Timewaster's Guide Archive

The artist's job is to grab the attention of a buyer, not to perfectly portray the story. It annoys me sometimes, but I totally understand why they do it. And you're right, the art's not to hang on the wall, it's to sit on a bookself, and the artist paints what the publishers tell them to.

The artist can only offer the publisher multiple concept drawings. Painting multiple covers would cause an artist to go bankrupt. And even after the artist submits the concepts, the publishers have them change and alter them all the time. A lot of times what the publisher chooses isn't even what the artist would have chosen themselves.

Haha... wow, ummm, anywhere from 5 to 10(or more), no joke. I'm not too picky about what I read, but I tend to only read something when I'm in the mood for it, and my mood can change from hour to hour. So reading lots of books at the same time guarantees I'll never get bored!

Hey, Blood Bound! There's something about they Mercy Thompson novels that I just love.

I agree with your review, the book was a lot tighter than the other one, and the plot wasn't so all over the place. Although, I think I liked the first one better, still. I really liked the Werewolf society she created, I thought it was interesting and creative. But I felt that the Vampires were about as generic as they got. I like Stefen, don't get me wrong, but when it came to their workings and society there wasn't anything that new or different.

Wow. You know, the interview(?) started off so normal, but then Goodkind's opinion of himself escalated until he made himself out to be a god.

I'm a bit in the minority here, too, though on a different viewpoint. I tried reading Wizards First Rule, but after the first one or two hundred pages I finally gave up. I thought it was boring, dry, and predictable. Not to mention the characters felt like paper cut outs... How was it he beathed life into a dead genre? To which he doesn't belonged, he claims, yet says he revived. Yeah...

I was browsing in B. Dalton and saw Elantris stting on the new release shelf. Read the inside flap, thought it sounded interesting, but didn't have the cash to buy an adult hardback. Or any hardback, for that matter.

A couple months later I was at the library and miraculously remebered the name of the book. Yup, miraculous, because this is the girl that has to run up from the basement three times to ask 'Mom, what did you need from food storage again?" And that's that. Brandon became my favorite author.

Haha! Conrates FTH! Man, I don't know how people like you pump out so many words so quickly! It puts me in awe and makes me sick at the same time (in a good way, of course!)

Ah, true, true. My library ispart of my school, so I can usually pop in there right after class. So yeah, I guess it would be good for a lot of people.

Yeah, but is spending ten minutes looking for the book you want really any worse than waiting two days for it to arrive in the mail? Plus you can just have everything you want sent to the hold shelve if you really want, then you don't have to bother looking for it. Although I might be biased, I love book browsing.

That sounds expensive, though. If I was going to pay that much for a book I'd just buy it.