aluminiumtrioxid Posted October 26, 2017 Share Posted October 26, 2017 Been slowly working my way through this one in the last month: Not feeling particularly smarter or more knowledgeable about the subject, but that's probably a good thing. "Lulz is not the highest aspiration of art and mankind, no matter what the Encyclopedia Dramatica says." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fiach Posted October 26, 2017 Share Posted October 26, 2017 (edited) Been slowly working my way through this one in the last month: Not feeling particularly smarter or more knowledgeable about the subject, but that's probably a good thing. That looks cool, is there much art work? Dunno if I should get it for Kindle or a real book. You might like this : https://www.amazon.com/Crusader-Search-Jerusalem-Tim-Severin-ebook/dp/B00HGIC08O/ref=sr_1_1?s=digital-text&ie=UTF8&qid=1509011501&sr=1-1&keywords=Tim+severin+crusader Dunno if you know Tim, but his books are great as he re-enacts historic achievements. In Crusader, he buys a big knight size horse as he follows the footsteps of 11th century crusaders from Belgium to Jerusalem on horseback Edited October 26, 2017 by Fiach Thanks for shopping Pawn-O-Matic! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aluminiumtrioxid Posted October 26, 2017 Share Posted October 26, 2017 That looks cool, is there much art work? Dunno if I should get it for Kindle or a real book. No pictures at all. "Lulz is not the highest aspiration of art and mankind, no matter what the Encyclopedia Dramatica says." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fiach Posted October 26, 2017 Share Posted October 26, 2017 That looks cool, is there much art work? Dunno if I should get it for Kindle or a real book. No pictures at all. Ok thanks for the heads up. Thanks for shopping Pawn-O-Matic! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guard Dog Posted October 31, 2017 Share Posted October 31, 2017 I read this last night. I started web I got home and finished around 3 AM. It was pretty good. Not deep or earth chattering but certainly entertaining. 1 "While it is true you learn with age, the down side is what you often learn is what a damn fool you were before" Thomas Sowell Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fiach Posted October 31, 2017 Share Posted October 31, 2017 I read this last night. I started web I got home and finished around 3 AM. It was pretty good. Not deep or earth chattering but certainly entertaining. I loved that book, not scary but really creepy I thought! Did you read Fireman? If no it's worth checking out, I didn't really like Horns though. Thanks for shopping Pawn-O-Matic! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ShadySands Posted October 31, 2017 Share Posted October 31, 2017 I read this last night. I started web I got home and finished around 3 AM. It was pretty good. Not deep or earth chattering but certainly entertaining. Hey! Wait! I've got a new complaint 2 Free games updated 3/4/21 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guard Dog Posted October 31, 2017 Share Posted October 31, 2017 I read this last night. I started web I got home and finished around 3 AM. It was pretty good. Not deep or earth chattering but certainly entertaining. No beyond this one book I'm not familiar with Joe Hill. I've been reading a lot of history the past few books and wanted a change of pace. The library had a selection of books for Halloween and I thought this looked interesting. "While it is true you learn with age, the down side is what you often learn is what a damn fool you were before" Thomas Sowell Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aluminiumtrioxid Posted October 31, 2017 Share Posted October 31, 2017 Isn't he the Locke & Key guy? Stephen King's son? "Lulz is not the highest aspiration of art and mankind, no matter what the Encyclopedia Dramatica says." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ShadySands Posted October 31, 2017 Share Posted October 31, 2017 Yep, one and the same Free games updated 3/4/21 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SonicMage117 Posted November 5, 2017 Share Posted November 5, 2017 Reboot: Afterlife https://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/B071WF4414/ref=mp_s_a_1_7?ie=UTF8&qid=1509925939&sr=8-7&pi=AC_SX236_SY340_QL65&keywords=reboot+book&dpPl=1&dpID=514kRyBtT-L&ref=plSrch Just what do you think you're doing?! You dare to come between me and my prey? Is it a habit of yours to scurry about, getting in the way and causing bother? What are you still bothering me for? I'm a Knight. I'm not interested in your childish games. I need my rest. Begone! Lest I draw my nail... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Raithe Posted November 9, 2017 Author Share Posted November 9, 2017 As there might be a few people making valiant attempts at National Novel Writing Month, here's a bit from author Jonathan Moeller's blog: In honor of National Novel Writing Month, today I shall debunk some bad writing advice! Recently I read an article about a bestselling writer who is having trouble finishing the third book in his trilogy. This quote jumped out to me: ‘The best advice he ever received…was from the writer who ran the workshop he attended after he won that first short-story contest: “It’s late once, but it’s bad forever.”’ That is not good advice. That is terrible advice! To be blunt, that’s not advice, that a pre-rationalization for procrastination. Or a rationalization for indulging in self-doubt, which for writers is an especially self-destructive quality. (A writer’s best method of dealing with self-doubt is to lock it in the cellar and beat it with a pillowcase full of doorknobs until it stops whining.) In fact, this is an actual cognitive error, a formal logical fallacy called the Nirvana Fallacy. It is, quite literally, a form of erroneous thinking. A better piece of advice is “don’t let the perfect be the enemy of the possible.” Perfection is simply not possible in this world. This is especially true of fiction, which is by its very nature subjective and not subject to quantifiable analysis. What makes a good bridge? It doesn’t fall into the river. That’s quantifiable. What makes a good book? Everyone has their own answers, and none of them are quantifiable. A lot of writers think that they can write a perfect book that everyone will like, but there’s no such thing. Better instead to write the sort of book that you would like, rather than trying to create something perfect. So, instead of tinkering endlessly with your book to try and make it better, finish it and the write another one! You’ll learn more by finishing it than by puttering with it and rewriting it over and over in an effort to achieve nonexistent perfection. And once it’s done, you’ll write another book, and then another, and you’ll learn much than you ever will if you spend five years trying to polish your first book to perfection. Steve Jobs was by all accounts a irascible perfectionist, but he knew that the Nirvana Fallacy was a mistake. So we’ll let him have the last word here: “Real artists ship.” "Cuius testiculos habeas, habeas cardia et cerebellum." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
the_dog_days Posted November 9, 2017 Share Posted November 9, 2017 ^Kevin J. Anderson wrote a book in the time it took me to read a blog post about productivity. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
the_dog_days Posted November 9, 2017 Share Posted November 9, 2017 And I'm reasonably certain he's talking about Patrick Rothfuss. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ShadySands Posted November 9, 2017 Share Posted November 9, 2017 (edited) Just finished the first 32 chapters of Oathbringer by Sanderson Can't wait until the full release next week Edited November 9, 2017 by ShadySands 1 Free games updated 3/4/21 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
the_dog_days Posted November 9, 2017 Share Posted November 9, 2017 I'm not a big Sanderson fan. It's his sense of humor. Just not for me. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guard Dog Posted November 19, 2017 Share Posted November 19, 2017 Just finished these two: No reading this: "While it is true you learn with age, the down side is what you often learn is what a damn fool you were before" Thomas Sowell Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guard Dog Posted November 26, 2017 Share Posted November 26, 2017 Now reading this. "While it is true you learn with age, the down side is what you often learn is what a damn fool you were before" Thomas Sowell Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HoonDing Posted November 26, 2017 Share Posted November 26, 2017 I don't know what to think about Brandon Sanderson. He's like a modern day David Eddings with a flavour of Grimdark. The ending of the words is ALMSIVI. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
the_dog_days Posted November 27, 2017 Share Posted November 27, 2017 I don't know what to think about Brandon Sanderson. He's like a modern day David Eddings with a flavour of Grimdark. Whaaaa? Grimdark is the last thing I think of when Brandon Sanderson is brought up. Honestly, he's too goofy for me (and I don't like grimdark). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GhostofAnakin Posted December 1, 2017 Share Posted December 1, 2017 I started reading Robin Hobbs' Liveship Traders series. I remembered what it was that bothered me so much about her writing. 1-She writes walls and walls of text. Too often, for my own tastes, it's not broken up by dialogue or even smaller descriptions. She'll write page after page of just giant paragraphs of description or inner thoughts. As someone who enjoys the ability to kind of read a few pages and then put the book down, hers make it near impossible to do this as her walls of unbroken text go on and on. 2-In order to push plots along, she constantly has the characters act in the most idiotic way possible, and do the most obvious things. One part in question at the point I'm at: Two characters go on at length to discuss to the third character how important it is to NOT OPEN THE BOX. DO NOT OPEN THE BOX. So guess what happens? The third character has no problem getting a hold of the box and opens it. Hobbs does this too often in her books in order to push a plot along, and it's annoying as a reader. Unfortunately for me, I'm a bit of a completionist so I'll slog through the rest of the novel, but right now I just want to toss it aside. 1 "Console exclusive is such a harsh word." - Darque"Console exclusive is two words Darque." - Nartwak (in response to Darque's observation) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Raithe Posted December 1, 2017 Author Share Posted December 1, 2017 3 "Cuius testiculos habeas, habeas cardia et cerebellum." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sarex Posted December 1, 2017 Share Posted December 1, 2017 Read Oathbringer, had fun. I'll have to give Mistborn another go one of these days. 1 "because they filled mommy with enough mythic power to become a demi-god" - KP Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guard Dog Posted December 3, 2017 Share Posted December 3, 2017 Note to self... don't read Star Wars books. Now reading this: 2 "While it is true you learn with age, the down side is what you often learn is what a damn fool you were before" Thomas Sowell Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fiach Posted December 3, 2017 Share Posted December 3, 2017 (edited) Currently reading The Haj by Leon Uris. https://www.amazon.com/Haj-Leon-Uris-ebook/dp/B01B0UYPOK/ref=la_B000APTIWQ_1_5?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1512070927&sr=1-5 Not alot of his books are available as ebooks unfortunately, I would like to recommend another book by this author, called Trinity, not available as an ebook though, but if you have any interest in Ireland, it's a novel spanning over 100 years of Irish history, from the famine in 1840s to the Easter Rising 1916, a truly astounding book. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trinity_(novel) Edited December 3, 2017 by Fiach Thanks for shopping Pawn-O-Matic! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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