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Re: What are you reading, part 3
« Reply #120 on: May 24, 2007, 05:04:07 AM »
The Complete Sherlock Holmes by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
The Shattered Land book 2 of The Dreaming Dark by Keith Baker
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Re: What are you reading, part 3
« Reply #121 on: May 24, 2007, 05:58:31 AM »
Quote from: dan_gaidin on May 21, 2007, 10:43:17 PM
Really?  Didn't know that simple peons like myself could do such a thing.  Is there a list of  "book review do's and don'ts" somewhere on the site?"  Or should I just check out what's been done before and copy the format?  I'd love to blab my opinion.  :)  How do I submit it?  At this point I'm guessing that all this info is somewhere and I should probably just make my lazy fingers get off of their respective butts and click the mouse a time or two.  I'll look.  Thanks for the info.

Edit:  So, I just kicked my fingers into gear and found some guidelines.  Oddly enough, there's no specific guidelines for books... everything but, in fact, it seems.  :)  I'll check out previous reviews, but it might be nice to have a list of things to include in a book review listed on the general TWG submission guidelines page (probably as altered by Fell as he's the original poster).  I'll be sure to put one up for The Name of the Wind as soon as I'm finished.  Thanks for mentioning this.  Should be fun.  :)

It's easy, you just submit (from the front page), and then I edit and post it when the schedule allows. When you submit it, I'll look at it and if it needs changes, I'll be sure to contact you. Do what format you're comfortable with. We don't have guidelines as yet. We're working on creating a style guide. But in the meantime, do it however you want.

We always need more reviewers.
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Re: What are you reading, part 3
« Reply #122 on: May 24, 2007, 02:25:07 PM »
and read the clock score guidelines linked to fromt he submission page. Please.
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Re: What are you reading, part 3
« Reply #123 on: May 24, 2007, 04:56:34 PM »
Yeah.  I've already read the clock scoring guidelines.  Good setup, I think.  Just finished the book last night.  Oh boy. :)  Do my best to get a review written by the end of the day tomorrow.  Thanks for the info.
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Re: What are you reading, part 3
« Reply #124 on: May 24, 2007, 04:58:44 PM »
Ah, had another question.  Do you only take one review for a book?  For example, I'm in the middle of Stranger in a Strange Land right now, and the book is pretty old and popular.  So, I'm thinking that there might already be a review for it somewhere.  If there is, can I still review it?  Thanks.
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Re: What are you reading, part 3
« Reply #125 on: May 24, 2007, 06:05:22 PM »
if there is a substantive difference in the things you say about the book, we are happy to take multiple reviews for the same work.
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Re: What are you reading, part 3
« Reply #126 on: May 24, 2007, 10:27:59 PM »
Okay so two things.

One:  How do I find out if a review has already been done on a particular book?  I found the "Book" section on the main page, but I'd have to click through every page of reviews to find a particular book that way.  Is there a listing of reviewed books somewhere?  Maybe sorted alphabetically by author or title?  I mean, I'll probably write a review for a book that has been previously reviewed on TWG anyhow so that I can put it on my chainreading page, but it would make things easier to have accessibility like this anyhow.

Two:  I have my review for The Name of the Wind done, but I've tried to submit the article twice (yes I checked to make sure that I was logged in first) and each time it says

     Article error, article not saved.

Don't know what I'm doing wrong...
Thanks.
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Re: What are you reading, part 3
« Reply #127 on: May 24, 2007, 10:41:55 PM »
just do a search for the book title, sorting of article titles is coming but not anytime soon.

as for the error, article not saved, that's a bug it should be fixed now, I had forgot to check this while I was on vacation.
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Re: What are you reading, part 3
« Reply #128 on: May 25, 2007, 05:13:01 PM »
Dan Gaidin, if you're still having trouble submitting, you can always email it to me.
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Re: What are you reading, part 3
« Reply #129 on: May 25, 2007, 07:38:48 PM »
Success!  :)  And I'm off...
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Re: What are you reading, part 3
« Reply #130 on: June 04, 2007, 11:03:51 PM »
Reading Deadhouse Gates (Second book in the Tale of the Malazan Book of the Fallen) by Stephen Erikson.
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Re: What are you reading, part 3
« Reply #131 on: June 11, 2007, 06:40:06 PM »
Gave up on the Malazan.  Too much and definitely not enough.  So, I picked up "to say NOTHING of the DOG" by Connie Willis.  Heard it was a good time travel story.
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Re: What are you reading, part 3
« Reply #132 on: June 11, 2007, 09:59:28 PM »
Oh yeah, it's a great story. There's even a review here I did a while back.

Right now I'm reading:

Lords of the White Castle by Elizabeth Chadwick
Dies the Fire by S.M. Stirling
A Train to Potevka by Mike Ramsdell
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Re: What are you reading, part 3
« Reply #133 on: June 17, 2007, 08:05:27 PM »
I'm reading a book called Hiding the Elephant about the illusionists and other magicians of the 19th/early 20th centuries.
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Re: What are you reading, part 3
« Reply #134 on: July 09, 2007, 05:37:55 PM »
Just finished The Shining by King, and now into Writers of the Future Vol 20 and Fear by Hubbard.  Should be interesting.
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