Books & Authors - February 2007

who were the inovators and revolutionaries and what specifically were the possibilities they opened up.

all im asking is what books were a radical departure from everything that had gone before.

2007-02-21 21:12:34 · 4 answers · asked by Anonymous

I'm writing a book set in the early Victorian era, but I'm having trouble with my hero. I want him to be humorous and amiable to the heroine, and yet, I prefer my heros cynical...or should I mix the two traits up?

Anyways, what kind of heros do you like? And why?

2007-02-21 20:39:48 · 7 answers · asked by June H 1

2007-02-21 19:20:36 · 7 answers · asked by .. 2

I'm trying to sell my movie script. I have three completed, which are together a trilogy. I am working on a seperate forth. I have a pretty good place and chance of selling them, but I like to be over prepared. I just want some extra advice.

2007-02-21 18:37:10 · 3 answers · asked by understandthis 2

2007-02-21 18:35:44 · 5 answers · asked by Daniel R 1

I'm just wondering. My sisters and my parents don't read. They said it's boring. I'm the only one who read books in the fam.

2007-02-21 18:34:12 · 15 answers · asked by Anonymous

I'm a very big fan of Dan Brown. Please. Can anyone give an answer?

2007-02-21 18:32:08 · 2 answers · asked by Anonymous

How will J.K. Rowling finish the Harry Potter series?

2007-02-21 18:29:34 · 7 answers · asked by Anonymous

Do the famous novelist actually read other novels or are they more concerned with theres. I was wondering why I want to write one but don't really care to read one is this normal for writers.

2007-02-21 18:10:28 · 13 answers · asked by ? 3

does anyone know the signifigance of Janes paintings?

2007-02-21 18:08:01 · 1 answers · asked by brittany 1

I made this poem and i wanted to know if anything could be changed. Like making the syllables the same and stuff.
It can only remain 16 lines though:) Enjoy

IN THE PATH OF A WAR
I can hear the guns firing beside me,
Land mines go off making it harder to see.
A German soldier approaches, aiming his gun,
I was frozen with fear then began to run.
As I run as fast as I could, I think of my family,
And when I last felt my daughter hugging me.
As night falls all the lights go out,
Now I’m not sure who is lurking about.
Out jumps a soldier holding a knife,
He gave me a look of contempt and took my life.
Watching my daughter grow up is what I will miss,
I never said goodbye or gave my wife a kiss.
My time here on earth isn’t too long,
As I can hear the angels’ heavenly song.
I drew my last breath in the thin frosty air,
Then I drifted off to heaven without any care.

2007-02-21 17:54:26 · 7 answers · asked by xCupidsEnemyx 1

I read a lot of books when I was younger, and I barely remember it, but I think it was a series of the same books that told moral stories (kind of like the bearenstien bears) and all I can remember is this one book about the gimme monster or something.... when I think of it I can see in my head the one that says gimme is in a tree and is looking down in a lake and he takes something from the other person.... im thinking the "people" in the book are furry creatures?? I KNOW this is very vague, but I REALLY REALLY want to know what these books were it's driving me CRAZY
ANY suggestions are MORE THAN WELCOME!!! PLS PLS HELP!

2007-02-21 17:25:16 · 9 answers · asked by Just Plain Old Me 2

2007-02-21 17:16:52 · 9 answers · asked by Anonymous

What is the significance of the title?

(this is not a school homework assignment - don't worry)

2007-02-21 17:16:03 · 2 answers · asked by bostontransplant 2

La La Land

A charming place
Where daydreams are real
No need to beg
Or borrow or steal.

Where things are not bought
But simply given away
And the sun shines brightly
Everyday

Its always pleasant
In la la land
Where all goes well
And according to plan

There is no pain
No broken hearts
Everyday
Is a brand new start

Dreamers dream
And watch them come true
Nobody sits around
Crying the blues

Each head has a cloud
To wear as a crown
Nobody can steal it
Or put it down

Where your hearts desire
Is always at hand
So what’s wrong with living
In la la land?

2007-02-21 17:03:40 · 11 answers · asked by Jenny 1

Does anyone know if they are planing to make Eldest into a movie (the second eragon book) or if there will be a 3rd book?

