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>>By Lynn (Saturday, 11 Jun 2005 18:05)
No 'real' title but there's a schedule:
Boy Soldier 3
Andy McNab
Hardcover (May 4, 2006)
Publisher: Doubleday
Language: English
ISBN: 0385608055
>>By Lynn (Monday, 13 Jun 2005 11:14)
SPOILER...BOY SOLDIER SPOILER...SPOILER...BOY SOLDIER SPOILER...
(forgot how to use spoilers)
GREAT NEWS ON PAYBACK AND "BOY SOLDIER 2", NOT TO MENTION AGRESSOR...
HOWEVER, BY READING THE SYNOPSIS OF PAYACK (still not finished boy soldier) I NOW KNOW THAT DANNY, ELENOR & FERGUS, SURVIVE, AND DO NOT GET CAUGHT, AND FINCHAM DOESN'T GET SUSSED OUT.....
?????
SORRY IF I HAVE SPOILED IT, I DID WARN YOU
>>By Shoot-To-Kill (Tuesday, 14 Jun 2005 01:00)
Copy of Boy Soldier is on its way to my house.. I hope it will arrive this time. I will pretend I didn't read it S2K :-)
Maybe this will come in handy:
http://www.gnooks.com/discussion/
text+formatting.html
How to use spoilers and room for practise ;-)
>>By Lynn (Tuesday, 14 Jun 2005 09:20)
I understand Kuju Wireless has the license to publish McNab-related mobile games--anyone know who, if anyone, has pc/console rights?
>>By Just Jon (Tuesday, 14 Jun 2005 12:46)
Dunno, Just Jon...
Rage originally had the development rights but they folded, and I don't recall any info regarding whether they were successful in selling their "still-in-development" project. Not very disappointed tho since I was never that impressed with Rage's sample Team SAS screenshots anyway, so I'm hoping if Team SAS ever does come to market that the new designers/owners/whatever trash Rage's stuff and start over from scratch...
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Psssssst, S2K....
Spoilers work thusly:
At the beginning of spoiler, type (without the spaces): < spoiler >
At the end of spoiler, type (without the spaces): < / spoiler >
As Lynn mentioned, MG even set up a place for practicing:
www.gnooks.com/discussion/text+formatting.html
:o)
>>By am-i-binned (Wednesday, 15 Jun 2005 17:52)
Thanks for the info, AIB.
>>By Just Jon (Thursday, 16 Jun 2005 01:34)
Jon, been looking for some stuff you asked for. Look what I found too: McNab: "I love it! Love doing these chats! "
How come we didn't notice lately!!! ;-)
>>By Lynn (Thursday, 16 Jun 2005 22:31)
Heh, it's not just chats he's slack on...He never calls, he never writes...You'd think he considers me just some crazed, over-zealous fan he's never met!
>>By Just Jon (Friday, 17 Jun 2005 18:53)
Any reason why he should/could think like that Jon ?? lmao ...
>>By Ninjawoman (Friday, 17 Jun 2005 21:05)
No reason, no...My cat told me Andy would call soon, but he HASN'T CALLED! Hey, no problem, I'm fine, no worries, I'm not IN A BLIND RAGE or anything like that...I mean, surely ANDY LOVES ME, right? Right? We're like brothers...we're...like...damn, meds kicking in...sleepy now...
>>By Just Jon (Saturday, 18 Jun 2005 01:38)
Ah well... I'm easily satisfied I suppose. A new chat would do for me. Private preferably. With just F Troop. Or just a few F Troop members. Like just me. Somewhere on the Net. Or somewhere private.
But seriously... what does it take, a chat... like 45 min?? Com'on McNab..
For an Eddie Stone interview..
http://nl.playstation.com/features/
featureStory.jhtml?
storyId=106559_nl_NL_FEAT&linktype=FSOF
Any knowledge of the Dutch language would be recommended though. Ok, one (translated) snippit:
Q: There's a story about SAS recrutes having to become friends with a rabbit for a week, at the end of the week he has to kill it. Is this true?
A: (Eddie Stone) That's rubbish!! It's not the rabbit!!!...but your mate.
;-)
>>By Lynn (Saturday, 18 Jun 2005 14:31)
Now McNab goes for the kids...
He's been in the SAS, becoming a bestselling writer of thrillers... and now he's turning his hand to books for kids. Is there nothing that ANDY McNAB can't do...
(.....)
ANDY McNAB INITIALLY found a (literally) shadowy kind of fame, and no little fortune, with Bravo Two Zero, his visceral tale of SAS derring-do behind enemy lines during the Gulf War. About four years ago he encountered Robert Rigby, the co-writer of his just-published first children's novel, Boy Soldier, in entirely different circumstances.
Both were at Shepperton Studios, involved in totally diverse projects. "We met in the canteen and just got on," recalls Rigby, who was working on scripts for the Thomas the Tank Engine TV programmes. McNab was in the next studio, doing motion capture for video game company, Rage, for an urban shoot 'em up, one of the many strands to a career which, apart from being the best-selling author of seven novels, includes a security business and film consultancy.
