{"id":142,"date":"2008-05-14T11:57:49","date_gmt":"2008-05-14T19:57:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.timdefenderoftheearth.com\/news\/?p=142"},"modified":"2008-05-14T12:04:34","modified_gmt":"2008-05-14T20:04:34","slug":"guestbook-goodness-and-a-fine-review","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.timdefenderoftheearth.com\/news\/?p=142","title":{"rendered":"Guestbook Goodness – and a fine review!"},"content":{"rendered":"

My, my, what a lot of updates I seem to be posting lately! But I’ve got<\/em> to tell you about these:<\/p>\n

First up, here’s a wonderful review of Tim<\/strong><\/a> that was forwarded this morning from my UK publishers. YAY!<\/p>\n

‘REX AND VIOLENCE:
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Forget your Dark Materials<\/em>, Eragons<\/em> and Narnia<\/em>s. If ever a children’s book deserves to be given the big-screen treatment, this is it. Just imagine slipping into your cinema seat to watch a colossal dinosaur (the eponymous Tim – Tyrannosaur: Improved Model) ripping Big Ben from its foundations before lobbing it at its foe, a scientist whose use of nanotechnology has resulted in him becoming an Earth-destroying monster. Then picture said bad guy picking up the London Eye and slamming it over Tim’s scaly head. Michael Bay, are you reading this?<\/strong><\/p>\n

Sam Enthoven’s action-packed book tells the story of Tim and the two children who get caught up in his unintentional carnage (the big lug is a sweetie at heart, y’see.) Enthoven writes with charm and humour, while Tim is as loveable as any London-smashing behemoth can be. It’s a stupendous – and thoroughly British – read, but would look even better on screen. Anyone fancy whipping up a screenplay? Go on. It’d kick Transformers’<\/em> ass…<\/strong><\/p>\n

Four and a half stars out of five, from JAYNE NELSON at SFX Magazine<\/a>.<\/strong>‘<\/strong><\/p>\n

You know what? As it happens, I do<\/em> have a piece of not-entirely-un-film-related news bulging up my sleeve here. My lips must remain sealed for the time being, but watch this space. HEE HEE HEE HEE!<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, take a look at the bottom of this blog post (oh: erm, for anyone reading this from Amazon, you’ll either have to check the Tim site or take my word for it…!)<\/p>\n

Yep: as of today, and thanks to the unspeakable genius of The WebSphinx, there’s now a ‘signature’ at the end of each post, with quick links that will take you to one or other of my websites’ Guestbooks. We reckon this is a better system than the traditional ‘comments’, because it’s safely anonymous and the entries won’t be tied to specific posts. I love getting messages, so drop me a line! \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

My, my, what a lot of updates I seem to be posting lately! But I’ve got to tell you about these: First up, here’s a wonderful review of Tim that was forwarded this morning from my UK publishers. YAY! ‘REX AND VIOLENCE: Forget your Dark Materials, Eragons and Narnias. If ever a children’s book deserves […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.timdefenderoftheearth.com\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.timdefenderoftheearth.com\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.timdefenderoftheearth.com\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.timdefenderoftheearth.com\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.timdefenderoftheearth.com\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=142"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.timdefenderoftheearth.com\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.timdefenderoftheearth.com\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=142"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.timdefenderoftheearth.com\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=142"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.timdefenderoftheearth.com\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=142"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}