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Nick East (Indie writer)

NickEast@ramblingreaders.org

Joined 1 year, 9 months ago

Aspiring fantasy author and geek working on a series under the subtitle "Nothing is Everything". That's the only interesting thing I can think of, but there is always the seldom used option of asking :)

Mastodon: geekdom.social/@NickEast Read my story at: reamstories.com/huom The Last Philosopher is a satirical high-fantasy story with heavy-handed attempts at humour. It revolves around the world of Huom and some of its quirkier inhabitants. It’s the first book under the subtitle, Nothing is Everything. It's been called imaginative, funny, and unique. People have even gone so far as to compare it to Douglas Adams and Terry Pratchett. My response to that comparison, is to go hide under the covers for a week with embarrassment.

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Nick East (Indie writer)'s books

Currently Reading

Keith Waterhouse: Billy Liar (1962) 4 stars

I've always claimed you shouldn't let a little thing like the truth ruin a good story.

No rating

This book tells you why you should, unless you want to end up like Billy Liar. Then again fictional liars are always entertaining, and so is this one. So, the lesson I guess is don't lie in real life, but it takes an excellent liar to make good fiction.

Tom Hodgkinson: How to be free (2006, Hamish Hamilton, Hamish Hamilton UK) 3 stars

Drawing on anarchist writing and individualist philosophy, Tom Hodgkinson looks at definitions of freedom in …

Not great

3 stars

I wish this book only made a lot of good points, but it also makes a lot of bad points. However the so called advice, like any self-help book, is mostly useless. Something anyone with some sense can figure out for themselves. A more apt title could have been "Why should you be free?" But even then it doesn't clearly make the argument for why... 3/5 stars.

Tom Hodgkinson: How to be free (2006, Hamish Hamilton, Hamish Hamilton UK) 3 stars

Drawing on anarchist writing and individualist philosophy, Tom Hodgkinson looks at definitions of freedom in …

I wish this book would only makes a lot of good points like, but it also makes a lot of bad points. However the so called advice, like any self-help book, is mostly useless. Something anyone with some sense can figure out for themselves. A more apt title could have been "Why should you be free?" But even then it doesn't clearly make the argument for why... 3/5 stars

Jerome Klapka Jerome: Three Men on the Bummel (Hardcover, 2006, 1st World Library) 4 stars

A while ago I found the frist of this duology in a local thrift store and liked it, so when I found the second in the same store I grabbed it before anyone else could get their grubby hands on it ;P It makes me feel all warm and fuzzy inside that over a century ago Jerome K. Jerome hated going places and doing things enough to satirize in not one but two books!