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Quote:Neil Gaiman's publisher HarperCollins have given him the green light to do a free (as in beer) web-release of one of his books and Neil's running a poll to see which one he should put online -- go vote! They'll leave it up for a month and track sales -- if the experiment succeeds, they'll do more.
http://journal.neilgaiman.com/2008/02/bi...thing.html
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I chose 'Smoke and Mirrors'. I just finished it this weekend and found his stories very enjoyable. I think a short-story collection lends itself well to people who may not have read his prose and may hesitate to commit to an entire novel.
The graphic sex in a couple stories may be off-putting to the casual internet viewer though.
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Quote:However, I think that Harper Collins got this one wrong. They've put the text of American Gods up in a wrapper that loads pictures of the pages from the printed book, one page at a time, with no facility for offline reading. The whole thing runs incredibly slowly and is unbelievably painful to use. I think we can be pretty sure that no one will read this version instead of buying the printed book -- but that's only because practically no one is going to read this version, period.
GRRRR!
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This is now my next fav short story collection by a single author (first is still King's Night Shift). Gaimen is brilliant. What's more, he has short thoughts on the composition of each work, which is great for a hack writer like me. What's even more is somewhere he had a literal translation for yeti - something like 'that thing over there'. That makes so much sense. Poppin' Fresh thing over there.
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Hey! I'm not a "thing" and I'm certainly not "over there"!
Well, OK, maybe I am a "thing", but I really resent the suggestion that I might be "over there" when I am quite obviously "right here".
In the Tudor Period, Fencing Masters were classified in the Vagrancy Laws along with Actors, Gypsys, Vagabonds, Sturdy Rogues, and the owners of performing bears.
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...to the people of Nepal, PPFY is a thing and over there. It's all relativity, man, total Einstein, know what I mean?
Then again, it might have been Tibetan. Don't make me go back and find the exact quote. I have better things to do.
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You don't have better things to do.
So much for the flickr badge idea. Dammit
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Per the L.A. Library web site, I'll have that book soon.
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then you can post that quote when you find it.
seriously, i have better things to do. which is why i'm posting here on the forum. i'm neglecting my better things to do.
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Maybe if you hunted for the quote, your brain could actually come up with something to write for your job.
So much for the flickr badge idea. Dammit
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maybe if i found the quote i could shove it up... oh never mind. it doesn't matter. i'm not looking. nope. no way. can't make me do it. no effing way.
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Boys... sigh.
I picked up the book today, will read it this weekend and let you know. And in the meantime, I found this regarding possible origins of the word "yeti" all of which seem to be appropriate for our PPFY.
http://anomalyinfo.com/articles/ga00001.php
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...'that's totally mental' Don't even test my Harry Potter skillz now. T keeps me very sharp on this. Wands at the ready!
Enjoy the book, TQ. I loved it.
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The quote is in the Intro for heaven's sake!
"I was trying to imagine the very last book of the Bible.
And on the subject of naming animals, can I just say how happy I was to discover that the word yeti, literally translated, apparently means 'that thing over there.' ("Quick, brave Himalayan Guide -- what's that thing over there?"
"Yeti."
"I see.")"
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:oops:
how did you like the rest of the book?
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