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$6.99 for a blank Kindle document, anyone? At least the reviews are funny.

This happened quite a few years ago, but I thought it would be an interesting thing to share for this community, especially since some come here for the lulz, and this is legit trolling IRL. I was reading this entry to John Scalzi's blog which I recommend you read for some context. In short, PublishAmerica was being accused of being a vanity ( Read more... )

So, I read this book:


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A month ago I received an Advance Reader's Copy of a book that I really didn't enjoy. I wrote a review of it on GoodReads which I'll post here in its entirety :

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I've loved the Sevenwaters novels by Juliet Marillier since early adolescence when I discovered them. It's been ten years (more or less) so it's hard to say if I'd love the early ones as much. Maybe my perspective has changed, or maybe the books have actually declined in quality, but as an adult my response to the books has certainly changed. Some ( Read more... )

Hello, I'm newish to this community. I was a member a while ago under another account and recently re-joined Livejournal ( Read more... )

I imagine that a lot of you already heard about I am Number Four and James Frey, but just in case you didn't...

I would respond to it, but The Sparkle Project does a much better job of that than I ever could.

Needless to say, I will be loudly and obnoxiously boycotting both the book and the movie.

Today on my Twitter feed, a lady I follow highly recommended a book, Highborn by Yvonne Navarro.  I seriously considered unfollowing her over that one.

So there are things I love/like about this book.  While it is a Did Not Finish as well as a fail, it is not a total fail by any means.  I absolutely love the concept of this book.  There's this angel ( Read more... )

so....Christopher Bennett ( Read more... )