Recent content by fabkebab

I saw a hilarious "ad" at the side of this forum- it was basically for a service that will post messages to your forum to create the illusion that you have more members than you really do... Not suggesting anyone here wants to use it, but I thought it was funny and pertinent to your "driving...

Fair enough :)

Unless I am misunderstanding, you are suggesting that a new reader should judge a book by its cover- I agree that there are tons of great books which are unknown and might be passed over, but one could spend years of thier life reading well known, much loved, critically acclaimed books and still...

Surely there is a better way? One thing I like to do is go to Amazon for a book I liked and read the reviews - If I see someone who's comments I agree with, I then look at the other books they have rated highly and if any of them receive a very high average, and they are rated highly by the...

Could it be that the idea of a wife upping and leaving the family is just terrifying to us (which makes the whole book seem unsettling)? The womans life takes flight, but only at the expense of a husband who no longer has any value? When I see these books (I think i read the amazon reviews of...

Thanks for the warm welcome!! I am certainly interested in improving my fiction enjoyment rate - I feel a work of fiction has the potential to be more enjoyable, but only about 1/10 books really suck me in. I also am a father with two very young children, so I dont get much time for reading...

I have only completed one book this year so far (unfortunately) - "Cant buy me love - the beatles, Britain, America" by Jonathan Gould. I found the book interesting (I was born just about the time the beatles split up - coincidence?) - so I missed the entire phenomena - The silliest part...

I am a big poster in a music creation forum (the muses muse) and I have watched them decline from a peak of forum activity about 2 years ago to something quieter today - They always say "things go in cycles" but I think a lot of the people who used to come to "hang out" at forums are moving to...

I sometimes wonder if the large groups of people around non-fiction is due to a sort of "migration" away from libraries for college age people doing homework - I always see lots of people who seem to be doing school-looking stuff in the aisles of our local cafe-enhanced bookstores

We once had a friend who was a bit of a know-it-all (he had an opinion on every topic) - we were going on a road trip with him, and we thought it would be funny to trick him - The plan was that we would all read one book (Jared Diamond's Guns, germs and steel) and then "fall into" a...

Hi there everyone - I am a newbie so forgive me if this is an old, old question - But how much fiction do you read vs. nonfiction? For my part, I mostly read nonfiction (because it is typically less disappointing than fiction) - But i want to be someone who reads a lot more fiction...