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One of the reviewers suggests that the author is just pulling everyone's leg. Perhaps that is a possibility, but it seems more likely that the author is just an attention whore without enough foresight to see that he really justs comes off as a clown.

Must have been something like that, she would know better than to keep money from a publisher that she is not legally entitled to keep. I can't wait to see what the publisher's next step will be.

Gladwell has another book coming out in 2013 called "David and Goliath", Malcolm Gladwell writing book on underdogs - Yahoo! News The book trailer is a cartoon version of the David vs. Goliath bible story with no mention of the book contents at all.

Have any of you on goodreads been inundated with requests for reviews from self-pubbed writers?

wow, that's unbelievable. I honestly didn't get it at first, I thought I was just too dumb to follow along with what was going on.

With two endorsements in this thread, it appears as though The Stand is King's best novel to start with.

47 alternate endings to A Farewell to Arms being published: NYT: 47 endings to Hemingway book to be released - The New York Times - TODAY.com

They are fairly certain they found the Higgs now: "It's a boson:" Higgs quest bears new particle - Yahoo! News So far there's only about 576 comments on the Yahoo story. A story about Kim Kardashian's butt would have 57,000 by now.

The episode of the Andy Griffith show that stuck with me through all these years was one where Andy was teaching his son Opie how to handle a bully. Andy told him to tear into the bully "like a windmill in a tornado", in his relaxed Sheriff Andy Taylor way. Would any television show today dare...

This makes the second military/political thriller I've read recently that was a thinly disguised right-wing diatribe against the weak and liberal left. However, it's not a bad book. The plot revolves around an ex-Navy SEAL, (is everybody an ex-Navy SEAL now?), now in the CIA chasing down Islamic...

Apparently Raymond doesn't read crime novels. If he had he would have known that this publicity stunt never would have worked. Mont. authorities say hitchhiker shot himself - Yahoo! News

Hasn't been released yet, here's a little pre-release publicity: Hitchhiker writing 'The Kindness of America' memoir shot by motorist in Montana - U.S. News

Crap. :sad:

Funny message in the comments section:

CBS put up a little photo essay of Norman Mailer today: Literary Conscience and Provocateur Pictures - CBS News He stabbed his wife, he headbutted Gore Vidal. If he were alive today he could host a reality show about writers gone wild.

How long does it take to print a book? Could a customer order an OOP book and have it in his hands in ten minutes? The story says that the book is indistiguishable from books from a professional printer, so that implies it prints glossy color covers too. If my local bookstore had it, I would use...

This book was a best seller back in 1983: Amazon.com: Nam: The Vietnam War in the Words of the Men and Women Who Fought There (9780425101445): Mark Baker: Books It's interviews with soldiers who were there. I found it on a paperback book rack in a Kmart in Middlesboro, Kentucky 29 years ago, so...

Oh. My. God. :lol:

The article mentions attending writer workshops. I've always wondered if best selling or award winning authors made use of writer workshops? I've never heard any of them mention it.

Since I had never heard of the prize, I wasn't upset at it's withdraw. Until I read this: