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Old 01-13-2025, 07:35 PM   #3346
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Orbital? One of the more enjoyable books I've read where absolutely nothing happens.
Oh, I'm enjoying it, but it makes the very basic errors even more irritating.
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Old 01-14-2025, 10:25 AM   #3347
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Oh, I'm enjoying it, but it makes the very basic errors even more irritating.
Honestly, I read it almost as a long form bit of blank verse and therefore did not expect correct grammar.
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Old 01-14-2025, 11:06 AM   #3348
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Honestly, I read it almost as a long form bit of blank verse and therefore did not expect correct grammar.
To me it had a kind of dream-like quality.
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Old 01-14-2025, 06:41 PM   #3349
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Honestly, I read it almost as a long form bit of blank verse and therefore did not expect correct grammar.
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To me it had a kind of dream-like quality.
I can and do relate to these, but grammatical errors when I see them shriek and take me out of what I'm reading. And since they serve no purpose, why? They didn't come across as purposeful or even vernacular specific to a character, just as lazy and ignorant. I don't see blank verse as antithetical to correct grammar. Similarly, errors of diction as in using "hone" when "home" would have been correct draw attention to themselves and interrupt the flow. And that one really is ignorant, no excuses.

I'm still enjoying this, very much indeed, but I wish editing didn't tend to exist in the breach these days.
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Old 01-17-2025, 06:22 AM   #3350
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Thanks for the recommendation, even though I wasn't asking for it. (That's the beauty of Mobileread: Discovering books and authors you didn't even know you wanted!)

Picked up Orbital today. Will start it when I finish the Javier Marias book I'm reading.
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Old 01-18-2025, 07:10 PM   #3351
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I have more books to read than I have time for. I am almost done with The Stormlight Archive (50% in book 5) then in feb/march/april I want to read as many normal sized stand alone books as I can before I start the other series I want to read. May-December I want to read Mistborn series, Throne of glass, ACOTAR, Shadow of What Was Lost series
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Old 01-19-2025, 12:06 AM   #3352
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When a free book in a series is only available in PDF. But the ones you pay for are available in ePub.
Well, if you don't like the pdf, ask for a refund.
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Old 01-22-2025, 07:03 AM   #3353
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I've started reading the Sweetpea series of books ("Bridget Jones's Diary meets Dexter") and apparently the author is a lecturer in creative writing at Bath Spa University. Her misuse of commas in sentences is pretty jarring sometimes and I don't think it's supposed to be sweetpea's diary entries which you might imagine would be informal.

I hereby apologise to @Issybird for not taking her criticisms more seriously - even in informal writing stuff like this can be annoying.
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Old 01-28-2025, 12:42 PM   #3354
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Rant: Very very inaccurate back cover summaries. WTF?
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Old 01-28-2025, 01:15 PM   #3355
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Rant: Very very inaccurate back cover summaries. WTF?
I'm seeing more light novels follow that stupid Japanese trend of putting the entire novel description into the title, so perhaps they then ran out of things to put on the back summary.
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Old 01-28-2025, 01:20 PM   #3356
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What I find annoying are books where under the chapter number is a small blurb giving away what the chapter is about.
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Old 01-28-2025, 01:21 PM   #3357
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I'm seeing more light novels follow that stupid Japanese trend of putting the entire novel description into the title, so perhaps they then ran out of things to put on the back summary.
Any examples of books in English that have this type of silly title? Thanks.
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Any examples of books in English that have this type of silly title? Thanks.
Just look on kindle subtitles, lol.
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Most of Kindle now.
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