Books & Authors - February 2007

Do you read a book harry poter
if yes.
which book they most like.

2007-02-22 23:05:51 · 9 answers · asked by Anonymous

by the way where will i buy the books? becuase i live in philippines

2007-02-22 22:45:38 · 3 answers · asked by carmeLa 2

by the way where will i buy the books? becuase i live in philippines

2007-02-22 22:45:17 · 1 answers · asked by carmeLa 2

hey i need friends who are witers and / writers. pls chat me up. got lots 2 offer.

2007-02-22 22:30:41 · 6 answers · asked by lilies 2

Please write a short western-style story involving "lonely / alone", "cigarette", "hot noon" (you can make it "high" too - kind regards to Gary Cooper) and, somehow unavoidable given the context, "whiskey-smelling breath".
Not necessarily more than (approx) 7-8-9 lines in the compose box.
Please, don't just build up a sentence / some sentences with those expressions, try to make it coherent, in the form of a story (or a fragment of a story). The best one will be the most melancholical or funny one. You can even make it western-style in a SF context - you can do lots of things, so let it flow.
(sigh - if I could only answer my own questions...)

2007-02-22 22:26:12 · 2 answers · asked by jlb 2

Specifically, translations of things like Iä! Iä! Cthulhu Ftaghn!

2007-02-22 22:08:40 · 1 answers · asked by Bultimus 4

2007-02-22 22:07:01 · 7 answers · asked by Anonymous

I'm just curious. I've just made one recently, and I'm having great fun exploring. There are so many fun things you can do with the pages. I like the ones with writing related backgrounds.

2007-02-22 21:59:06 · 3 answers · asked by Globetrotter 5

WHOM DOU YOU THINK THE BEST CHARACTER IN HARRYPOTTER?
OPTION:
HARRYPOTTER ITSELF.
RONALD WEASLEY
HERMIONE GRANGER

2007-02-22 21:57:07 · 20 answers · asked by bhuvana r 2

I have been reading excerpts from his two trials and it seems he was a pedophile who went at it as far as his money would allow. I like his writing but if this stuff is true about his pederastry I am a bit put off.

2007-02-22 20:54:26 · 5 answers · asked by Anonymous

Terry Pratchett argued that the alphabet was as interactive as you could ever be with 26 letters 10 numbers and some punctuation you could project any scenario imaginable. Also paperbacks do not require electricity, are silent and don't get viruses.
I am 33 before anyone calls me Grandpa as well! LOL

2007-02-22 20:29:52 · 12 answers · asked by Dustbowl Blues 3

In the name of all that is common sense, where in the world do these peopel get the idea they have been published? What I mean is, there is a HUGE difference between having a bunch of rotten little poems you wrote published on some lame web site (that is vanity printing NOT real publishing) and actually sending a competent manuscript into a publisher (a real publisher in say, NYC, or similar) and getting PAID for your work! Those web sites and vanity presses take everyone's work! No real publisher publishes poetry today anyway. I have run into more people on Yahoo who say, hey, you don't know anything, because I am a published poet. These people are on some lame website for pete's sake, or have paid to have their cheesy little book printed up. That is NOT real publishing. Is everyone crazy? I think people had better realize there is a difference between real publishing versus on line nonsense. Also, many seem to feel they will be the next JK Rowling or John Grisham. Hello?

2007-02-22 20:23:09 · 18 answers · asked by Anonymous

Scott F Fitzsgerald.

John Steinbeck.

Steven King.

Charles Dickens.

Nevil Shute.

Rosamonde Pilcher.

Robert Tressell.

And why?

2007-02-22 20:19:49 · 26 answers · asked by Anonymous

I have done everything but beg you to post some of your work. Dont keep me waiting. I can't wait to see how great your really are!!

2007-02-22 20:17:30 · 1 answers · asked by Jenny 1

Not sure why exactly, but I found the movie kind of confusing and they left out aspects of the book, which is normal for any book to movie conversion. What are your thoughts?

2007-02-22 20:13:32 · 4 answers · asked by gotham158 3

If you kill whales, i hope you go pale,
As you slowly sharpen your ready for the kill i hope you spill your empty heart full of tears onto the whale as you go pale!

2007-02-22 19:56:09 · 9 answers · asked by Katja ie tattybow 1

2007-02-22 19:23:52 · 6 answers · asked by act as if no one is watching 1

Preface

This story for young adults (teens) and is about a man that has done nothing and is falsely convicted as we think… the president was killed and it is shown what your average person may/may not do in a case of being accused. Who do you know that may be a drunk reject from the area called society? If it was you call the hotline 1800 837 540 thank you.
Now Hugh Clyde was a shopkeeper with a pet dog wife and 9-year-old son.
We have investigated the area for drugs and the only person on them is… (we are not allowed to describe this information to the open public sorry.)





