I'll use which ever term I see fit thankyou very much.
Star Wars Novel Question?
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I'll use which ever term I see fit thankyou very much.
More specifically, it means the point where a show has run out of good ideas or fresh things to say. Happy Days was supposed to be a show about teenage life and problems in the 1950s, so when they did an episode anchored by the Fonz character going waterskiing and jumping over a shark, something which had nothing to do with the show's original premise or purpose, it was seen as a sign that it no longer had any valid stories to tell and was flailing for gimmicks to justify its continued existence.
I see this sentiment all the time but I can't get into Stover. I didn't care for his Revenge of the Sith novelization, and have struggled with his Mace Windu/Clone Wars novel, Traitor didn't grab me, and I put down his Shadows of Minor novel. He doesn't do it for me.
Burning books is wrong if you're Hitler and you're trying to stop ppl from reading books.
Burning a book I paid money for and thought was the crappiest thing I've ever read, well there's absolutely nothing wrong with that. It's my book, I'll do with it as I please.
Now, if I tried to hunt down every single copy of these books, and burned them, then THAT would be wrong.
I just think books should be treated with respect, whatever their content. I don't break their spines or dogear their pages. I didn't even highlight textbooks in college -- just underlined or bracketed passages very lightly in pencil so the marks could be easily erased. If I dislike a book, I donate it or sell it. The only books I've ever discarded were ones that had completely fallen apart and that I'd gotten replaced (such as my original copy of The Making of Star Trek that I got in first grade), and I was reluctant even to do that.
I've wiped my arse on a few terrible books in the past when I've been out of toilet paper and like many an englishman I've been compelled to draw a 'spunking knob' on a few for reasons that I simply don't understand.
I treat my books with the utmost respect. Pretty much every book I own, dating back twenty or more years, looks brand new like the day I bought it. I also don't crack spines, or fold page corners to mark my spot. And I don't make a habit of burning books I don't like.
These were just SOOOOO horrible.......
Like, really, really bad horrible. Literature's equivalant of having diarrhea and vomiting at the same time.
They deserved their fate. The only regret I have is that I paid for them in the first place.
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Burning books is wrong if you're Hitler and you're trying to stop ppl from reading books.
Burning a book I paid money for and thought was the crappiest thing I've ever read, well there's absolutely nothing wrong with that. It's my book, I'll do with it as I please.
Now, if I tried to hunt down every single copy of these books, and burned them, then THAT would be wrong.
Is George Lucas wrong for trying to do that with the Holiday Special?
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Burning books is wrong if you're Hitler and you're trying to stop ppl from reading books.
Burning a book I paid money for and thought was the crappiest thing I've ever read, well there's absolutely nothing wrong with that. It's my book, I'll do with it as I please.
Now, if I tried to hunt down every single copy of these books, and burned them, then THAT would be wrong.
Is George Lucas wrong for trying to do that with the Holiday Special?
Yes, because it smacks of censorship. Regardless of the quality if the material, censorship of ANY kind is wrong.
That's like me saying that since I don't like musicals, nobody else can either, so I should hunt down and destroy every musical in creation.
Yep. This makes me really happy, because the Star Wars novels were pretty much the only books I couldn't find in electronic format. I think this leaves just the Bond novels, and maybe one or two others that I can't find electronically.
This link will also make you happy...
http://ebookstore.sony.com/author/ian-fleming_80011
It's the James Bond eBooks by Ian Flemming.
You have to download Reader Library from the Sony eBookstore. You use that to buy them and download them. You will also need to have ADE installed and registered. Your nook will have to be authorized with ADE. Once you download these from Sony, they will be in standard ePub with Adept DRM and will be compatible with Sony Readers, nooks, Kobos, and any reader/reading app that supports Adobe Adept DRM. That is the DRM ADE for Windows uses.
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