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Fellraven
19 yrs ago
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I hate to be a wet blanket (who, me?) but in browsing through members it's all too obvious that *huge* numbers of members are members in no more than name. They've not registered, released or found a single book. They ar…
Fellraven
19 yrs ago
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Editing would be great, though I think one thing which would benefit the site immensely is that of would be sorting out all the geographical anomalies which have crept in. The ones you find when browsing "People" where m…
Fellraven
19 yrs ago
I wouldn't call The Hound of the Baskervilles "literary. It has a plot but not much else since it, like the other Sherlock Holmes stories, is essentially a jolly good wheeze and an vehicle (as you put it) for Cona…
Fellraven
19 yrs ago
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No, I think you have misunderstood and are confusing "literary" and "literature".
Non-literary fiction falls into one or more of a number of recognised genres such as horror, mystery, thriller, romance etc and is dri…
Fellraven
19 yrs ago
"Commercial" fiction is essentially that which the publisher hopes will hit the best seller list or at least sell in large quantities. The publishers of King and Grisham expect those writer's works to sell hundred…
Fellraven
19 yrs ago
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Publishers don't send out consignments of books labelled "literary fiction" and "popular fiction" because they don't need to. The clue is there in the imprint under which the book is published, or in the case of smaller …
Fellraven
19 yrs ago
What are these "good drugs" you are going to try to give up?
If you have an infection in the tooth (and they wouldn't have given you penicillin unless you do) you *must* keep taking the antibiotic you've been given *…
Fellraven
19 yrs ago
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Slaughter is derived from an old word meaning "muddy place" because the river which runs through the two villages floods frequently.
Fellraven
19 yrs ago
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http://www.brainyencyclopedia.com/encyclopedia/l/li/list_of_interesting_or_unusual_place_names.html
I admit to being partial to Lord Hereford's Knob, which I have in fact walked upon.
Fellraven
19 yrs ago
I don't regard the Bible itself as suitable reading for anyone under 18 and then it should only be sold in sealed wrappers.
It's completely depraved, what with its content of murder, misogyny, incest, slavery, genoci…
Fellraven
19 yrs ago
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.....it's the publishers who categorise books in this way, and they clearly do so because it serves a purpose or fulfils a need for both them and for readers. Why not phone a couple up and ask them why they do it?
Lit…
Fellraven
19 yrs ago
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Basically the ISBN tends to change when the book concerned is being published in different territories by different publishers.
For example, a book originally published in the UK will have a UK publisher's ISBN numbe…
Fellraven
19 yrs ago
You are of course entitled to your opinion. And I am entitled to disagree with it.
Differences of viewpoint are what makes the world an interesting place.
Fellraven
19 yrs ago
You are of course entitled to your opinion. And I am entitled to disagree with it.
Fellraven
19 yrs ago
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Literary fiction, as defined by publishers, is basically non-genre fiction which is driven more by ideas and character-development rather than purely plot.
"Horror", "thriller", "fantasy", "romance" are fiction genres…
Fellraven
19 yrs ago
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Fellraven
19 yrs ago
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I'd be more than happy to see a category for Literary Fiction (eg Robertson Davies) as distinct from mass-market or popular fiction (Anita Shreeve).
At the risk of being labelled a snob (ooooohhhhh!) I'd say if you do…
Fellraven
19 yrs ago
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I suspect that the problem arises because the term itself is a fairly recent American one to define the traditional British type of whodunnit. The only time I've come across it is on American writers' forms and sites and…
Fellraven
19 yrs ago
Another British writer of children's and young adult fantasy. Tends to write trilogies with a metaphysical good/evil theme. His books have been published in the US but I'm not sure if they're still available there.
ht…
Fellraven
19 yrs ago
This book weighs 10oz or around 280g.
UK 2nd class postage should be no more than 94p including the weight of packaging.
The book can be sent by UK "Printed Papers" airmail rate for under £2 from the UK to Europe.
Fellraven
19 yrs ago
> Mind you..we sometimes DO get books
> returned to us that were 3 or so years
> over due!!!
My father once returned a library book which was 22 years overdue. It went completely AWOL in the house and he quietly i…
Fellraven
19 yrs ago
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I've just finished, and thoroughly enjoyed, the above book. Since it's about travels and a quest I think it should go on a few - hence offering it for a bookring. For reasons I won't go into I'd also say that it's the qu…
Fellraven
19 yrs ago
Anything at all by this chap.
http://www.robinjarvis.com
Fellraven
20 yrs ago
Have the above to trade for anything else by Walters or anything at all by John Grisham. (UK only)
Any offers?