So why add 'children's writer' to the list?
(.......) how these two strong, quite disparate characters got on when it came to writing together?
McNab smiles and says it was easy; Rigby thinks for a moment and considers. "We were a little bit anxious to see how we would actually do it," he admits. "We don't sit down at the computer together and write, we plot in great, great detail, scene-by-scene. And, before we started writing the book, we each wrote the beginning separately and then compared what we'd done. It was amazingly close."
They then broke up the book, went away and wrote, swapping what they'd done, rewriting and changing as they went, until they'd got the finished manuscript. It's a system, says McNab, that worked very well.
Full article on:
http://www.bookplace.co.uk/
bookends/be_feature_boysoldier.asp
>>By Lynn (Saturday, 18 Jun 2005 14:43)
I just realized something about the upcoming novel, "Aggressor." Apparently, Nick Stone is surfing in Oz, which strikes me as odd since he's never surfed before in any of the novels. Take it from someone who's done it, you can't just all of a sudden decide to be a surfer and have at it. You're gonna suck for a long, long time before you're worried about bumming from beach to beach living the "lifestyle."
McNab might as well have had Nick Stone passing time by performing tight-rope stunts with Chinese gymnasts. I'm sure Andy knows some surfers, which is great, but it's a bit insulting to have someone imply that any "badass" (ie, Stone) can just all-of-a-sudden become a surfer. I can't wait for the novel after that, where Nick Stone performs a 900 in the vert skateboarding comp in the X-Games...Or maybe he'll just quarterback the winning Super Bowl team...
>>By Just Jon (Monday, 20 Jun 2005 03:28)
I could be wrong about the above, of course...Maybe Nick Stone drives around learning to surf. Or maybe he couldn't reveal his surfing for security reasons...I guess I should give Andy the benefit of the doubt until I read the book. Still seems kinda...Nickelodeon, I guess. Do we really need Nick to be a "gnarly dude?"
>>By Just Jon (Monday, 20 Jun 2005 07:04)
Oh maybe you've never read this before Jon !!
The second smallest Canadian province, Nova Scotia offers a treasure trove of outdoor activities (...) The interior of the island is full of national parks and pristine forests that call to all those interested in hiking, backpacking, and nature study. A day's itinerary can include fishing, swimming, scuba diving, surfing, bicycling, canoeing, kayaking, river rafting, whale and bird watching, and that's just for starters!
The provincial capital, Halifax, outwardly shows a modern face, but its inside is filled with an historic heart.
Off the coast of Halifax is five kilometer long McNab's Island.
And next:
Canada and Australia have friendly and longstanding relations. The relationship is based on numerous similarities in the two countries' ....
Now there's someone with too much time on her hands on a Monday morning (or just takes it, laundry is so much less attractive).
;-)
>>By Lynn (Monday, 20 Jun 2005 09:45)
Jon, have no fear! In the line of the long standing bumble fu*k ups in Stone's live .. he will suck at the surfing, ( hence the babe by his side)
but he will lok the part and play the dude aslong as he is not actualy in/on the water. But you are right, we'll read all about .. later .. and yes laundry sucks in a big way Lynn !!
Surf's up ???
>>By Ninjawoman (Monday, 20 Jun 2005 20:59)
McNab's Island? Awesome! That guy never ceases to amaze me. And you're right Ninj, I'm sure someone close to Stone will get killed, probably in a tragic board-waxing accident. I shouldn't have worried. :)
>>By Just Jon (Tuesday, 21 Jun 2005 05:31)
Mcnab once got surfboard as birthday prezzy from wifey (dunno wich one).
Went surfing in Cornwall, got lost, couldnt come back to shore, had to be fished out by locals.
so much for surfing.....
>>By spiketheprovo (Thursday, 23 Jun 2005 14:06)
LOL, nice one. Nabby oughtta incorporate that into Nick Stone's surfing adventures. It has that nice hapless touch that McNab excels at using for humorous purposes.
BTW, a crap load of SEALs end up taking up surfing...Do the SBS get into as well?
>>By Just Jon (Thursday, 23 Jun 2005 19:33)
SurfBoardStuds ?? Must be ;-)
>>By Lynn (Thursday, 23 Jun 2005 22:08)
yes yes, typical Dutch remark. Xcuse me.
Nice one Spike - it's probably frustration then, bet Nick is an excellent surfer then.... the power of the author ;-))
>>By Lynn (Thursday, 23 Jun 2005 22:10)
This is from elsewhere:
"Liz Rigby, she is a ghost writer for one SAS memoir and also has published at least one novel herself"
Any relation to Robert Rigby??
>>By Lynn (Friday, 24 Jun 2005 00:04)
............just peeping through the letterbox........... !
>>By Reginald (Sunday, 26 Jun 2005 14:42)
oi .. no peeping !!! Just ring the doorbell.. beer is cold !
