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Elmore Leonard has suffered a stroke.

 

it happened a week ago, last Monday. He's doing better every day, and the family is guardedly optimistic,

 

according to the report.

 

Elmore Leonard is 87.

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Elmore Leonard has suffered a stroke.

 

it happened a week ago, last Monday. He's doing better every day, and the family is guardedly optimistic,

 

according to the report.

 

Elmore Leonard is 87.

 

His family have been proven totally wrong. They've got shorty.

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We can only hope that Nelson Mandelas families predictions of his recovery are as accurate as Leonards family were

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Sci-fi writer Frederik Pohl dead at 93.

 

Hmm. I read (and like) quite some of his work. Oh well, 96 is quite a good innings.

 

regards,

Hein

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Sci-fi writer Frederik Pohl dead at 93.

 

Hmm. I read (and like) quite some of his work. Oh well, 96 is quite a good innings.

 

regards,

Hein

 

Damn he was going to be on my team for 2014.

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I have decided to update the list of Booker prize winners to remove the deceased and bring it up to date. I am just about to embark on Wolf Hall.

 

V S Naipaul (1932)

John Berger (1926)

Nadine Gordimer (1923)

David Storey (1933)

Salman Rushdie (1947)

Thomas Keneally (1935)

J M Coetzee (1940)

Anita Brookner (1928)

Keri Hume (1947)

Penelope Lively (1933)

Peter Carey (1943)

Kazuo Ishiguro (1954)

A S Byatt (1936)

Ben Okri (1959)

Michael Ondaatje (1943)

Roddy Doyle (1958)

James Kelman (1946)

Pat Barker (1943)

Graham Swift (1949)

Arundhati Roy (1961)

Ian McEwan (1948)

Margaret Atwood (1939)

Yann Martel (1963)

DBC Pierre (1961)

Alan Hollinghurst (1954)

John Banville (1945)

Kiran Desai (1971)

Anne Enright (1962)

Aravind Adiga (1974)

Hilary Mantel (1952)

Howard Jacobson (1942)

Julian Barnes (1946)

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Good work above. Gordimer and Berger (the oldest) are nailed-on obitable!

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Good work above. Gordimer and Berger (the oldest) are nailed-on obitable!

 

It would be a shame on the UK press if an obit was missed for any of these.

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Did he ever find Red October?

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Did he ever find Red October?

 

Not that I'm aware of.

 

I wasn't aware either of any clear and present danger to his health.

 

regards,

Hein

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Dead Storm Rising.

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Look like for him the Time To Kill was Tuesday

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Look like for him the Time To Kill was Tuesday

 

Erm, wasn't that John Grisham?

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Author Tom Clancy has died, the other day, I'm not sure if it was mentioned in here, yet anywhere, tho.

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Author Tom Clancy has died, the other day, I'm not sure if it was mentioned in here, yet anywhere, tho.

Yes! It's in the authors thread mentioned yesterday.

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Author Tom Clancy has died, the other day, I'm not sure if it was mentioned in here, yet anywhere, tho.

Yes! It's in the authors thread mentioned yesterday.

>.>

<.<

Yeah, I saw that, after I posted. :/ I was gonna post it, yesterday, but, for some reason, my comp wouldn't load this site. :/

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Author Tom Clancy has died, the other day, I'm not sure if it was mentioned in here, yet anywhere, tho.

Yes! It's in the authors thread mentioned yesterday.

>.>

<.<

Yeah, I saw that, after I posted. :/ I was gonna post it, yesterday, but, for some reason, my comp wouldn't load this site. :/

 

Definitely one of the biggest deaths in a while and maybe of the year depends on how the rest of the year goes. I can't think of a more famous author to die since michael crichton.

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Author Tom Clancy has died, the other day, I'm not sure if it was mentioned in here, yet anywhere, tho.

Yes! It's in the authors thread mentioned yesterday.

>.>

<.<

Yeah, I saw that, after I posted. :/ I was gonna post it, yesterday, but, for some reason, my comp wouldn't load this site. :/

 

Definitely one of the biggest deaths in a while and maybe of the year depends on how the rest of the year goes. I can't think of a more famous author to die since michael crichton.

 

A very geographical opinion. In the UK James Herbert and Iain Banks were pretty big news.

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Obviously we have no friends on the Booker prize judging panel. This morning it was being reported that the oldest contender Jim Crace was the most likely winner but they go and give it to a 28 year old girl. However in all fairness I am going to add her to my list just so she knows that it is not all book festivals and literary luncheons she has to put up with being discussed on the Deathlist.

 

V S Naipaul (1932)

John Berger (1926)

Nadine Gordimer (1923)

David Storey (1933)

Salman Rushdie (1947)

Thomas Keneally (1935)

J M Coetzee (1940)

Anita Brookner (1928)

Keri Hume (1947)

Penelope Lively (1933)

Peter Carey (1943)

Kazuo Ishiguro (1954)

A S Byatt (1936)

Ben Okri (1959)

Michael Ondaatje (1943)

Roddy Doyle (1958)

James Kelman (1946)

Pat Barker (1943)

Graham Swift (1949)

Arundhati Roy (1961)

Ian McEwan (1948)

Margaret Atwood (1939)

Yann Martel (1963)

DBC Pierre (1961)

Alan Hollinghurst (1954)

John Banville (1945)

Kiran Desai (1971)

Anne Enright (1962)

Aravind Adiga (1974)

Hilary Mantel (1952)

Howard Jacobson (1942)

Julian Barnes (1946)

Eleanor Catton (1985)

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