tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7291823984059320518.post6283684235915562733..comments2024-03-26T17:48:56.627+00:00Comments on 'Do You Write Under Your Own Name?': Forgotten Books - Death's Darkest FaceMartin Edwardshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16082485795280777670noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7291823984059320518.post-4397174035176879212016-02-14T02:31:49.714+00:002016-02-14T02:31:49.714+00:00I haven't read anything by Symons in a long ti...I haven't read anything by Symons in a long time, maybe 40 years. This may be the first time I've read anything about this one, and you make it sound very interesting. I just might go looking for it. Thanks!Steve Lewishttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01062947552534707797noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7291823984059320518.post-12217703011121001492016-02-14T01:20:06.374+00:002016-02-14T01:20:06.374+00:00This was the fourth Symons book I read back in Apr...This was the fourth Symons book I read back in April of 1992. The other ones I had read were from the 1970's or earlier. I only thing I remember now about this book was how shocked I was at how sexually explicit it was.Tedhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01713995208529232368noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7291823984059320518.post-51558124826872387252016-02-13T16:48:26.371+00:002016-02-13T16:48:26.371+00:00Symons takes the very bold step of introducing him...Symons takes the very bold step of introducing himself into the story, at the start and at the end.<br /><br />Nevil Shute did a similar thing in one of his wartime books, but although I've scoured my collection and looked at all the Kindle sample chapters on Amazon I can't track it down :( At the start, a scientist is waiting to go in to a meeting at the Royal Aircraft Establishment, Farnborough, and sees an unimposing man who is the story's leading character. Right at the end of the book the scientist is called in to the meeting and is told "I'll tell you that chap's story one day" (or words to that effect).<br /><br />Just another piece of totally irrelevant trivia for you, Martin, as I haven't read Symond's book so cannot comment on it. Fionanoreply@blogger.com