Talk:Sebastian Faulks

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why do we need to know the names of his nephew's best friends?

I have added a very detailed biography for Sebastian Faulks, literary themes, bibliography and hope to work on some of the plot summaries for his novels. Have already done Charlotte Gray (novel), On Green Dolphin Street, Human Traces, and Engleby. Ivankinsman 08:04, 20 May 2007 (UTC)

He doesn't live in Holland Park, he lives on Ladbroke Grove.


 * OK, well why not change it yourself? I have amended this detail Ivankinsman 09:34, 13 July 2007 (UTC)

The Footprints on Mount Low
is there an ISBN? randomhouse.co.uk, worldcat, amazon and ebay don't know the title; only one anonymous thingamabrarian knows Mount Low -- Cherubino 22:00, 13 July 2007 (UTC)

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The Literary Themes
is awful, breathless pandering. It may all be true, but is it really fact to say 'Faulks often seems to be at war with himself'?

Rewrite? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 129.67.144.78 (talk) 22:06, 12 February 2009 (UTC)
 * I wrote this main article on SF and one has to have a certain amount of 'artistic licence' when describing literary fiction - after all, it is not the same as describing tractor components. I don't really see what the problem is here...Ivankinsman (talk) 06:30, 29 August 2009 (UTC)

A Week in December

SF comments on the instrusive role of technology in our lives in a Daily Telegraph article (29th August, 2009):

"Screens that have supplanted human communication, the alternative life of chat-rooms, internet information that saps the quest for real knowledge, reality television undermining reality. “We are living in a fractured society,” he says. “Everyone is doing their own thing. I do think this atomisation, to use a vogue word, is a threat.

What disturbs me is how increasingly reliant we are on this and this [he jabs at his computer screen and mobile phone]. When I went to France for the first time, aged nine, it was exciting. French fields! A French tree! But when my children go on holiday they don’t really notice the drive because they are texting or tapping. I’m not critical of them, but now everywhere is pretty much the same.”

Personally, I think Sebastian Faulk's has perceptively defined an interesting theme here. It seems that a generation is being bought up on a diet of lap tops, mobile phones, iPods, computer games consoles etc. - what happened to reading a great book and perhaps listening to your favourite radio station at the same time? Modern day society is so fluid, or people spend so much time at their work, that it is much easier now to tap out a message rather than speaking face-to-face (I must confess here that I am prone to this nowadays). I am looking forward to reading and its focus on this concept of 'atomisation'.Ivankinsman (talk) 06:40, 29 August 2009 (UTC)

Spam
The whole article is a lot of spamming. I suspect it is largely written by Faulks himself, using sock-puppets. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 86.137.170.8 (talk) 11:38, 19 June 2009 (UTC) Someone with more time can identify the sock-puppets. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 217.44.192.111 (talk) 13:03, 19 June 2009 (UTC)
 * Complete tripe I'm afraid and what on earth are sock-puppets? Puppets that you put into your Christmas stocking? Socks with a puppet design on them? Ivankinsman (talk) 06:32, 29 August 2009 (UTC)
 * If the cap fits, wear it. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 86.162.114.225 (talk) 07:52, 12 September 2009 (UTC)

Copyright problem removed
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Sebastian Faulks Article

Can I ask why you - Yoenit- have removed all the information about Sebastian Faulks that I SPENT A HUGE AMOUNT OF TIME ON RESEARCHING. What you have left is a simple list of facts about this writer and IT IS A TOTAL DISGRACE, as you are as an editor. Who can I appeal to to have your work reviewed - I want this done by another Wikipedia editor who is totally independent and objective. You have simply removed all the information without ascertaining/giving a good enough reason for this. You say that it is all copyright violiations but that is simply not the case - it is complete crap to say that all this information was taken from the amazon article you have mentioned. Please can someone advise? Ivankinsman (talk) 10:08, 21 November 2010 (UTC)


 * Unfortunately, as you are a serial copyright infringer, when there is evidence or reason to believe that you have copied content, it must be removed. --Moonriddengirl (talk) 12:01, 21 November 2010 (UTC)

The Long White Winter
This appeared in the Bibliography section but I cannot find any sources for it so I have removed it. GrahamHardy (talk) 01:09, 24 February 2011 (UTC)
 * The IP that added it was later blocked for vandalism. Their additions should have been checked. I imagine this was vandalism too. The page was stripped right back in October 2010 after copyright violation enforcement. The article needs a lot of work. Again. Thanks for your additions. Span (talk) 01:19, 24 February 2011 (UTC)

New novel?
There doesn't seem to be anything here about Faulks' new novel, "A Possible Life". We might need to work on that. -- Editor510  drop us a line, mate  19:24, 26 October 2012 (UTC)