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Re: The 2018 Reading Challenge
Posted: Nov 3rd, '18, 03:19
by MissNikki
I read more last year than this year, sadly. I got a new job this year that kept me super busy but I have been reading fairly steadily. I hope to at least catch up to last year's goal before 2018 is over.
Re: The 2018 Reading Challenge
Posted: Nov 3rd, '18, 04:14
by Sanssouci
Yet another thing that is bugging me about the book that I am reading: His name is Lord Nicholas Stafford. Lord Nicholas Stafford is very famous in the town that they are in, to the point of having a museum, with guided tours, and a gift shop, and people writing books about him, etc. So they decide that since he's 400 years in the future, they can't exactly be honest about who he is. So they tell people he is Lord Nicholas Stafford, descendant of THE Lord Nicholas Stafford. But THE Lord Stafford died young (he died right before getting sent 400 years in the future), he didn't have any living children, or living siblings, or living nieces, or nephews. So I'm confused how he's supposed to be a descendant of THE Nicholas Stafford and why no one is asking how he would be descended from a man whose blood line died with him. Even historians who are literally writing books on Nicholas Stafford are just like, "Oh neat!" when he says who he is. But he can't have any descendants, right? And people who are literally writing books about him would know that, right....?
Re: The 2018 Reading Challenge
Posted: Nov 3rd, '18, 04:31
by Ghost
oh.. that is frustrating
Re: The 2018 Reading Challenge
Posted: Nov 3rd, '18, 11:15
by AliceON
@MissNikki: if that's the right for you now, go for it!
@Sanssouci: sounds like it's either one of those books written for the author's own fantasy or one of those written to fit into a specific market by copying what sells. you know there are authors writing the same story with minor changes in each of their books. not sure about the English-language market but it's a big portion of books on the Russian one, it seems.
Re: The 2018 Reading Challenge
Posted: Nov 3rd, '18, 12:33
by Akili Li
Sanssouci is there anything about this book that you are enjoying enough to make it worth finishing? I mean, you don't seem like you actually get a huge amount of time to read in, and spending it on a book you aren't having fun with just seems like a waste....
Re: The 2018 Reading Challenge
Posted: Nov 3rd, '18, 14:42
by Sanssouci
I know, I'm sure I will feel like, "Why did I bother...?" when I'm done. I don't like to leave books unfinished though. And the idea is interesting enough. I just feel like a few people should have read the book and pointed out some issues to the author and she should have fixed them before putting the book out!
Re: The 2018 Reading Challenge
Posted: Nov 3rd, '18, 22:04
by jacobgrey
It definitely sounds like the author needed an editor to step in and read everything. Even a beta reader maybe.
Re: The 2018 Reading Challenge
Posted: Nov 3rd, '18, 22:07
by Sanssouci
Exactly! I'm a little over halfway in it. I've been playing a lot of games with kind of long wait times this weekend, so I've been reading while I wait.
Re: The 2018 Reading Challenge
Posted: Nov 3rd, '18, 22:30
by Akili Li
That's really frustrating!
Is it a self-published book, and the author just didn't have access to the kind of editing power an established publisher would have? Or is it from a publishing house and I should be wary of anything by them (in which case, let me know which, please), because apparently they are cutting costs by skimping on the editing phase?
Re: The 2018 Reading Challenge
Posted: Nov 3rd, '18, 23:28
by Sanssouci
It was published by Pocket Books, but a while ago (1989)