The book of Henry Padovani is now available in english !

[Maud138]

The book is staring at me from it's place on the shelve: "read me read me read me".
I think I'm gonna postpone and enjoy the fact that I have it and can start reading whenever I like.

Photo's are great! There are a lot there that I have never seen before.

[sockii]

Anyone else in the US order and receive this yet?

I placed my order December 19 and got a response it would ship "in three days" "first class"...still waiting to see it...just wondering if I should poke to find out if something happened to my order or not.

Hate being a pest, but, it was kind of pricey with the conversion rates these days...

[ltwoman]

sockii--
I placed my order on Dec. 3 and received the package sometime before Christmas. I don't rememeber exactly when but their mailing envelope says it was sent from the UK on the 12th. Hope that helps.
LT

[Maud138]

Sockii: The book is worth it! I enjoyed it very very much.

Henri is a really sweet guy.

[ltwoman]

Sockii: The book is worth it! I enjoyed it very very much.

Henri is a really sweet guy.

Yes. And such enthusiasm for everything he touches! Joie de vivre (is that right? He just seems to happy!)

[English-lion]

Loved it Lol reading about his first time ..... I little to much info .... .but read that chapter many times

Henry didn't need the Police but you've got to wonder how it could have been

[sockii]

well hey, looks like my speaking of it summoned its arrival - just got the book today!

[sockii]

I've now finished reading the book. Overall I enjoyed it.

I just, my good gong, I wish it had been proofread and edited. I don't know if the rampant technical (and otherwise) errors were because of the translation more than anything else, but for a grammar and punctuation stickler it was kind of seriously painful to get through, at times...

[English-lion]

I've now finished reading the book. Overall I enjoyed it.

I just, my good gong, I wish it had been proofread and edited. I don't know if the rampant technical (and otherwise) errors were because of the translation more than anything else, but for a grammar and punctuation stickler it was kind of seriously painful to get through, at times...

I can understand that! Some chapters were like that for me too
But it has some gem stories thou!!!

[sockii]

I've now finished reading the book. Overall I enjoyed it.

I just, my good gong, I wish it had been proofread and edited. I don't know if the rampant technical (and otherwise) errors were because of the translation more than anything else, but for a grammar and punctuation stickler it was kind of seriously painful to get through, at times...

I can understand that! Some chapters were like that for me too
But it has some gem stories thou!!!

Definitely some gem stories. I just wish Henry had had the aide of a good editor to put them in better shape.

It wasn't so much a chapter-by-chapter issue to me (although there were a few chapters that seemed to be completely out of place or out of order, or did not flow at all well from where the last chapter had ended...far more so than some of the ADD aspects of SC's book as has been discussed here before!)

Perhaps it is just the language snob in me, but the poor job in getting grammar correct in the translation really made it a struggle at times for me to get through. Especially when it came to dialog and dialog punctuation--it wasn't even consistently wrong in the book, it just followed no rules at all and varied from one line of dialog to the next. That is, sometimes the lines of dialog had punctuation inside the quotes, but in the next line it was outside the quotes. The line after that the punctuation would be both inside AND outside, and then occasionally there'd be no punctuation at all...! This is one of my biggest personal pet grammar peeves from years of editing work for friends and others, so it really made me gnash my teeth seeing it in a published book.

Plus there was a lot of misspellings, abuse of ellipses... and repeat???? punctuation!!!!, problems with paragraph indentation, problems with the translator obviously being confused at times about which gender pronouns to use to refer to Wayne/Jayne Country...enough small problems that unfortunately all added up to made the book feel far less than professionally produced, a bit of a shame considering the price tag.

I dunno. I feel bad speaking negatively of it because as mentioned, Henry does have some interesting stories to tell here and those interested in the early days of the Police and his involvement in the punk scene after that should find good stuff contained within. I just sorely hope that someday, someone decides to give the book a professional workover and make it a little more coherent and easy-to-read.

[MariaH]

I just ordered my copy yesterday from Henry's site including the CD and it cost a little over $40 US dollars. They gave me no indication of how long it would take to get here.

Masayo has been talking about it alot on Facebook as she is currently reading it. I cant wait to get as I was thinking of beginning "the trilogy" again in order of release.
Sting's book/ Andy's book/ Stewart's book...
Henry's book & then maybe even Ian's again.