Nathan Bransford - The Forums

I made it 150 pages into the book and nothing was happening, so I gave up. I mentioned that to a friend and he said that's about when things start happening. I gave it another try and sure enough, the plot began to move right after my original stopping point. As you say, I think he's a literary fant...

Falls Apart wrote:For instance, George R. R. Martin is smiling on his, and A Song of Ice and Fire is hardly a feel-good series.

He may have no choice. It's hard to look at him and not see a kindly grandfather.

And, well, I don't want to have meaningless dialogue with them talking about the pretty trees. There's an episode of the TV show Chuck in which, from memory, Chuck and his best friend Morgan are having an excruciatingly detailed argument about the contents of an ideal sandwich. It's utterly irrelev...

A lot more price-conscious than I realised until I saw this thread and thought about it. Like mp3s, my gut tells me ebooks should cost less than paper books. If I see a Kindle edition and paperback edition for £8 on Amazon, I'll assume I'm being overcharged for the ebook. I waited for Surface Detail...