All the Literature and Reading Stuff...

[aluminiumtrioxid]

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.

[Fiach]

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

[aluminiumtrioxid]

 

That looks cool, is there much art work? Dunno if I should get it for Kindle or a real book.

 

 

No pictures at all.

[Fiach]

 

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.

[Guard Dog]

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.

 

[Fiach]

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.

[ShadySands]

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

[Guard Dog]

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.

[aluminiumtrioxid]

Isn't he the Locke & Key guy? Stephen King's son?

[ShadySands]

Yep, one and the same

[SonicMage117]

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

[Raithe]

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.”

[the_dog_days]

^Kevin J. Anderson wrote a book in the time it took me to read a blog post about productivity.

[the_dog_days]

And I'm reasonably certain he's talking about Patrick Rothfuss.

[ShadySands]

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

[the_dog_days]

I'm not a big Sanderson fan. It's his sense of humor. Just not for me.

[Guard Dog]

Just finished these two:

 

  

 

 

No reading this:

 

  

[Guard Dog]

 

Now reading this. 

[HoonDing]

I don't know what to think about Brandon Sanderson. He's like a modern day David Eddings with a flavour of Grimdark.

[the_dog_days]

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).

[GhostofAnakin]

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.

[Raithe]

[Sarex]

Read Oathbringer, had fun. I'll have to give Mistborn another go one of these days.

[Guard Dog]

Note to self... don't read Star Wars books. 

 

Now reading this:

 

[Fiach]

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