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Post by Patrick on Aug 31, 2010 23:40:54 GMT
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Post by tarzanontarmazepam on Sept 1, 2010 7:32:12 GMT
Only students and lunatics will buy it.
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Post by everso on Sept 1, 2010 12:46:26 GMT
Oxfam would have to pay ME to take it away.
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Post by Weyland on Sept 1, 2010 12:54:07 GMT
Oxfam would have to pay ME to take it away. I was saying almost the same thing to my son not 10 minutes ago. |
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Post by everso on Sept 1, 2010 13:11:08 GMT
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Post by Alpha Hooligan on Sept 1, 2010 19:50:19 GMT
I'd be interested in reading his suicide note...but that's about it.  AH |
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Post by tarzanontarmazepam on Sept 1, 2010 21:05:32 GMT
His interview with Andrew Marr?
He's still media obsessed, he still soundbytes his way through interviews...he is a crashing bore.
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Post by Patrick on Sept 3, 2010 15:54:28 GMT
Some folk have been having a bit of fun with it;  From Channel Four News:
Tony Blair's autobiography is turning up in some unexpected sections of bookshops. Channel 4 News speaks to one political blogger who thinks the plot might just increase sales.
Tony Blair's book should be sitting alongside the memoirs of other political big hitters: Barack Obama, Margaret Thatcher and Bill Clinton but, in some cases, it is also sharing a shelf with Agatha Christie and Ruth Rendell.
A new Facebook group called "Put one of Tony Blair's books in the crime section of your bookshop" has appeared on the internet and there are photos on Twitter beside the tweet: "Brighten up your day by moving at least one of Tony Blair's books to the crime section in your local bookshop".
The memoir is also popping up in other unexpected areas. Channel 4 News has found a photo of it in the Tragic Life Stories section of one well known chain. It is smuggled in with titles including No Safe Place and Vanished.
But Tony Blair is not the only target of this kind of plot. Peter Mandelson's recent memoir The Third Man has been photographed in the fiction section.
Political blogger and bookshop founder Iain Dale told Channel 4 News it is a very British thing to do but ultimately it might backfire on those behind the plan: "It's deeply ironic but if the book appears in different sections it might actually increase sales."
Not that it appears to need any help on that front. Early indications suggest A Journey will be a record breaker in terms of political autobiographies. Some chains have been selling it at less than half price since its launch on Wednesday.
Iain Dale predicts the reach of Facebook and Twitter means more people will get involved: "I suspect it'll put ideas in people's heads. We could see more and more people pick up a copy and move it to whatever section of the shop they want to. I think it could be irritating for bookshop owners if thousands of copies are moved." |
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Post by Weyland on Sept 3, 2010 16:09:39 GMT
Pond Life. Or possibly Serial Killers.
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Post by Alpha Hooligan on Sept 3, 2010 16:24:12 GMT
If Blairs people have anything to do with it, his smarmy smug face will be dominating the Religion section.
I expect Browns book to turn up in the super heroes and fantasy sections.
AH
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Post by motorist on Sept 4, 2010 8:27:10 GMT
I'd be interested in reading his suicide note...but that's about it. AH Yeah, then we'd go "fuckin' Emo" and wipe our butts on it. Class  |
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Post by Deleted on Sept 4, 2010 15:41:53 GMT
I would be qwuite interested to read Blairs book as it goes... obviously taking it all with a pinch of salt, but i would like to read it nonetheless.
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Post by Patrick on Sept 6, 2010 16:07:08 GMT
Well, he's cancelled his London signing - but he still hasn't quite got the message yet!
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