Lucena wrote: » I’m reading « A Game of Thrones », the first book in the A Song of Ice and Fire Series. Only about 100 pages in but struggling to remember all the characters. There’s a list at the back of the book, but I daren’t look in case I find out something that hasn’t happened yet (death, secretly the father of X or whatever). Can anyone tell me if it’s safe to look?
Sleepy wrote: » Mid-way through book 6 of The Wheel of Time. After finishing this one I think I need to read something factual before progressing with the series!
Sleepy wrote: » Mid-way through book 6 of The Wheel of Time. After finishing this one I think I need to read something factual before progressing with the series, 6 books in the same universe is a bit of overkill!
david75 wrote: » Just finished Who I am, the Pete Townshend autobiography. He's had some life!
NothingMan wrote: » Twice I've tried to re-read the series and twice got stuck on book 7. There's a couple of tough books to get through but it is worth it. (espexcially when Sanderson takes over imo).
--Kaiser-- wrote: » Read book 7 (A Crown of Swords?) it's the last good one that Jordan wrote. The next few books after it are woeful (but apparently Sanderson did a good job of finishing the series)
Conall Cernach wrote: » Raymond Chandler's The Big Sleep.
An Outside Context Problem was the sort of thing most civilisations encountered just once, and which they tended to encounter rather in the same way a sentence encountered a full stop. The usual example given to illustrate an Outside Context Problem was imagining you were a tribe on a largish, fertile island; you'd tamed the land, invented the wheel or writing or whatever, the neighbours were cooperative or enslaved but at any rate peaceful and you were busy raising temples to yourself with all the excess productive capacity you had, you were in a position of near-absolute power and control which your hallowed ancestors could hardly have dreamed of and the whole situation was just running along nicely like a canoe on wet grass… when suddenly this bristling lump of iron appears sailless and trailing steam in the bay and these guys carrying long funny-looking sticks come ashore and announce you've just been discovered, you're all subjects of the Emperor now, he's keen on presents called tax and these bright-eyed holy men would like a word with your priests.
Killer Wench wrote: » I just self-published my first book nearly two weeks ago. I'm currently 50,000 words into my second book. I wish that I could read more, but I'm genuinely afraid of blending someone's storytelling into mine.
9959 wrote: » Congratulations, what type of book is it? What's the title? By the way, I wouldn't be too scared of reading for fear of future plagiarism, a writer being 'inspired' by something he/she has read is as legitimate as a songwriter being moved to write a song after hearing a great tune on the radio, as long as you put your own stamp on it it's yours. Hope it goes well for you, good luck!
Killer Wench wrote: » It's an erotic romance! Fifty sales in twelve days. Not too bad! There was a scandal that broke in late June about an erotic romance writer who lifted total sentences and paragraphs from other more widely-known romance novels. The author shot up to break the Top 10 within a month. But, as more people read it, the more people who were familiar with the other works. The fall-out was spectacular. Customers were refunded and the 'author' lost all royalty (it would have been a huge payout). As a result, many book bloggers and reviewers are declining to work with self-published authors. Add to that, readers are already reluctant to take a chance on self-published authors because they don't believe that we can make well-crafted books without middle men.
Mr. G wrote: » Generally, if I start a book I'll never finish it. I've been reading Jeffrey Archer for the last 2 months. I'm not gone through 100 pages yet, I'm slow and ill forget it all when I don't read it for a few days. I've no interest in fiction to be honest. I'd read technical books and magizines. I am not exactly a big reader.
