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I'm with Univerze. If I thought a book could be read only for the plot, then I wouldn't be rereading the Wheel of time for the 4th (?) time. I loved the children's version I had when I was 9ish. I have to get the unabridged version someday soon... but like I said elsewhere, I have never seen this book in a bookshop. (!)

@Noll, that's the one Giulia described as ugly Arthur looks like a hobbit :| lol Good. It's on my TBR too, but for later this year. I've read only the first book so... @Kell: Yes... this place is a conspiracy I tell you.

lol I remember one but I can't recall the writer's name or even the book's title. It was by a woman though. Something about the book being dedicated to her daughter who put down the Lord Of The Rings to read the first draft.

Do you read the dedications in a book? I always do, because I love the dedications in my own books. They're really important to me, like the plot itself. And dedications often speak the most about the character of a writer. A book without a dedication is a love letter without a recepient. As Stephen King himself quotes, all books are letters written to one person. So have you come across any interesting dedications? I have a few which are widely quoted on the other book forums I've lurked around for years. These are from Tad Williams's Otherland series: I also remember liking the dedications in Harry Potter And The Deathy Hallows a lot too. And the one in The Lion, The Witch And The Wardrobe. Call me arrogant but I kinda like my dedications the best . Mostly because to each writer, his/her own feelings reflect in the book dedications a lot.

I think you can find Marco Polo's log in some form... or his own book. For the middle east there is a particularily good book.... Argh I can't remember which! Alberuni's India? Something of the sort... lol And welcome to BCF. We supply fun, freedom of speech, idiotic modes of passing the time, justifications for being a book worm and apparently the mods are in charge of dishing out Jaffa cakes.

Cat!!! Cats are fun How can you read with one around?!

You a fan of Schumie I suppose? I should introduce you to my friend. He worships him :| I'd like to know what you feel about Rebecca - Daphne du Maurier I've seen this book on the bookshelf at my favorite shop a lot and would love an opinion. Jodi Picoult huh? Isn't someone a huge fan of hers on this forum? I remember seeing the bookshelf picture.... come out you.

Ok, I'll give King one more try. Cujo failed my expectations and the moment I learned that I lost interest in it. I didn't really think his attempts to make it seem like worked for me. It never got a drop of sweat from me. So I want to know if there's a King book that should make my spine tremble. Books have made me cry. They've made me laugh. They've made me expectant and whoop whenever I needed to. But ever since my last Goosebumps book since I was 12 no book has ever made me scared. Period.

I've always wanted to read this book!!! I need to be reminded the next time I go to the shop.

lol I do that with certain words. Happens daily. Hard to avoid it sometimes. Especially when writing about 1000 words a day. Yesterday the word was "eerie".

I'm guessing it'd be pointless to say The Time Traveller's Wife achieves the time jumping, in the very literal sense, quite well?

I sort of envy people who can read a lot of nonfiction. I'm afraid my head is in the clouds far too much to enjoy nonfiction.

I hardly remember A Curious Incident, but I read the Reader's Digest version of it.... But I remember liking it.

True. I wrote my first story when I was seven. Or six, I think.

I was actually considering starting a thread to ask which is King's scariest work. But then again, I can just ask you

It just feels odd, that's all. I mean some authors are against movies and stuff. What would happen if JD Salinger's family decides to allow people to write a biography about him?!

Oddly enough, I used to love Stine's horror books back in the day but now I find horror books don't work. I didn't even shudder while reading Cujo

At age 11? Heck, that should still be the peak of the complements you can expect. After all, we're almost near the age of the writers we wish to be like, atleast the age at which they started. 11? That's absymal.

haha reminds me of my short-lived loved for RL Stein's books.

I think they're currently so 75 years after the writer's death. That' makes sense. Yet seems unfair when certain heirs just choose to disobey the author's decision and do stuff like sign movie rights or write sequels just to milk the series.

Did I say hello? Guess not. HELLO! lol

Ah sleep. It's like a husband-beating wife who also cooks well. Can't live with her, can't find the strength to read without her.

I've always wondered whether it'd be possible to write my books off as under the public domain and therefore uploadable to Project Gutenburg in my will. OK So I'm only 22 and unpublished. Yet. Many books are in the hands of the corporates. Classics of fiction that should be free are being released with various connotations and notes and for that we end up paying a lot. But while some publishers charge a very little amount (Wordsworth) for the books, others (Penguin) charge absymal amounts for books without living authors. I just can't understand the logic that'd say that there intellectual property of a father should pass on to the children either. Unless of course, said child is milking the work for what it's worth in the manner of sequels. *cough*Christopher*cough*Tolkien*cough*. Same goes for music and art. Why should we pay bigshot companies for the classics that no one is getting any royalties for? Think about it, as a writer, the first reason to write should be to be read. And charging money for it only comes so that the writer will be able to write more. (Don't go looking at Rowling, she doesn't count till she releases more books.) If the writer didn't need the money, then the books should be free! If there is a way to make my books free post my death I will. Of course companies should still be allowed to print the books and sell them, we wouldn't have leather bound books if left to ourselves. (gasp! Yes Giulia, I know you're almost fainting at the thought) But if some people enjoy reading the ebooks, then they should be allowed to. Or to print it and get it bound themselves. I hope all this just doesn't seem like immature ramblings though.

haha Welcome. Trust me. You'll hate this place for making you buy more books :|