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Punish indie band, big in the nineties. I mean, indie big. So not that big. Big-ish. More big-with-critics in retrospect.
Which Book Are You Reading Now? Volume XII
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Cox oder Der Lauf der Zeit by Austrian author Christoph Ransmayr about an English (18th century?) mechanic who goes to the Chinese Emperor to make special clocks for him.
Boy the author loves loves loves long sentences.
Still good though. Otherwordly atmospheric, almost like a fairly tale.
Boy the author loves loves loves long sentences.
Still good though. Otherwordly atmospheric, almost like a fairly tale.
I'm making headway through Henning Mankell's Wallander.
Hunderna i Riga
Man som log
Villospår
As flawed as Morse but in different ways. And I can really picture him with Krister Henriksson's face.
Hunderna i Riga
Man som log
Villospår
As flawed as Morse but in different ways. And I can really picture him with Krister Henriksson's face.
Eurgh.
SS-18 ICBM
Oscillator
Synthetic Biology Handbook (editor Darren Nesbeth) is a collection of articles providing a good outline (if a little overzealous of its benefits and distinction from traditional biology) of the titular emerging field. Current knowledge of biology has progressed to the point that creating new biologies is feasible. It starts with an outline of the subject, bemoaning comparisons to popular culture canards like Frankenstein. It then introduces common genetic tools used by synthetic biologists while making the case for standardization of biological methodologies. Several chapters then deal with prokaryotes, eukaryotic cells, and plants (synthetic watermelon may soon be a reality). The final part of the book is about the construction of de novo biological paradigms such as minimal cells and new genetic codes.
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Wee - although this is a bit of a cheat. I wrote this novel a couple of years ago. 
My target has been the mass paperback market, but for that, I need a major publisher, and for that, I need a big-time literary agent. To get a big-time literary agent, one needs to send s query. The chances of a query letter resulting in representation is 0.5%.
I've been pounding my head for a couple off years now.
My new strategy is to self publish an e-book. I've been looking a Kindle Scout.
I'm taking one last read through before I submit it. I'm tweaking the story a little, mainly adding in Oxford commas. The package should be ready for submission around Christmas time.
My target has been the mass paperback market, but for that, I need a major publisher, and for that, I need a big-time literary agent. To get a big-time literary agent, one needs to send s query. The chances of a query letter resulting in representation is 0.5%.
I've been pounding my head for a couple off years now.
My new strategy is to self publish an e-book. I've been looking a Kindle Scout.I'm taking one last read through before I submit it. I'm tweaking the story a little, mainly adding in Oxford commas. The package should be ready for submission around Christmas time.
Do you want proofreaders?
Den vita leijoninnan.
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Maltese Falcon.
IIRC $2.14 on Kindle. Good: Cheap & quick. Bad: It's kept on the cloud.
IIRC $2.14 on Kindle. Good: Cheap & quick. Bad: It's kept on the cloud.
FriendlyFire
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Retrograde
Great book.
Great book.
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Among the several books I got for Christmas, I started on The Men Who Loved Trains: The Story of Men Who Battled Greed to Save an Ailing Industry. Despite the rather strange title, the book is about the complete collapse of the Penn Central Railroad (and by extension, all of the other Northeast railroads) in the 1970s and how it came about from an interplay of business administration, the regulatory environment, politics, and just plain short-sightedness by the executives and board of directors.
Like most books written by a journalist instead of a historian, it moves along at a pretty quick pace and stays lively. The author does a good job at highlighting the similarities with Enron, in how the company executives -with the complicity of the auditors and indifference/complicity of the board- were able to engage in fraud to cook the books to try and hide how the company was hemorrhaging money like a wounded piggy bank. Money borrowed at ruinous interest rates to pay dividends, playing shell games with subsidiaries, you name it. (Alongside some distinctly Penn Central problems, like agreeing to union contracts that involved maintaining all employees following a massive railway merger AND rehiring employees previous let go for reasons unrelated to the merger.)
Like most books written by a journalist instead of a historian, it moves along at a pretty quick pace and stays lively. The author does a good job at highlighting the similarities with Enron, in how the company executives -with the complicity of the auditors and indifference/complicity of the board- were able to engage in fraud to cook the books to try and hide how the company was hemorrhaging money like a wounded piggy bank. Money borrowed at ruinous interest rates to pay dividends, playing shell games with subsidiaries, you name it. (Alongside some distinctly Penn Central problems, like agreeing to union contracts that involved maintaining all employees following a massive railway merger AND rehiring employees previous let go for reasons unrelated to the merger.)
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Thanks for the offer, but it's all ready been proofread.
Is Leon Blua (or how that would be spelled), a writer Borges mentions a number of times, real or fictional?
I wouldn't know.
I wanted free stuff! Gimme gimme gimme.
sophie
Break My Heart
Is this a joke? Honestly can’t tell.
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Maybe.
I submitted my novel today. They want 2 business days to "evaluate" it. Then we set up a launch date, say Jan. 6.
On launch day, my novel "Wee" will appear on Amazon's Kindle Scout website. Anyone with a Kindle or with the free "Kindle for PC" app can preview the first ~5,000 words for free. People can "nominate" [i.e. vote on] my book. Nominations stay open for 30 days.
After 30 days, nominations close. For 15 days, Kindle decides whether to publish my novel. If they do, I get $1,500 advance + royalties. Everyone who nominated my book gets a free copy of it.
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Cro Magnons: How the Ice Age Gave Birth to Modern Humans, Brian Fagan
Will be either my last book of 2017, or my first book of 2018. Depends on how quickly Steam downloads these expansion packs for Age of Empires II. (Seriously, new content after fifteen years? That's cool.)
Will be either my last book of 2017, or my first book of 2018. Depends on how quickly Steam downloads these expansion packs for Age of Empires II. (Seriously, new content after fifteen years? That's cool.)
yung.carl.jung
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Are you the next Karl Ove Knausgaard?
Nice to know that people still play. I'm not that good, but if you ever feel like doing multiplayer hit me up!
I also play Age of Mythology occasionally.
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