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Or read her blog, her wall posts, etc. It's all about cyber-stalking now.

On Writing Well, Zinsser.

Kurt Vonnegut:

Brothers Karamazov, chapters 48 and 23 -- Leo "Stephen King" Tolstoy.

War and Peace -- Anne Rice. Moby Dick -- Arthur C. Clarke. Wuthering Heights -- James Fenimore Cooper.

When you're done reading, we'll talk.

Britney who? I give Gag Lady--er, I mean Lady Gaga two years.

Scam or not, it says I write like Raymond Chandler. Woo hoo! A sample from Huck Finn said it was like Mark Twain, but a sample from Pudd'n Head Wilson said it was like James Joyce.

*raises hand* Wasabi abuser here. *lowers hand* Never drinks coffee.

*raises hand* Subvocalizer here. But good prose should be "heard" one way or another. Reading out loud is even better. My housemate and I have been reading out loud to each other almost every night for about three years. It's helped slow down the pace of our lives, not just of our reading...

This is why books are hard and flat. But do use one with a glossy cover. It's easier to wipe off.

Better than A Biblical Accounting. That would just be scary.

My revenge fantasies for bad adaptation are usually directed at Disney for #3, Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. But we can't stop at nine. We need to add the Scarlet Letter with Demi Moore. I mean really need to.

The burgundy one looks like a Bible, and the green one looks like an accounting book. What kind of book is this going to cover?

*checks pulse* *takes temperature* *holds a mirror close to see if she's breathing* Nope--not dead yet. "...the fallacy...that popular fiction tends to sell better than literary fiction...." He's out of his mind. He uses an example of a literary novel selling 100,000 copies...

The History of the Hobbit, 2 vols., John Rateliff. What do you do when you've read The Hobbit three times and you still want more? Read the drafts!

It's an awesome novel. I think I'll re-read it tonight. Where are you supposed to be getting your concept of American culture for relating to the novel?

American Book Prices Current is definitive. https://www.bookpricescurrent.com

I think I may have perpetrated an example of this in my own writing, but in reverse. One of my characters surveys an empty field in winter. "No breeze whispered over the snow. No dogs barked in the distance." *rushes off to revise immediately*

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