>>By Ninjawoman (Sunday, 26 Jun 2005 20:34)
Good to see you Reg :-)
Ahem.. an article called : "Become more macho or risk your extinction, men told" in the Telegraph has this:
British men are being told to be alert to a condition that could "put them on the fast track to extinction".
Symptoms of the "illness" that has been dubbed "mantropy" include a penchant for pedicures, fruit smoothies and small dogs.
(...)
Andy McNab, the former SAS officer and best-selling novelist, said there was already evidence that some men were reconnecting with their masculinity in a bid to make themselves more attractive to women.
"I think women want real men in the same way that men want real women," he said. "I do notice that men are trying to be more macho in a bid to attract women."
Should you be interested to know the way to being a 'real man' - read this article:
http://www.becomeaplayer.com/
articles/realman.htm
Of course.. if we demand too much of our men, it will be like this joke:
"My wife told me I should be more affectionate. So I got two girlfriends"
;-))
>>By Lynn (Sunday, 26 Jun 2005 20:41)
'nother thing:
Andy McNab.... said there was already evidence that some men were reconnecting with their masculinity ............. "I do notice that men are trying to be more macho in a bid to attract women."
MORE macho?? More compared to... when? And what is macho?
Some do's and don't IMHO:
(not for kids!)
DON'T
http://narfherder23.tripod.com/images/
drunk_guy.jpg
http://www.statepress.com/images/issues/
cheating.jpg
http://www.clipsahoy.com/clipart2/as2261.gif
http://www.klub-kkm.si/razno/macho.jpg
DO
http://onlinedate.lfchosting.com/cards/
romantic.jpg
http://www.somejokes.com/images/
Never%20Stops%20Until%20the%
20Job%20is%20Done.jpg
http://www.islandweddingmemories.com/
Carte/Romantic%20dinners%20main_%20Lg..jpg
http://www.gatekeepers.ca/photos/
woman-creditcard.jpg
>>By Lynn (Sunday, 26 Jun 2005 22:30)
Hi as a surfer, hey i'm welsh i live near the best beaches in the uk for surfing sorry all you cornish guy but well we say we have the best you ahve teh biggest lol.. Well if you dont take in thurso on a really wind swept winters day woo doggiee...
The idea of nick stone surfing is like someone waking up one day and saying they are going to open a threee star michelin restaurant and then cant even make beans on toast.. Wehn iw as 18 i ahd teh chance to go with my mates toOz and hawaii dad wa sill so never went, but they told me about their trip and Oz is not the place for anovice for a start apart from the sharks box jelly fish they ahving something in northen queensland which is even worse its called a salt water crocodile and lives in the sea and grows to a length of a bus.. so you also have sea snakes various sharks and jelly fish lol, then you go to hawaii wahamaiha or north shore and piple line etc waves so big you think your riding on a block of flats and when you get hit by that wave you get shoved onto the coral reef below...
Argh but what they dont tell you if you dont use anative plant you can get very ill from teh coral, and it leaves a really bad scar.
I wrote a book about surfing yes me f-trooper bri.. and i can say one thing oz iz wild and no one who has been surfing for a even a few years would go and try teh big waves you need years of practise and swimming in shit and condoms even had some false teeth and the odd female santary towel float past in the old days beaches are a lot cleaner now.
Skydiving yeah ok i can understna dbut surfing mmm tall order like i said one of my friends still has the scars from a small box jelly fish he was lucky , half an dinch bigger and he wouldnt be here and he didnt even see it a sit comes in on the wave.
Hey lynn when is the baseball game and where flork me
bri
>>By brianBJJ (Monday, 27 Jun 2005 02:29)
McNab says that Nick Stones good qualities are based on 'others' and the bad qualities on himself. Surfing might be 'the other' then ;-)
Hey.. for all we know he's been practising for years and keeping it in the dark as much as his face.
Still an interesting piece Bri - I thought surfing was about water and a board. Guess there's more to it. (As anything in life is.)
I'll flork you about the baseball.. but it hurts.. oh boy it hurts ;-))
>>By Lynn (Monday, 27 Jun 2005 09:20)
Jon's Top Ten Signs You're Too Macho:
10. You clean your rifle more often than you shower.
9. You consider G. Gordon Liddy "too liberal."
8. When you think about baseball during sex, it turns you on MORE.
7. You killed a man once. Today.
6. You named your bayonet after your mother's bayonet.
5. After kicking someone's ass, you celebrate by kicking someone else's ass.
4. You're a guy from Georgia named Jon, and you're just really freaking macho.
3. You shoot your pets when they get sick...or sassy.
2. You used hair gel once, and ever since, you've worried you might be gay.
1. Andy McNab is your second favorite author, right after that guy who writes the Army Field Manuals.
Yeah, yeah, I know I'm not gonna be hired by "The Late Show" anytime soon. Besides, I'm too macho to be funny.
>>By Just Jon (Monday, 27 Jun 2005 13:16)
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