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bart
Posted: Mon Oct 30, 2006 1:35 pm Reply with quote
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My criteria for reading a book is that the first page has to give me a boner. Sorry, but if Wright can't deliver on that, I'm going back to the sci-fi demimonde.

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whiskeypriest
Posted: Mon Oct 30, 2006 1:44 pm Reply with quote
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bart wrote:
My criteria for reading a book is that the first page has to give me a boner. Sorry, but if Wright can't deliver on that, I'm going back to the sci-fi demimonde.
Well, it starts with bearded women (probably not actual women) dancing, and a nearly naked runaway slave running out of a burning house....

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Posted: Tue Oct 31, 2006 1:33 am Reply with quote
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Hot!
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marantzo
Posted: Tue Oct 31, 2006 9:22 am Reply with quote
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That's why my book hasn't been published yet. I start with the schmuck on an island. I'm going to change it to him rolling around on the floor with his gorgeous stacked girlfriend.
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Marj
Posted: Tue Oct 31, 2006 6:01 pm Reply with quote
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LOL!!
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chillywilly
Posted: Tue Oct 31, 2006 6:58 pm Reply with quote
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marantzo wrote:
That's why my book hasn't been published yet. I start with the schmuck on an island. I'm going to change it to him rolling around on the floor with his gorgeous stacked girlfriend.

That will be a big seller amongst males 25-49.

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yambu
Posted: Tue Oct 31, 2006 7:44 pm Reply with quote
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marantzo wrote:
That's why my book hasn't been published yet. I start with the schmuck on an island. I'm going to change it to him rolling around on the floor with his gorgeous stacked girlfriend.
She doesn't even have to be gorgeous. That's how you edit down.
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marantzo
Posted: Tue Oct 31, 2006 8:38 pm Reply with quote
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Sorry yam, she's already in the book and she's gorgeous. Did you only read the part that had your namesake in?
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yambu
Posted: Wed Nov 01, 2006 10:30 am Reply with quote
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I'll answer you this way. My namesake deserves a lot more attention. A LOT more.
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Marj
Posted: Wed Nov 01, 2006 11:04 pm Reply with quote
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Guys,

Please continue this discussion in The Writer's Corner.

Thanks ...
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marantzo
Posted: Wed Nov 01, 2006 11:33 pm Reply with quote
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Why? Are you saying that my best seller isn't on anyone's bookshelf?
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Syd
Posted: Thu Nov 02, 2006 12:07 am Reply with quote
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marantzo wrote:
Why? Are you saying that my best seller isn't on anyone's bookshelf?


The filmed version will probably star Madonna.

But check out Island of the Sequined Love Nun by Christopher Moore. (It won't be filmed because of a benevolent plane hijacking.)

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bart
Posted: Thu Nov 02, 2006 11:25 am Reply with quote
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It deserves a look, if only for the sake of the title.

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dlhavard
Posted: Thu Nov 02, 2006 1:59 pm Reply with quote
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Favorite Title: Bride of the Rat God by Barbara Hambly.

It is also a good read. Sort of half romance/half horror. Takes place in the 20s in Hollywood. Hambly manages to convey horror quite well.

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lshap
Posted: Thu Nov 02, 2006 4:13 pm Reply with quote
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I just started Jonathan Franzen's "The Corrections", wanting to see what all that hype was about. A decidedly UN-boner-esque first few pages - style trampling over substance - but I remain hopeful the public's discerning taste will prevail.
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