Alex Scarrow

Profile Information:

Hometown:
Norwich, UK
About Me:
Author of LAST LIGHT and A THOUSAND SUNS. I'm beavering away on the next, but it can be quite a lonely business, tucked away in my study. So it's nice to be able to chew the cud with people with a passion for books.

If the surname sounds vaguely familiar, my brother is Simon Scarrow, author of the roman series.
I Am A:
Writer
Website:
http://www.scarrow.co.uk
Books And Authors I Like:
Nevil Shute, Jack Higgins, Alex Garland, Joseph Finder.

In my younger years I was a big fan of scifi by the likes of Philip Jose Farmer, Greg Bear and James Herbert. It's been a long time since I've read much in the way of scifi, but you know what?...I'm drifting back to it again. I'm getting a little tired of the thriller/crime market.
Movies And TV Shows I Like:
Not much of a fan of TV these days. I used to enjoy it a lot, back before we were inundated with dozens and dozens of channels of digital crud. If I watch anything at all these days, it's Newsnight, Questiontime and hmmm...that's it.

Movies, ah...different story. Love movies. If you put a gun to my head and asked me to pick three favourites I'd say: Sophie's Choice, 2001, Children of Men.

But sheeesh...you'd probably get an entirely different answer if you put a gun to my head tomorrow

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  • L.J. Sellers

    Hi Alex
    I like your movie choices. What did you think of V for Vendetta?
    Lj

    Sep 4, 2008

  • Alex Scarrow

    loved it. Although I generally don't dig superhero nonsense, this was by far one of the best graphic novel to movie conversions. Keeping a keen eye on Watchmen for now.

    nb: good to hook up with you. ;-)

    Sep 5, 2008

  • Steven St. Sure

    Hi Alex, I can identify with your comments on Scifi and thriller/crime. I liked Asimov's novels that were both. Remember the detectives sidekick a robot? One of the books was called Caves of Steel I think.

    Nov 5, 2009