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The inexorable arrival.

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  • 30-09-2005 11:51am
    #1
    GumDropButtons
    Closed Accounts Posts: 19 ✭


    Just letting people know Terry Pratchett's gonna be in town (book signing in Easons O'Connell street) on the 18th of October. 'Twill be cool.... :)


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    WizZard
    Registered Users Posts: 6,762 ✭✭✭WizZard


    Deadly!!! What time???


    Booking the day off work now...

    <edit>Aha
    4.30pm Eason's
    O'Connell St,
    Dublin
    </edit>


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    Shoota
    Registered Users Posts: 93 ✭✭Shoota


    I will also be there: :D

    Can't wait, and I hear the book is very good also.............


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    #4
    spooydermot
    Closed Accounts Posts: 413 ✭✭spooydermot


    i've never been to a book signing in easons before, do yuo have to buy his book there? I'm presuming so.
    Is it OK to bring along one or two of his other books to get signed?

    I heard a while ago that he's quite cool about book signings, tends to hang around until everyone has been seen....not sure if this si still the case though.


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    #5
    WizZard
    Registered Users Posts: 6,762 ✭✭✭WizZard


    Yes, you can bring some of your own but Terry has said himself it's nicer if you buy a book.
    He also says he has no problem with signing a couple of books, but he does not like the people who come with their entire collection to be signed! ;)
    I'll try to find the exact quote...


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    spooydermot
    Closed Accounts Posts: 413 ✭✭spooydermot


    He also says he has no problem with signing a couple of books, but he does not like the people who come with their entire collection to be signed!

    Quite understandable really, considering the huge amount he has published....


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    Oriel
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 5,154 ✭✭✭Oriel


    Belfast the following day!


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    d-arke
    Closed Accounts Posts: 458 ✭✭d-arke


    thats so cool. i'll sooo be heading in for that. the mans a genius with the discworld books, or maybe he's just crazy and actually thinks thats the real world


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    munky
    Closed Accounts Posts: 167 ✭✭munky


    Yeap I'm goin=)And I'm bring my (well ok maybe not mine) college sci-fi society and its gonna be great!I can't wait to meet the man!(Hope my dreams aren't shattered and he turns out to be a tool)


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    WizZard
    Registered Users Posts: 6,762 ✭✭✭WizZard


    Just back from it. Got 4 books signed. He seems very nice - patient, but then he'd need to be :p
    The queue snaked all around the ground floor of Easons when I was leaving.


    /me run's off to read signed copy of Thud!


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    Waltons
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    I was queueing from 5.30 till 7.10! Worth it though. I just got the 2 signed because a woman in front of me decided to get her entire collection signed after the shop had officially closed. Silly woman.
    Still, seems like a sound guy!


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    Kenny_D
    Registered Users Posts: 3,204 ✭✭✭Kenny_D


    I was gonna go in. I only remembered as I was coming home from college. I'm reading Night Watch at the moment and had it in my bag so was gonna go in and get it signed but didnt want to go in without getting a copy of Thud signed and I'd no money on me to buy the book. How much is it in Easons anyway?


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    Shanannigan
    Registered Users Posts: 1,227 ✭✭✭Shanannigan


    http://www.buy4now.ie/eason/productdetail.aspx?pid=2033144&loc=P&catid=1003.4


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    Caoimhe89
    Closed Accounts Posts: 124 ✭✭Caoimhe89


    My friends and I arrived at 4.38 exactly, and our books were signed at around 7. Only true appreciation could have made us wait so long. At first, we thought we'd be there for about a half an hour, pushing at an hour... then, when we FINALLY found the end of the line, we realised we were in for a long wait. With only one seat around half way across. And I can tell you, I know every SINGLE book on that floor of Easons, or at least where to look for it.

    Nick Hornby - over there!
    Travel books - over there!
    Sex books... over there!


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    Kenny_D
    Registered Users Posts: 3,204 ✭✭✭Kenny_D


    Lol. What time did he start signing at? I was in town around lunch hour


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    WizZard
    Registered Users Posts: 6,762 ✭✭✭WizZard


    Started at around 4.10, looks like he finished at around 7.30 :)


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    #17
    Oriel
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 5,154 ✭✭✭Oriel


    He the cancelled Belfast signing.


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    #18
    GumDropButtons
    Closed Accounts Posts: 19 ✭GumDropButtons


    Best experience ever in the queue... we'd been there for a while, and had just reached the *ahem* adult section... this little kid in front of us turns to his mother and says "mommy, do you read those books?" Classic!


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    #19
    Caoimhe89
    Closed Accounts Posts: 124 ✭✭Caoimhe89


    The adult section is strangely placed... anybody notice that? You're just walking along, waiting in your cue, and suddenly the guy in front of you goes 'how the hell does any guy move from here'. You look up and wham! in your face.


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