My Literary Links
Submitted by bertie on Tue, 02/20/2001 - 10:02
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- Amazon.com Books - of course. [The reason I haven't linked this is that this site always personalizes your link - if you've signed up - and I'm not sure a link won't reveal personal information. Ooga booga!]
- Arts and Letters Daily - Selected book reviews, magazine articles, etc., updated daily.
- Books On-Line - A library of nigh on 14 000 e-texts. Mostly free access.
- Classic bookshelf.com - Another library site, not as big as Books On-Line but automatically places bookmarks in texts you've started reading; also allows choice of a range of fonts and colours.
Author Comments:
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Bertie - try http://www.allreaders.com/ for when you have a very specific idea of what you feel like reading (they allow you to search by settings, character traits, prominent plots points, etc). Entertaining in itself!
timepiece, thanks for the tip. Actually, I have been to allreaders before. Our fellow listologist Rhaam put me onto it after he added a bunch of reviews. I have to confess that when I went there and started to do a review I couldn't finish, because I couldn't take the questions seriously: they read just like a send-up of genre fiction. Of course, I realise the questions must be that way because of the nature of the service the site offers. But even so, when you go through their 'enter your own review' process it underlines all the cliches (and latests fads) of the genre you're writing about.
well, of course answering all of them would be ridiculous, but answering a select few can provide an interesting reading list. I like "survival" stories of any kind, living off the land and so forth (Robinson Crusoe, Freedom's Landing), so I tried a "stranded" plot with a few other things. Unfortunatly, they don't have a big enough review list yet. Actually, I find just reading rhough the questions entertaining.
If you think it can make your favorite genres seem silly, you should read the questions in the romance category - particularly what kind of sex you want to be in the story.