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Pretty good list. I thought 'F-451' and '1984', since both have been influencing man's thinking for longer than some of the other titles, should have been higher on the list.
Noticed Ursula K LeGuin had two entries, except they rated 'Left Hand of Darkness' higher than 'The Lathe of Heaven'...
We try to set the standard.
It's been working fairly well.
Publishing and marketing books is not a big mystery. You need a viable product. You have to be able to obtain the product at below 'normal wholesale'. Market intelligently.
It's just like selling charcoal briquets, canned beets...
I can assure you (being both a book ed and a mag ed) that NOT all the fresh ideas have been used.
Just when I think I'm never going to see anything new, someone always surprises me.
Keep trying! I get my best ideas while vacuuming...:)
Since I write a lot, I picked my real name as the username. This is for google purposes. Your google entries need to show up if you write, because that's the first place publishers go when a writer submits. (They check the name on the manuscript on google)
So...if you post up or sub out short...
You know you're addicted to reading when...
You keep falling behind your partner at the supermarket because you stop to read anything on product labels that looks interesting.
Back in 2002, I couldn't decide what I liked to do more - writing or editing books, so I decided to do both. This is how Adventure Books of Seattle came together.
I convinced Geoff Nelder from Great Britain to jump on board, and then Gayla Prociv, who already owned another business. She now...
I had to post up to say that the free eBook time has passed. I was amazed at the number of downloads.
We may have to do this again. Cory Doctorow's idea, not mine.
I think the question, 'best book I ever read' needs a qualifier, at least for me. Let's say:
"Best book I ever read, between the time I started reading, and the first time I decided a book WAS the best...up to that point."
I have to say '1984,' at age 12.
There is NO way I can explain this all here in a short post...but...Adventure Books made a video a few months ago based on Allan Guthrie's whitepaper, 'Cutting Out The Pleonasms'.
A 'pleonasm' is a word or phrase which can be cut from a sentence without changing the meaning of the sentence...
I'm going to try some variety here, but they are all classics:
'Huckleberry Finn'
'Catcher in the Rye'
'1984'
'Fahrenheit 451'
'To Kill a Mockingbird'
'All Quiet on the Western Front'
'The Diary of Anne Frank'
I didn't recommend any of the 19th Century classics (except Huck Finn)...
The Prophecy:
God text-messaged me today and said all of you should buy a book from us....
You'd better get busy. You wouldn't want to make him angry.
Oh, and if you believe THAT, I have this nice beachfront property in Kansas you may be interested in...;)