2007-02-21 16:54:30 · 9 answers · asked by Julie Ann 3

2007-02-21 16:47:10 · 6 answers · asked by joy 1

I have a really great manuscript, but have know way of getting it to a publisher.

2007-02-21 16:35:03 · 6 answers · asked by Wannabewriter 1

2007-02-21 16:34:13 · 6 answers · asked by e is 4 ediot 2

I have already read Grisham

2007-02-21 16:03:41 · 14 answers · asked by kevinmacleod1 2

Reading a couple of amazon reviews of some of my favorite books, most have almost-perfect ratings. And they wouldve gotten perfect, if people did not ramble with hate about the indeterminate endings.

Are people too obsessed with fairy tales?

If you were an author, would you risk finishing your masterpiece with a well thought out indeterminate ending if it meant that you would get some unsatisfied readers?

2007-02-21 15:56:53 · 13 answers · asked by Charles W 2

Does anyone know how, when I am finished with my book how can I get it published?

2007-02-21 15:34:40 · 6 answers · asked by E.F. Landeros 3

I wanted to write a story people ages 10-14 would like. I want it to be about a girl (12 years old) who is always being made fun of by her classmates and finds out she has powers (that come from the darkness or evil of the world although she doesn't need to be evil) and since she is angry she joins the bad guy. But in the end she gives her life to save the friends she never had.

2007-02-21 15:31:05 · 3 answers · asked by Anonymous

I'm doing a school project and I need songs that go along with Catcher in the Rye. Any suggestions?

2007-02-21 15:30:10 · 6 answers · asked by Anonymous

I have a tough English teacher, so do the best you can, please!

2007-02-21 15:27:53 · 4 answers · asked by Anonymous

2007-02-21 15:21:45 · 5 answers · asked by captjaneway 2

I have a homework thats about love at first sight;but I don`t know any stories,plays,or songs etc. that involves love at first sight.If you know any then please tell me and please tell me what it has to do with love at first sight(I will give the points to whoever has the most or is most descriptive).

2007-02-21 15:20:32 · 6 answers · asked by khwanlee92 2

Can anyone PLEASE help interpret this poem for me? I can't find anything, and honestly, it doesn't make much sense to me...

I

Among twenty snowy mountains,
The only moving thing
Was the eye of the black bird.

II

I was of three minds,
Like a tree
In which there are three blackbirds.

III

The blackbird whirled in the autumn winds.
It was a small part of the pantomime.

IV

A man and a woman
Are one.
A man and a woman and a blackbird
Are one.

V

I do not know which to prefer,
The beauty of inflections
Or the beauty of innuendoes,
The blackbird whistling
Or just after.

VI

Icicles filled the long window
With barbaric glass.
The shadow of the blackbird
Crossed it, to and fro.
The mood
Traced in the shadow
An indecipherable cause.

VII

O thin men of Haddam,
Why do you imagine golden birds?
Do you not see how the blackbird
Walks around the feet
Of the women about you?

VIII

I know noble accents
And lucid, inescapable rhythms;
But I know, too,
That the blackbird is involved
In what I know.

IX

When the blackbird flew out of sight,
It marked the edge
Of one of many circles.

X

At the sight of blackbirds
Flying in a green light,
Even the bawds of euphony
Would cry out sharply.

XI

He rode over Connecticut
In a glass coach.
Once, a fear pierced him,
In that he mistook
The shadow of his equipage
For blackbirds.

XII

The river is moving.
The blackbird must be flying.

XIII

It was evening all afternoon.
It was snowing
And it was going to snow.
The blackbird sat
In the cedar-limbs.

Wallace Stevens

2007-02-21 15:18:14 · 3 answers · asked by Cheri 1

Eragon and Eldest
Naruto
Harry Potter
Redwall Series
Artemis Fowl
Chronicles of Narnia
Land of Elyon series
Earthsea series
My Life as a........... series

2007-02-21 15:10:31 · 12 answers · asked by Anonymous

2007-02-21 14:54:50 · 2 answers · asked by Federico M 1