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Stopper

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I'm a 57 year old chemist with an MA in Literature and the History of Ideas and a love of literature, science, history and just about every other damned thing you can think about, and I'm also a complete sceptic when it comes to anything from the media, politicians, and corporations, to which we can all now add bankers. I live and work in Preston, but I hail from Musselburgh in Scotland.

favourite books

Dostoyevsky is my favourite author, Kafka probably my second favourite, with but recent books I've read and really liked are Seven Types of Ambiguity, by Eliot Perlman; Cloud Atlas by David Mitchell; The Wind-up Bird Chronicle by Haruki Murakami to name three, also going back a bit and being reminded by another here, A Scots Quair, particularly the first volume, Sunset Song is superb , Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad, The House with Green Shutters by George Douglas Brown, brilliant for the harsh hard as nails father theme that is very Scottish. Oh, and House of Leaves by Mark Z Danielewski

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my books

The Perilous Adventures of an ....

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The words are boring, the letters are unhappy, the punctuation marks are well pissed off, so the last full stop needs to sort things out.


There's a crisis in the language and letters are not very happy, they want better words, sentences, but all they are offered are Acronyms and Abbreviations and only capitals get those jobs.

So Stopper the full stop in the title is asked to investigate why the language is not educating , elucidating, and expanding, which is its remit.

Stopper is assisted in this quest by Zero, an italicised u, 3 commas and various other characters. As the investigation proceeds, Stopper and co find themselves sucked into the story, The story that takes them from one subconscious where the language use is a bit ropey, through the unconscious and the Scream of the Amygdala.

Then into a second subconscious where language is completely controlled in Acronym City, then onward into a second unconscious to meet the sardonic Hypothalamus, and then on to the final subconscious where the final battle for the freedom of the language is engaged.

 

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I wrote 15 days ago

Right T, I love the first chapter, like the second, love the idea of an alcoholic mother but I don't like the way she speaks; me for my and of for have for instance, first I don't think it's necessary and second it makes it a little difficult to read in an annoying kind of way. I think you should... view book

I wrote 78 days ago

PLC review (final) Normsville I'm starting to enjoy this more as I read on but I'm honestly not sure if that's because the writing, plot, tension, or whatever is improving or whether I'm just tuning into it better, getting used to it you might say. My suspicion is that it is a combination of the... view book

I wrote 83 days ago

PLC Review (2 of 3)(whither the tension?) I'm puzzled by this, I mean it's clever, though as I keep getting told myself clever isn't everything, well no, but then clever isn't everything here either. The writing is of a fair to better quality, and there is a story here that keeps dipping in and o... view book

I wrote 88 days ago

PLC review (1st glance) Normsville There is a slowly opening promise here of something interesting witty,fun and well just maybe good to boot. I like the way our intrepid two steps on the stairs at a time Emily is just discarded as a character with complete confidence and aplomb. I like the ea... view book

I wrote 95 days ago

PLC Review This is one strange tale in that it does it's damndest to keep itself from starting. Each sentence seems to be an opener only for the next one and that is for me a tad disappointing. Now I know that what I describe here is not a mistake, this is no catalogue of errors but this is the w... view book

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