11-03-2024, 07:57 PM | #3166 |
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Don't you hate when an ongoing series is taken over by another author, and it is nothing like the original authors writing.
Lee Childs and the Jack Reacher series is my disappointment. The last book I read was The Secret and Reacher comes across as a secondary character. Not written in usual first person. There is no internal dialogue. Reacher does not make any meaningful appearance until 70 pages in. It was all pretty dry. |
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Actually, today, I was cataloging a few Amazon freebies into Calibre, and I went to fetch a description for one, which had the note that every book in the series ended on a cliffhanger. Um, NOPE! I hit delete, and went and removed it from my Amazon library. You want my money, you write a good story that has an actual ending, then let me decide if I want to read further of your stories. But try to force it with the cliffhanger ploy, I'm outta there. I do like the Inspector Gamache series, but I usually get them from my library, and she doesn't do it often, so I'll give Louise Penny a pass if it's a once off. Now that I realize she's got a new one out, I need to go visit Libby, pronto! |
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11-04-2024, 11:29 AM | #3168 |
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Yeah. I was lucky in that I'd requested to be notified when my library got copies, then place a hold as soon as I could and got a skip-the-wait 7 day loan!
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Titles of British books that are dumbed down or ramped up for the American market.
I just finished one, the excellent Why Homer Matters by Adam Nicolson. Except that the original title was The Mighty Dead, so much more evocative and taken from a Keats' sonnet when Keats is a hook for Nicolson's exegesis. Obviously the brains thought that Keats would be lost on the dumb Yanks. And I've just started one, Mary Beard's The Fires of Vesuvius. About the destruction of Pompeii in AD 79 when Vesuvius erupted, amirite? Except that it's about Pompeii before Vesuvius erupted, as the original title, Pompeii: The Life of a Roman Town indicates. But clearly they felt they had to make it more exciting for the yokels over here even if by doing so they misrepresented what the book was about. |
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One UK historian I like watching on TV when I can is Dan Jones. The last documentary of his I watched was about The Terracotta Warriors. |
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I had one Star Trek book bought direct from Simon & Schuster. The eBook did not work properly. I was unable to find where to return it for a refund. Fortunately I was able to dive into the code and fix the problem. The problem was the CSS was a right mess. I was able to fix it and get the eBook to then be readable.
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Reading brandon sanderson stormlight archive im finding the chapters out of order but if i uninstall and reinstall it will fix itself. its annoying.
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But why is this mess on their site and not from the shops or library?
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