Chapter 1

He was dead, really dead. The president has actually been killed. It spread through town like a rocket, that he had been run over by a drunken truck driver (most probably on drugs) with spiked wheels and a rim like a razor.
I had been on the curb when he got killed for I had been going to work (I work at the corner shop.)

2007-02-22 19:23:26 · 9 answers · asked by Anonymous

any new things that rowling has let slip

2007-02-22 19:12:52 · 3 answers · asked by Not this time 1

How long did it take Frodo and Sam to get to Mordor in LOTR?

2007-02-22 19:04:37 · 4 answers · asked by papillion123 4

2007-02-22 18:49:32 · 2 answers · asked by Anonymous

I have already read all of Sophie Kinsella's books (the shopaholic ones & her other 2 books) and I read Good in Bed by Jennifer Weiner. Do you have any other good chic lit book recommendations?

2007-02-22 18:39:29 · 5 answers · asked by Bride2Be 8/30/08 5

2007-02-22 18:39:13 · 2 answers · asked by hill billy 1

Many librarians are attempting to ban a recent Newbery Award-winning children's book because it uses the word 'scrotum' - in reference to a dog.

Here is the context in which the word is used (from a recent news article):

"The Higher Power of Lucky" is the story of a 10-year-old girl in rural California and her quest for "Higher Power." The opening chapter includes a passage about a man "who had drunk half a gallon of rum listening to Johnny Cash all morning in his parked '62 Cadillac, then fallen out of the car when he saw a rattlesnake on the passenger seat biting his dog, Roy, on the scrotum."

Wow. I'm not even sure how that could lead to a human anatomy lesson. It's a frickin' dog's scrotum. And the guy in the passage is drunk! (But apparently that part's OK.) Censors need to get their heads out of their a.sses and let people use their own intelligence and judgment rather than deciding for them what they do and don't need to know.

2007-02-22 18:38:21 · 3 answers · asked by Anonymous

I'm gonna be writing a story. These are the kinds of charcters that i will include in my story: Orphan, Priest, Doctor, Foster parents. These are the emotions that i would like to portray: confused, alone, hurt, enraged, trapped, horrified, ashamed, helpless and deperate. I don't have a setting. If you all could help me out that would be great. Please don't answer if you're gonna just try to screw me up. Thanks!

2007-02-22 18:37:59 · 4 answers · asked by Vanessa Boyd 2

I recently bought the novel 100 Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez. When I got home, I remembered that the novel is originally written in Spanish and I thought to myself that it would be better to read it in the original language (Coincidentally my mother received a copy in spanish so now I have two). Now I'm about to read it in Spanish and I will read it in English to see how much a difference exists between the two.

So many great novels have been translated into various languages. Do you believe that there is something lost in the translation of these novels besides it not being in the original words of the author? If the message is the same, is there any real difference? Have any of you experienced this with anything you have read?

I've been thinking this over since many of the books I purchased lately have been translated from another language. Although I can read Spanish, I can't read Turkish or Portuguese.

Any comments and thoughts would be appreciated.

2007-02-22 17:58:44 · 7 answers · asked by faye 2

Is it better to go with an agent? Know any good ones?

2007-02-22 17:45:39 · 6 answers · asked by abbi 1

Great wine is fine, but a whiskeys quicker
Suicide is slower when drinking liquor
Drown your drink demons with a full bottle
But your demons are there fighting full throttle

Knocking on the passing doors, awaking dead
Stumble in wondering where I’m prone
So I make my bed. And resting my head.
Nights just a blur so I lie there and moan

On the next morning I am feeling rough
I Guess the night before must have been tough
Feeling sick as I slumped off the sofa
Then a flash back, I hired a shofer

People drink their silly self too death why

2007-02-22 17:41:48 · 17 answers · asked by Katja ie tattybow 1

2007-02-22 17:10:39 · 7 answers · asked by vijaykayal 5

What is rhythm when you dont have a beat.
I know some people who have rhythm but I dont feel it and I dont see it.
So whats rhythm?
To me rhythm is me.
Just waking up in the morning going down those stairs is a beat.
Opening the door is a beat.
Typing,talking and laughing.
I do those things.
So where is my rhythm?

2007-02-22 17:06:54 · 17 answers · asked by Anonymous