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Well, so much for the point of this is not a review. Heck, I didn't even mention the name of the book. Sigh.

I had hoped it would be the starting point of a discussion of books that retell famous stories or events or the idea of story teller verses author and how they are different. Ah, well.

Yea, authors are authors, be they traditional publisher or indie. I tend to think of this sort of author as a mid-tier author. Looking at my book case, it's loaded with paper backs by authors like this - Rick Shelley, Michael Stackpole. ( as a note, once I buy the ebook for a book I have in paper, I tend to take the paper book and put it in a plastic storage bin. It's probably time to get a couple more bins and purge my book case again. I'm probably down to less than 500 books that I haven't replaced. The only books that I actually throw out are old computer books that have no real use anymore. I did donate a bunch of hard backs to a local library).

I'm not particularly cost sensitive when it comes to buying books as in I don't really have a budget that I try to keep under. If I see a book of interest I buy it. On the flip side, I'm a lot more likely to buy a book by an unknown author that looks interesting, but doesn't reach the "Wow, I have to buy this" level if it's only $4 than I am if it's $20. Of course, I do tend to not waste a lot of time trying to grind through a book that I don't find interesting. I can make more money, I can't make more time.