Sign in with Facebook
Alex Keller’s Followers (9)
481 books
|
2,238 friends
3,228 books
|
243 friends
2,962 books
|
270 friends
1,825 books
|
915 friends
13,022 books
|
280 friends
1,520 books
|
2,837 friends
5,933 books
|
477 friends
979 books
|
3,968 friends
More friends…
Alex Keller
Goodreads Author
Born
in The United Kingdom
Website
Genre
Influences
Terry Pratchett, Somerset Maugham, Guy De Maupassant, whoever I'm curr
...more
Member Since
April 2010
To ask
Alex Keller
questions,
please sign up.
More books by Alex Keller…
School/Library Visits 2014-2015 Academic Year
March:
05/03/2014 – Cambridge Road CP & N School, Cheshire
Topics Mentioning This Author
| topics | posts | views | last activity | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Children's Book G...: alex keller | 1 | 1 | Jun 20, 2013 11:37AM |
“If you hate a person, you hate something in him that is part of yourself. What isn't part of ourselves doesn't disturb us.”
― Demian: Die Geschichte von Emil Sinclairs Jugend
― Demian: Die Geschichte von Emil Sinclairs Jugend
“Whoever wants music instead of noise, joy instead of pleasure, soul instead of gold, creative work instead of business, passion instead of foolery, finds no home in this trivial world of ours.”
―
―
“It's not worth doing something unless someone, somewhere, would much rather you weren't doing it.”
―
―
“The three rules of the Librarians of Time and Space are: 1) Silence; 2) Books must be returned no later than the last date shown; and 3) Do not interfere with the nature of causality.”
― Guards! Guards!
― Guards! Guards!
“The reason that the rich were so rich, Vimes reasoned, was because they managed to spend less money.
Take boots, for example. He earned thirty-eight dollars a month plus allowances. A really good pair of leather boots cost fifty dollars. But an affordable pair of boots, which were sort of OK for a season or two and then leaked like hell when the cardboard gave out, cost about ten dollars. Those were the kind of boots Vimes always bought, and wore until the soles were so thin that he could tell where he was in Ankh-Morpork on a foggy night by the feel of the cobbles.
But the thing was that good boots lasted for years and years. A man who could afford fifty dollars had a pair of boots that'd still be keeping his feet dry in ten years' time, while the poor man who could only afford cheap boots would have spent a hundred dollars on boots in the same time and would still have wet feet.
This was the Captain Samuel Vimes 'Boots' theory of socioeconomic unfairness.”
― Men at Arms: The Play
Take boots, for example. He earned thirty-eight dollars a month plus allowances. A really good pair of leather boots cost fifty dollars. But an affordable pair of boots, which were sort of OK for a season or two and then leaked like hell when the cardboard gave out, cost about ten dollars. Those were the kind of boots Vimes always bought, and wore until the soles were so thin that he could tell where he was in Ankh-Morpork on a foggy night by the feel of the cobbles.
But the thing was that good boots lasted for years and years. A man who could afford fifty dollars had a pair of boots that'd still be keeping his feet dry in ten years' time, while the poor man who could only afford cheap boots would have spent a hundred dollars on boots in the same time and would still have wet feet.
This was the Captain Samuel Vimes 'Boots' theory of socioeconomic unfairness.”
― Men at Arms: The Play
Children's Book Group
— 4 members
— last activity Nov 06, 2013 12:07PM
A group for children to talk about there favorite books
Comments (showing 1-2)
post a comment »
date
newest »
newest »
Hiya, I bought your first book off you yesterday at the MCM Expo, I read it all last night and loved it, so I came back to get the second one today! Thought I'd just say hi on here :) x
That's really kind of you to say, thanks!
Al.
Katie wrote: "Hiya, I bought your first book off you yesterday at the MCM Expo, I read it all last night and loved it, so I came back to get the second one today!
Thought I'd just say hi on here :) x"