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Are we talking about the same thing? I'm not complaining about the feature that lets you explore the contents of a book. I'm complaining about a search engine that displays off-topic titles you don't want simply because they contain the words you typed into the search field somewhere in their...

Anyone have any thoughts on the original posting? I'm still wondering why film goers write more intelligent reviews than Amazon readers do. I had one thought. I like independent films. Maybe independent film-goers are a different breed from the ones who watch Dumb and Dumber (with the...

I can't imagine why your reviews aren't being posted. It takes a couple of days while they're reviewed for vulgarity and so forth, but they usually show up eventually. I only had one instance where a review didn't post, and I don't know what happened. So I know it CAN happen, but I don't know...

I think you miss things the first go-around. The first reading is for me to be told a story. The second reading is to savor the words. Oftentimes the first reading goes so quickly I miss things, and the second reading gives me insights I wouldn't have had otherwise. If a book is great, you see...

I just signed up for Netflix, so I've been trolling through movie reviews while I select movies to place on my queue. For years I've occasionally popped in at www.imdb.com (Internet Movie Database) to identify characters in films I recognize but can't put a name to. That site contains movie...

I think the feature that irritates me the most about Amazon.com is the "search within the book" feature when you enter a keyword. It comes back with a list of quotes from books that have NOTHING to do with the title you're looking for. The only reason they appear is because the books contain the...

How about "The Box Children" by Sharon Wyse. Description: Eleven-year-old Lou Ann Campbell starts a diary on scraps of paper that she hides from her mother in a barrel behind the bunkhouse on her family's Texas wheat farm. Lou Ann's mother has had five miscarriages and Lou Ann has created...

I followed your link to the site, did a search for a book and found that the book page just had a link to Amazon. Plus, the price they quoted was higher than the typical Amazon price.

I read "Gone With the Wind" 11 times before I was 17 years old. Then I was done, and haven't read it since. I pick up "A Tree Grows In Brooklyn" every few years or so.

To Kill a Mockingbird A Tree Grows in Brooklyn Anne Frank: A Diary of a Young Girl

Actually, this has nothing to do with authors but more about the Chicago neighborhood John R. Powers writes about. He lived a block away from me, and across the alley lived actors Michael and Virginia Madsen. Michael Flatley (Lord of the Dance) lived two miles to the west. If you saw that...

I used to play with John R. Powers' little sister when I was a kid. He was just her big brother "Johnnie" as far as I was concerned. Then when he wrote "Last Catholic in America" I found myself reading about all of the neighbors. It was very surreal, the way he made up names for people I could...

This probably doesn't technically qualify as "historical fiction" but it takes place in the 1800s and I'm mentioning it because it was just SO GOOD. "Lonesome Dove" by Larry McMurtry.

You can get Jean Plaidy books on Amazon these days - I believe they're mostly all being reprinted. If you like her books, you may also like "Threads: The Reincarnation of Anne Boleyn" by Nell Gavin, which is historical fiction with a twist. You see the court of Henry VIII, but you view it...

<<And what better way to do that than to start your new novel right now?>> Have you ever written a book? Do you know that you get completely and utterly focused? When I'm writing seriously (which I'm gearing up to do shortly) I can't even read. During the entire six years it took me to...

Great idea. When will I have time to do that while I'm writing a sequel? I know. I'll wait until I'm dumped and no longer under contract with anyone. PS. No, I'm not Guy Gavriel Kay. You can put the pills and the razor back in the cabinet.

I think personal taste is the primary reason people won't like a book. I don't like mysteries, thrillers, Westerns, and romance. If a book contains a car chase, I don't get very far. It doesn't matter how good the book is, I won't necessarily think it's "good." In addition, there are also...

Probably it will. I'm a (anonymous, thank you) published author whose first book was finalist for an award, and has received mostly five-star reviews. (Not a lot of bucks yet, but I get satisfaction out of fan emails.) My agent informs me that I must write a sequel, which I have begun to do...

I think I'd rather be the latter because it's an issue of self-respect. If you're only mildly talented, but have somehow managed to tap into the psyche of a mainstream audience (which admittedly doesn't have a really discriminating palate) you'd probably spend the rest of your life either 1)...

Please stop using a confrontational or derisive or aghast tone, and I will stop misreading your posts and position. I omitted something but the post got your attention, and the underlying issue still remains. If the Morality Police are hunting me down to foist upon me their opinions about...