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Started by Korea, March 10, 2009, 06:24:26 AM

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Duque de Bragança

No idea. I'll take your first-hand knowledge of it as gospel.

mongers

OK this is just insulting, email from Kobo:

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Exciting New Releases we think you'll enjoy:

Turn a Blind Eye

Jeffrey Archer

Turn a Blind Eye is the third instalment in the gripping story of Detective Inspector William Warwick, by the master storyteller and Sunday Times number one bestsellin... read more.


And it's just one, no others.   :mad:
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Agelastus

Quote from: mongers on April 01, 2021, 09:51:30 AM
OK this is just insulting, email from Kobo:

Quote

Exciting New Releases we think you'll enjoy:

Turn a Blind Eye

Jeffrey Archer

Turn a Blind Eye is the third instalment in the gripping story of Detective Inspector William Warwick, by the master storyteller and Sunday Times number one bestsellin... read more.


And it's just one, no others.   :mad:

Has Kobo got you mixed up with my Aunt? :hmm:
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The last of life for which the first was made."

Sheilbh

I feel like "Master storyteller" is a red flag for me - and almost exclusively applied to Jeffrey Archer :lol:
Let's bomb Russia!

Syt

QuoteNewly promoted to Detective Inspector, William Warwick is tasked with a dangerous new line of work, to go undercover and expose crime of another kind: corruption at the heart of the Metropolitan Police Force. Along with detectives Rebecca Pankhurst and Nicky Bailey, his team is focused on following Detective Jerry Summers, a young officer whose lifestyle exceeds his income. But the investigation risks being compromised when Nicky falls for Summers.

Meanwhile, notorious drug baron Assem Rashidi goes on trial, defended by Booth Watson QC, while William's father Sir Julian and sister Grace lead the prosecution case. And William's wife Beth, now a new mother to twins, makes a surprising new friend in Christina Faulkner―the ex-wife of William's former rival, criminal financier Miles - who has not only turned over a new leaf, but also has a new-found source of income when Faulkner dies suddenly of a heart attack and she stands to be sole inheritor of his estate.

As the undercover officers start to draw the threads together, William realizes that the corruption may go deeper still, and more of his colleagues than he first thought might be willing to turn a blind eye.

:hmm:
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Oexmelin

Quote from: Sheilbh on April 01, 2021, 09:58:25 AM
I feel like "Master storyteller" is a red flag for me - and almost exclusively applied to Jeffrey Archer :lol:

Maybe it simply means he's gone through the appropriate stages of apprentice storyteller and journeyman storyteller.
Que le grand cric me croque !

Admiral Yi


celedhring

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Quote from: Oexmelin on April 01, 2021, 12:34:23 PM
Quote from: Sheilbh on April 01, 2021, 09:58:25 AM
I feel like "Master storyteller" is a red flag for me - and almost exclusively applied to Jeffrey Archer :lol:

Maybe it simply means he's gone through the appropriate stages of apprentice storyteller and journeyman storyteller.

Well, there are actually Master Degrees on this... I happen to have one, wouldn't surprise me if Mr. Archer had one too, even if made-up :P

(and the first person that calls me master storyteller gets a slap :P)

Oexmelin

Quote from: celedhring on April 01, 2021, 01:27:59 PM
Well, there are actually Master Degrees on this... I happen to have one, wouldn't surprise me if Mr. Archer had one too, even if made-up :P

That means you could conceivably become Dr. Storyteller.
Que le grand cric me croque !

Sheilbh

Quote from: celedhring on April 01, 2021, 01:27:59 PM
Well, there are actually Master Degrees on this... I happen to have one, wouldn't surprise me if Mr. Archer had one too, even if made-up :P
He actually used to claim to have gone to Oxford where he would have got a fake Masters. But he went to the Oxford University Department for Continuing Education on a one year diploma course :lol:
Let's bomb Russia!

celedhring

Quote from: Oexmelin on April 01, 2021, 01:30:01 PM
Quote from: celedhring on April 01, 2021, 01:27:59 PM
Well, there are actually Master Degrees on this... I happen to have one, wouldn't surprise me if Mr. Archer had one too, even if made-up :P

That means you could conceivably become Dr. Storyteller.

Hey, that sounds quite awesome  :hmm:

Sheilbh

Quote from: celedhring on April 01, 2021, 01:31:25 PM
Quote from: Oexmelin on April 01, 2021, 01:30:01 PM
Quote from: celedhring on April 01, 2021, 01:27:59 PM
Well, there are actually Master Degrees on this... I happen to have one, wouldn't surprise me if Mr. Archer had one too, even if made-up :P

That means you could conceivably become Dr. Storyteller.

Hey, that sounds quite awesome  :hmm:
Dr Storyteller:
Let's bomb Russia!

Admiral Yi

Surely it's Doctor of Storytelling. :nerd:

Syt

I am, somehow, less interested in the weight and convolutions of Einstein's brain than in the near certainty that people of equal talent have lived and died in cotton fields and sweatshops.
—Stephen Jay Gould

Proud owner of 42 Zoupa Points.

The Brain

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