http://review-group.forumotion.com/book-discussion-f6/-t1.htm Anything to do with published works. Sat, 20 Jun 2009 20:00:43 GMT 10 [url=http://writingforum.smfforfree.com/index.php][img]http://i540.photobucket.com/albums/ http://review-group.forumotion.com/book-discussion-f6/-t1.htm http://review-group.forumotion.com/book-discussion-f6/what-books-on-writing-do-you-have-t286.htm Garmar I thought I would make a list of all of my writing related texts to share with you guys. I’m certain I have some more gathering dust around the house. Textbooks: A Collection of Readings for Writers: Harry and Shaw. An Approach to Literature: Brooks, Purser, and Warren. Close Imagining: An Introduction to Literature: De Mott. Language, Form and Idea: Strandness, Hackett, and Crosby. Literature for Composition: Barnet, Berman, Burto, Cain, and Stubbs. Literature for Writing: ... Book Discussion Sat, 20 Jun 2009 20:00:43 GMT http://review-group.forumotion.com/book-discussion-f6/what-books-on-writing-do-you-have-t286.htm#3772 http://review-group.forumotion.com/book-discussion-f6/what-books-on-writing-do-you-have-t286.htm http://review-group.forumotion.com/book-discussion-f6/marathon-reading-session-t41.htm NaClmine Let's see, in the past three weeks I read The Sun Also Rises by Hemingway, and the following list by Louis L'Amour: The Quick and the Dead (excellent!) The Man From Broken Hills (fair) Reilly's Luck (very good) Trailing West (fair) Last of the Breed (boring) The Man Called Noon (excellent) Louis L'Amour was the most prolific writer of old west stories set in the U.S. His stories are easy reading, fast paced with simple plots . . . usually man versus man with a touch of man ... Book Discussion Tue, 24 Feb 2009 08:45:37 GMT http://review-group.forumotion.com/book-discussion-f6/marathon-reading-session-t41.htm#205 http://review-group.forumotion.com/book-discussion-f6/marathon-reading-session-t41.htm http://review-group.forumotion.com/book-discussion-f6/most-boring-book-ever-read-t84.htm ebyss
I will have to say THE OLD MAN AND THE SEA.
I had to read it in high school for class and I didn't think the hundred pages was ever going to end. Do not get me wrong, Ernest Hemingway is a brilliant author, but that book was NOT my cup of tea. I do like other works from him, though.]]> Book Discussion Thu, 05 Mar 2009 23:38:56 GMT http://review-group.forumotion.com/book-discussion-f6/most-boring-book-ever-read-t84.htm#811 http://review-group.forumotion.com/book-discussion-f6/most-boring-book-ever-read-t84.htm http://review-group.forumotion.com/book-discussion-f6/stephen-king-t76.htm Garmar I was a number one fan (in Kingspeak) for over two decades. His newer work--like since he finished the Dark Tower series--have been self-serving crap and trunk novels imo. I'm having a rough time reading his latest short story collection and I love all of the ones preceding it. So, what the hell is up with this guy? Surely he has to know he's reached the end of his arc. He can't possibly be running out of dough... Or have I just changed as a reader? Opinions? Book Discussion Wed, 04 Mar 2009 17:16:03 GMT http://review-group.forumotion.com/book-discussion-f6/stephen-king-t76.htm#719 http://review-group.forumotion.com/book-discussion-f6/stephen-king-t76.htm http://review-group.forumotion.com/book-discussion-f6/the-very-first-book-t222.htm Anonymous I still have the very first science fiction book I ever read. Not just a copy of it, but the very same copy that was bought for me in either first or second grade. Here it is: The book actually consists of two stories. If you flip the book over, the other story reads in the other direction, so that when you come to the last page of either side you are confronted with the last page of the other story upside down. I don't know if they still do this in grade school, but back ... Book Discussion Tue, 19 May 2009 15:34:47 GMT http://review-group.forumotion.com/book-discussion-f6/the-very-first-book-t222.htm#2896 http://review-group.forumotion.com/book-discussion-f6/the-very-first-book-t222.htm http://review-group.forumotion.com/book-discussion-f6/china-mieville-perdido-street-station-t166.htm Anonymous Is Fantasy and Science Fiction dead? Is there a salvation in sight? Is Weird Fiction the new Fantasy and Science Fiction? Weird Fiction. My new favorite genre. China Mieville is, for me, the brightest star in this new realm. Perdido Street Station, the first in a trilogy by Mieville, was a difficult book for me to get into. It violated everything I was expecting. It gave me a place which seemed real enough in its seedy, dirty waterlogged antiquity: New Crobuzon. Then it gave me bizarre ... Book Discussion Tue, 07 Apr 2009 20:05:58 GMT http://review-group.forumotion.com/book-discussion-f6/china-mieville-perdido-street-station-t166.htm#1991 http://review-group.forumotion.com/book-discussion-f6/china-mieville-perdido-street-station-t166.htm http://review-group.forumotion.com/book-discussion-f6/anne-rice-t73.htm MC I was under the impression that Anne Rice was one of the greats that everyone loved to read, so I picked up one of her books from a used book store. Maybe it's just the constant interruptions of my daily life, but I'm having a really hard time getting into it. Does anyone have some words of encouragement or an argument in the defense of Anne Rice to help me keep going through this book? It's Queen of the Damned...yes I realize it's the 3rd in a series. Tell me you loved it and it ... Book Discussion Tue, 03 Mar 2009 16:25:03 GMT http://review-group.forumotion.com/book-discussion-f6/anne-rice-t73.htm#687 http://review-group.forumotion.com/book-discussion-f6/anne-rice-t73.htm http://review-group.forumotion.com/book-discussion-f6/american-gods-by-neil-gaiman-t13.htm Garmar Around page 120 my interest started to wane. It’s been a page here and there for days now. I’m at 140 something now with about 300 to go. So, is it worth it? I can read 300 pages in about four, 1 hour sessions, if I’m interested. If I’m not, well… And I find his writing style very awkward. At first it seemed fresh, but that is rubbing off to the point of being annoying. Example: The seemingly irrelevant interludes between chapters; do they make sense at the end, or are ... Book Discussion Wed, 11 Feb 2009 07:36:54 GMT http://review-group.forumotion.com/book-discussion-f6/american-gods-by-neil-gaiman-t13.htm#32 http://review-group.forumotion.com/book-discussion-f6/american-gods-by-neil-gaiman-t13.htm