6. Do you have an e-reader? NO. Screens are for online blogs and such. If I can get a classic in hardback, I read it in hardback. I hate e-readers, and I'm not going to apologize for it. Heh--this was my initial thought as well, when they first started coming out. However, since so many of my writer friends are contracted with epublishers, I have no choice but to buy the ebooks if I want to support them. It'd be nice to have something smaller and more portable than my laptop to read them on.
And DUUUUUDE, you need to read Harry Potter!! I know it's a huge undertaking, but they will go by so fast you won't believe it. Also, unlike those of us who read the books as they were being published, you won't have to deal with all the speculative nail-biting that went on while we were waiting for the next one to come out. (Pure torture, I tell you! But in a good way.)
I really need to read more classic mysteries as well as more non-fiction. I've read exactly one Agatha Christie--Crooked House--which was quite good, obviously, and a few Sherlock Holmes stories here and there, and Poe sometimes wrote mysteries--in fact he wrote a number of stories with a gothic detective character that some scholars think was a predecessor to Holmes, but I can't think of the name right now--but that's about it.
And I couldn't finish Moby Dick either. I still should, at some point. That whole chapter on the biology and habits of whales is what killed me.
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NO. Screens are for online blogs and such. If I can get a classic in hardback, I read it in hardback. I hate e-readers, and I'm not going to apologize for it.
Heh--this was my initial thought as well, when they first started coming out. However, since so many of my writer friends are contracted with epublishers, I have no choice but to buy the ebooks if I want to support them. It'd be nice to have something smaller and more portable than my laptop to read them on.
And DUUUUUDE, you need to read Harry Potter!! I know it's a huge undertaking, but they will go by so fast you won't believe it. Also, unlike those of us who read the books as they were being published, you won't have to deal with all the speculative nail-biting that went on while we were waiting for the next one to come out. (Pure torture, I tell you! But in a good way.)
I really need to read more classic mysteries as well as more non-fiction. I've read exactly one Agatha Christie--Crooked House--which was quite good, obviously, and a few Sherlock Holmes stories here and there, and Poe sometimes wrote mysteries--in fact he wrote a number of stories with a gothic detective character that some scholars think was a predecessor to Holmes, but I can't think of the name right now--but that's about it.
And I couldn't finish Moby Dick either. I still should, at some point. That whole chapter on the biology and habits of whales is what killed me.