Recent content by Bob Magness

Of ALL the flags to confuse it with, that was the worst they could have chosen. I don't think it was deliberate, though.

With the exception of graphics heavy books, I prefer ebooks to dead tree books. In fact, on several occasions I have purchase an ebook when I already owned the physical book, just so I could read it on my preferred medium.

There are some books in which I continue to have “false starts”. I’ll get a couple chapters into them, lose interest, and by the time I give them another try I have to start back at the beginning. Sometimes this happens with books that I KNOW I will enjoy once they get going. For example, I...

"When a man carries a gun all the time, the respect he thinks he's getting might really be fear. So I don't carry a gun because I don't want the people of Mayberry to fear a gun. I'd rather they respect me. " ~ Sheriff Andy Griffith The Andy Griffith Show was a couple decades before my time...

It is great for when you are traveling or out and about and what to limit the number of devices you are carrying. I have started leaving my Kindle and laptop at home and only grabbing my iPad when I am mobile. If I want to get some reading in then I use the Kindle app. But when I am at home...

I defer to the mods in whatever makes their job easier. From my own perspective I don’t see the point in having it. It is choked full of threads posted by people who join the board for the sole purpose of advertising. It would be one thing if the posters were long standing contributing members...

I love how nobody picks Harry. :) Snape is definitely my favorite. I like the complexity of his character. I also enjoy strong female characters so Hermione is a close second.

That is usually how I prefer to read series as well. But I thought this one was finished. Any idea if this is the last one or if there is even a last one planned?

He was a brilliant writer who wrote about politics, war and religion. He was also one of the best debaters I have ever seen, who could deal "lethal" blows with a turn of a phrase. I agreed with most of what he said about religion. And I disagreed with most of what he said about politics. But...

I do think it is safe to say that the vast majority of fiction has conflict. I am also a prolific reader and I can't remember off the top of my head reading something that didn't have conflict. Of course conflict doesn't have to be between two opposing people. The conflict can be with oneself...

This generation of kids has every excuse not to read. The amount of eye catching electronic entertainment they have access to is mind boggling. It is easy for them to be bored even thinking about staring at a page of text when they could be engaging in some high resolution MMORPG with their...

I have noticed the older I get the more non-fiction I read, though I would still say 2/3 of what I read is fiction. That trend may continue but I highly doubt I will ever abandon fiction completely. I enjoy it too much and it offers an escape from the stresses of everyday life. This might be...

Hmmm, I wonder if your brain gets heavier when you do. Sparkchaser, get on that, will you? ;)

Thanks all. Beer Good, you are right, it does seem to be an underexploited market. That surprises me a bit as it seems like a fertile ground.

I want to give reading some steampunk a try but most of it seems to be set in Victorian era Europe, which I am not interested in. I am looking for something set in the American West. I have been googling “western steampunk” and am not having that much luck. Most of what I come up with has a...