Hart of a Tiger

[chuck_starchaser]

Just finished reading The Price of Freedom, the book.
Terrible writing skills, the authors. Like in the old funny example "Because he was barking all night, Sam threw Tobby out the window." And you have to figure out it was Tobby, not Sam that was barking. The writers of this book, similarly, mention two or more people in one sentence, and then use "he" liberlally in the next sentence; --and often inscrutably. Plus, writing "capitol ship" where they mean "capital ship" and worse things I can't remember now. However, the story is nice and immersive and as such I recommend it.

Question: Does anybody here have Heart of a Tiger, the book, that I could borrow it? I'm asking because, unlike Price of Freedom, Heart is out of print. I can send you a money order as a guarantee for return.

[Wendy]

Question: Does anybody here have Heart of a Tiger, the book, that I could borrow it? I'm asking because, unlike Price of Freedom, Heart is out of print. I can send you a money order as a guarantee for return.

I remember throwing a book into the trash, after only having read the first chapter, because the author used the word presently in almost every other paragraph. Seriously.

About the book you're looking for, Try amazon.com. I've found quite a few out of print books in their used books section.

Smaller book stores register with them and list their wares with them. If you haven't already tried it, what the hey, give it a shot.

I'm waiting for someone to try and change the print copyright laws to equal the electronic ones. If they do, you won't be able to sell a book after buying it, AND, you won't be able to give it away! You will have purchased the rights to own it and read it, but those rights are non-transferrable....

<sigh>

W.

[chuck_starchaser]

Yeah, quite interesting how the media moguls suddenly acquired such philosophical sensitivities to pure intellectual abstractions, like "information", having almost concrete reality, and being even "transferable", as if 1 and 0 could be located in 3D space, or put on a truck; not to speak of "owned". What does "own" mean, anyways? Does a thing change when it's owned?
And the moguls must have told the lawmakers that Jesus would refuse to raise the dead in the day of reckoning unless we made 1's and 0's ownable, transferable, and stealable. How else they got to pass their mystical elucbrations into law, I can't imagine.
Speaking of which, I'd better copyright prime numbers before someone else does it!

1,2,3,5,7,11,13,17,19,23,29,31,37,43,...
Copyright 2005, by Chuck Starchaser

Ah... feel much better now.

I'll check Amazon; thanks for the tip; I don't own a credit card, though...

[Wisq]

I remember throwing a book into the trash, after only having read the first chapter, because the author used the word presently in almost every other paragraph. Seriously.

OT: Ah, but in what sense? "In the very near future", in which case the author should merely be sent back to writing school, or "right now", in which case he should be shoved out the airlock for repeated acts of language treason?

[Wendy]

I'll be right there = I'll be there presently. Okay, that's what it should be. But find another way of saying it if you need it again in an other paragraph in the next page or two.

I'll get to in soon = I'll get to it presently. Umm...soon is better.
And so on.

Trash.

There are dozens of ways to say what s/he wanted, but it was always presently. Over 100 instances of the word in chapter 1.

Someone taught the writer a new word.

--EDIT--
Then we have the writers that rely on spell check and/or their love of the verb to be.

Their, they're, there
Your and you're
to, too, two

or

had gone
had done
had given

or....

W.

[klauss]

That's why I couldn't read flowers for algernon. The first chapters are unreadable. I know the character is supposed to be retarded... but did the author have to make it so damn hard to read? Every page took me several minutes. I just couldn't and wouldn't read such a language, no matter how good the book is (which it is, if you get past those chapters - as someone told me).

But, in this case, it was deliberate. A better reason to trash the book, IMO. Anyway, I don't believe in trashing books, so it's still there on th shelf. Perhaps some day I'll try again.

[Wendy]

At least I didn't burn it, I just practised selective censorship on my "library."

[powell99]

Heart of the Tiger is by far the worst book except for freedom flight, which should be destroyed with extreme predjudice.. If you want a good one read End run, Action Stations, Flase Colours, and The one about the battle of Earth whose name I seem to have drawn a blank on. The Price of Freedom is interesting because it has many errors that are not in any of the others.

Really though I skimmed the first chapter I did not find presently in any wierd matter. Only the typical The Borderworlders are presently engaging in terrorist acts. Your example amazingly off. I suggest you read it again.

[Wendy]

Really though I skimmed the first chapter I did not find presently in any wierd matter. Only the typical The Borderworlders are presently engaging in terrorist acts. Your example amazingly off. I suggest you read it again.

Ah...

As Mkruer's sig says:

"I know you believe you understand what you think I said.
But I am not sure you realize that what you heard is not what I meant. "

Not THAT book, a different book, a girlie book. Pulp fiction. Girl's Porn.
A good old-fashioned romance novel.

THey have sex scenes that could have come out of the pages of my Darling Husband's Penthouse Magazine.

Be that as it may, they usually have better writing and a plot. Sometimes they're even action adventure. The good historicals actually can teach you a moderate amount of history.

I just said, I have a very hard time reading a book when the language is butchered and cited an example without citing title or author. I threw the thing away.

=)

Sorry. I wish I knew the title so I could let you waste your money.
There are some decent examples of pulp fiction out there. THat was not one of them.
W.

[powell99]

Wow. I was off. I'm terribly sorry.