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Post by claire on Jul 10, 2006 19:36:15 GMT
The job didn't interest me at all, not my knd of thing. The weird clothes she had to wear. Then she'd e-mail Aidan to tell him what she was wearing, and ringing his voice mail. Then it dawns on her that he is dead and not coming back
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Post by claire on Jul 10, 2006 19:38:06 GMT
ok what happened here??? this ^^^ response is the only one I can see
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Post by Oonagh on Jul 10, 2006 19:39:11 GMT
That was very sad alright it was just her way probably to talk to him. 20 euro though is a rip off for a book! i agree with you Claire.
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Post by Oonagh on Jul 10, 2006 19:39:38 GMT
yeah thats all i can see as well i thought it was my computer!
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Post by Shirley on Jul 10, 2006 19:39:45 GMT
The book did get me thinking though about how far people are probably prepared to go to make some sort of connection with a person they've lost. You could totally see why Anna was so sucked in by the idea of getting an appointment with Neris!
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Post by Shirley on Jul 10, 2006 19:40:02 GMT
Me too girls!
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Post by Oonagh on Jul 10, 2006 19:41:01 GMT
It got my mind thinking about it too Shirley!
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Post by claire on Jul 10, 2006 19:41:12 GMT
I think we must have delated things here, I can't find it anywhere!
Yes Shirley, and this Neris was nothing in the end
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Post by Oonagh on Jul 10, 2006 19:44:04 GMT
Neris was a load of rubbish after! Thats a pity we lost the other page with all what we though. ah well it happens!
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Post by claire on Jul 10, 2006 19:44:17 GMT
we've had 70 views and 7 replies. My posts number is still goin up. I think someone ha wiped the thread on us
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Post by Shirley on Jul 10, 2006 19:44:38 GMT
I love your avatar Claire!
I loved the whole idea of the "feathery strokers". Anna was so worried that Jacqui would consider Aidan to be a feathery stroker when she first met him, and was so relieved when she didn't!
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Post by Oonagh on Jul 10, 2006 19:45:22 GMT
who could though Claire???
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Post by claire on Jul 10, 2006 19:45:44 GMT
The idea of the feathery strokers, where does she get it from.
i got the cat from the site that charlie posted with the names, check out the fun stuff
it's not very clear but it says...oh you so funny
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Post by Oonagh on Jul 10, 2006 19:46:18 GMT
It was great to see her friends opinion mattered so much to her!
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Post by Shirley on Jul 10, 2006 19:46:26 GMT
That's really weird about the page deletion. Could we even do that if we wanted to? Didn't think we'd have rights to do it! We're just going to have to write loads more now to make up for it! :-)
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Post by Shirley on Jul 10, 2006 19:47:48 GMT
The idea of the feathery strokers, where does she get it from. That's the fab thing about her though, isn't it - nobody else would be able to come up with that stuff! Even if the sum of the parts isn't enough for a reader, the little things always make up for it! |
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Post by claire on Jul 10, 2006 19:48:25 GMT
So do you want to start again??
i can't remember what I said. I've never delated a whole page before, just a single post
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Post by Shirley on Jul 10, 2006 19:52:29 GMT
Sure not to worry about what we've lost - we can just talk about new things.
What did you think of Anna's pitch about creating loads of hype over the new product? Do you think it would have worked in the "real world"? Have to say, I thought it was a good idea. Hype seems to be everything when it comes to marketing anything in this world!
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Post by Oonagh on Jul 10, 2006 19:53:28 GMT
Right my opinion again! I enjoyed it not as much as some of her others. I could nt believe Aidan was dead thought he left her her something. i loved Mammy walsh and i Hated helen little stories. I sKipped them most of the time. I really enjoyed them playing scrabble though that brill and how Mammy walsh found out! I hated that i spent 20 euro on it thought it was too much money to spent on a book that had spelling errors in it! Ok girls between the 3 of us here we spent 60 euro on it!20 euro on a big book and i am not mean with money at all but it drives me mad how publishers get away with that! in my opinion its just not on!
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Post by Shirley on Jul 10, 2006 19:54:31 GMT
Just looking at the prologue here - what did you guys think of it? It really makes total and utter sense when you read it back after you've read the book. I wonder if many readers tried to analyse it from the word go in order to work out what the book was about? I think someone on this forum said they guessed what was going to happen from the prologue!
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Post by claire on Jul 10, 2006 19:54:49 GMT
yes some of the things I would say would work. Not so long ago here, red gnomes were popping up all over the place. They were even on the internet for sale. it was all to do with a new tele comm thing
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Post by Oonagh on Jul 10, 2006 19:55:32 GMT
It was a good concept on selling the product! I would not be bothered though if that idea came to life. im not really in to creams and stuff like that too much!
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Post by Shirley on Jul 10, 2006 19:56:34 GMT
Right my opinion again! I enjoyed it not as much as some of her others. I could nt believe Aidan was dead thought he left her her something. i loved Mammy walsh and i Hated helen little stories. I sKipped them most of the time. I really enjoyed them playing scrabble though that brill and how Mammy walsh found out! I hated that i spent 20 euro on it thought it was too much money to spent on a book that had spelling errors in it! Ok girls between the 3 of us here we spent 60 euro on it!20 euro on a big book and i am not mean with money at all but it drives me mad how publishers get away with that! in my opinion its just not on! Yeah, it really is crazy money to pay for a book. I wouldn't pay that much for anyone but Marian. I was so glad that Poolbeg sent me a new book when the copy I bought was missing a section! |
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Post by claire on Jul 10, 2006 19:57:11 GMT
From the prolouge, I found it confusing. It made more sense to me after I read the book. But I think also because of it I thought Aidan had left her for someone else and thayt is whay it was such a shock when I realised he was dead
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Post by Oonagh on Jul 10, 2006 19:58:41 GMT
Did ye guess what was going to happen?? I didnt at all! I would never have guessed he was dead. It did come in to my head but i was like now surely they would have mention if he was dead
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Post by claire on Jul 10, 2006 19:58:51 GMT
I didn't as much as yous did, I got mine from bol.com and with postage i think it cost 15 euro. But it is a hard back and they always cost more
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Post by claire on Jul 10, 2006 20:00:24 GMT
Did ye guess what was going to happen?? I didnt at all! I would never have guessed he was dead. It did come in to my head but i was like now surely they would have mention if he was dead i did but can't remember when excatly. I tink it was round the time that she went back to the flat for the first time and something happened and i thought 'oh God he is dead!' |
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Post by Shirley on Jul 10, 2006 20:01:11 GMT
I can't remember at what point it hit me about Aidan being dead Oons - I copped it before we were told, but I don't remember exactly when. I was sad when I realised.
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Post by Oonagh on Jul 10, 2006 20:01:56 GMT
I did enjoy reading the book but i have to admit it was crazy money to spent on it! Ok Marian is a brill writer and shirley poolbeg would want to make sure they gave u a proper book after u spent so much money on it!
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Post by Shirley on Jul 10, 2006 20:02:41 GMT
LOL Claire, our posts are similar!
Just reading back your posts there. The descriptions of Anna's clothes in her emails to Aidan actually annoyed me, for some reason - it was just too much detail and you had to visualise each and every outfit!
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