Post by Captain Emerald on Nov 1, 2004 7:26:55 GMT -5
This was in the front of Colony, the bit about the author. I just found it very funny, especially the end bit:
Rob Grant was born in Salford. Despite being hopelessly and incurably tone-deaf, he spent ten years at Chetham's School of Music. He maintained his place in the soprano section of the cathedral choir long after his voice broke by silently mimicking the lip movements of the person in the opposite row. Even though insanly liberal lectures provided the exam questions months befor the exams, he managed to fail his second year at university without even sobering up. He has been fired from every job he has ever had, including selling ice-cream and shoes, moving drums around in a chemical factory, and an eighteen month stint putting paper into one end of a computer printer and taking it out of the other. He spent what he can remember of the eighties churning out radio scripts for every living comedian before moving into television. He co-created Red Dwarf for BBC television in 1983, and in 1988 BBC television actually got round to making it. He recently created and wrote the pre-medieval comedy Dark Ages for ITV, and the alien-invasion comedy The Strangerers for Sky.
Colony is his first novel since the international bestseller Backwards.
He has the chiselled body of an Olympic athlete, makes love like a Greek god and has the vivid imagination of an incurable congenital liar.
Lol! ;D
Rob Grant was born in Salford. Despite being hopelessly and incurably tone-deaf, he spent ten years at Chetham's School of Music. He maintained his place in the soprano section of the cathedral choir long after his voice broke by silently mimicking the lip movements of the person in the opposite row. Even though insanly liberal lectures provided the exam questions months befor the exams, he managed to fail his second year at university without even sobering up. He has been fired from every job he has ever had, including selling ice-cream and shoes, moving drums around in a chemical factory, and an eighteen month stint putting paper into one end of a computer printer and taking it out of the other. He spent what he can remember of the eighties churning out radio scripts for every living comedian before moving into television. He co-created Red Dwarf for BBC television in 1983, and in 1988 BBC television actually got round to making it. He recently created and wrote the pre-medieval comedy Dark Ages for ITV, and the alien-invasion comedy The Strangerers for Sky.
Colony is his first novel since the international bestseller Backwards.
He has the chiselled body of an Olympic athlete, makes love like a Greek god and has the vivid imagination of an incurable congenital liar.
Lol! ;D
;D