the Door-to Door Pedlars best, with Victor's Friend Joe Carter coming next best. For a short sci-fi read, my competition entries Love on an Alphane Moon and Do Eros Sevens Dream of Jupiter and Mars are worth a look, especially if you like PK Dick tribute acts. Both the contemporary, Everything Happens for a Reason, and the Greek tragedy, Some Velvet Morning are a little risque. Walking Not Swimming, is, one SBS member suggested, Mark Twain-esque (a lovely compliment thank you). On Runswick Bay Beach is an Orwellian-like essay. Halfway House is a true story whereas The Tuppenny Rush is a conversation based upon real events. Dormant is not Dead, ‘Cause I Just Looked Inside My Head and No Haze in Death are, surprise surprise, self-indulgent pieces. X is for Xenotropic is a lengthy saga spanning many centuries with a deft nod to Kurt Vonnegut - and is, what I describe as, a ’literary’ equivalent of Russian Dolls: a story within a story within a story. Out of Time is a Great War poem of sorts. Daisy Chains and Black Dahlias, and the George P Pelecanos inspired They Find Me Down By The River graphic crime noir. In contrast, Cheryl Cole versus Katy Perry and The Honeymooners are quite frivolous. Fat Tuesday won a little comp on here and gave someone a headache, too! Reading on Shortbread. I prioritise reading stories by writers who read and comment on other stories, followed by those who read but don't comment and lastly, if I'm feeling charitable, :-) I read stories by writers who neither comment nor read on Shortbread. PS - I don't use the ratings slider bars - preferring to comment/critique member's writing. |
| Personal Website: | none |
| Favourite Authors: | Phillip K Dick, Ken Kesey, Alan Warner, Laurie Lee, George P Pelecanos, Walter Mosley, Marc Behm, Stuart Maconie, Robert Goddard, Michael Connelly, George Orwell, Kurt Vonnegut, Adam Roberts, Margaret Atwood, Kazuo Ishiguro, Cormac Macarthy, Haruki Marukami, Steig Larsson, Irvine Welsh... |
| Favourite Stories: | The Man in the High Castle, Ubik, Time out of Joint, Flow my Tears the Policeman Said, The Simulacra, The Penultimate Truth, A Scanner Darkly, Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep - all of PKD's work, Rebecca, Jane Eyre, Sometimes a Great Notion, Sailor Song, Last Go Round, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, Afraid to Death, Eye of the Beholder, all of Michael Connelly's writing including City of Bones, Lost Light, The Concrete Blonde. To Kill a Mocking Bird, everything George P Pelecanos has written including Shame The Devil, Nick Stefanos Trilogy (GP Pelecanos) Slaughterhouse 5, Galapagos, Cat's Cradle, Sirens of Titan, Catcher in the Rye, The Face, Dean Koontz (Odd Thomas series). The Man Who Walks, Morvern Callar, These Demented Lands, These Worms Can Carry Me To Heaven, The Sopranos, The Deadman's Pedal, The Godfather, 1984, Animal Farm, Homage to Catalonia, Down and out in Paris and London, The Road to Wigan Pier, Yellow Blue Tibia, Land of the Headless, Salt, The Blind Assassin, The Handmaid's Tale, Oryx and Crake, Cat's Eye, Atonement, The Road, The Day of the Locust, Never Let Me Go, When We Were Orphans, The Remains of the Day, The Unbearable Lightness of Being, Cider With Roadies, Pies and Prejudice, Norwegian Wood, The Millenium trilogy, Three Seconds, The Shadow of the Wind, Winter in Madrid, The Incredible Journey, Catch 22, Fahrenheit 451, Trainspotting, No Country For Old Men, Lord of the Flies, The One Hundred Year Old Man Who Climbed Out of The Window And Disappeared, Let The Right One In, The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time... |
| Interesting: | Adam's sign is Pisces. Adam has read 134 stories in the last 2 months, listened to 0 and was last seen online Yesterday. Adam has contributed 43 stories to Shortbread. |