An excellent book. Like it's main character it is an S.O.S. For humanity. Beautiful touches of humour and the rewriting of classic situations are well interwoven into the fabric of the pilgrimage that is the experience of any reading. There is much one can write about the novel, but this is not the forum. This novel is as as it is understated. In time it should become a classic of it's genre. Thank you. It has been an honour to experience.
This book is now on my top ten books of all time list. An engrossing read about loyalty, friendship, and the blindness of amnesia in a search for the truth. I was completely enthralled. Read it now!
I wonder if the author knows that the name of one of the characters - Pish - has a meaning in the Scottish dialect of English? It means rubbish or excrement.
As to the book, not bad. I felt that some of the characters re-appeared for no apparent reason, and that the author's religious opinions leaked into the text. But apart from that, very readable.
I have to agree with both previous comments. This is an excellent, well written story with good that kept my interest all the way through. It also hints at a follow up or possibly just another book in the canon.
But it does suffer from bad formatting. I had to manually edit the epub files to remove the enforced indentation of paragraphs. The doubling up of chapter numbers/titles is also an annoyance although just a minor one.
One other gripe I have is the authors decision to use the technically… (more)
I have to agree with both previous comments. This is an excellent, well written story with good that kept my interest all the way through. It also hints at a follow up or possibly just another book in the canon.
But it does suffer from bad formatting. I had to manually edit the epub files to remove the enforced indentation of paragraphs. The doubling up of chapter numbers/titles is also an annoyance although just a minor one.
One other gripe I have is the authors decision to use the technically correct version of swear words. I felt this detracted from the situation a bit and made what should of been a serious scene into a bit of a comedy.
Other than my aforementioned gripes this is definitely one to read.
I am a huge fan of syfy. I read a lot, I literally mean A LOT as in the reading not in reference to my size. I read many genre but I must admit that fantasy and science fiction are my first loves. Cheeseburger, you have written something that has not come our way in a very long time. You created so many characters, worlds and frankly the works that I have not experienced in way too many years. They are fresh, unique and extremely memorable starting with the first page. When I started it I could… (more)
I am a huge fan of syfy. I read a lot, I literally mean A LOT as in the reading not in reference to my size. I read many genre but I must admit that fantasy and science fiction are my first loves. Cheeseburger, you have written something that has not come our way in a very long time. You created so many characters, worlds and frankly the works that I have not experienced in way too many years. They are fresh, unique and extremely memorable starting with the first page. When I started it I could hardly put it down I was so pleased with what I was reading..in fact I was freaking about 5% into the book and had a sigh of relief when I saw exactly how much was still to read and enjoy..YES! Thankyou for this wonderful experience and I am looking forward to reading Bikes of New York next. Please write more. I love your work.
It looks better but I can still see several problems:
- you don't need to repeat the chapter number and title in the text of each chapter
- first section displays the default name for a section (New Section) instead of something meaningful
- and the real problem is that you manually indented each paragraph. That's something that you should avoid at all cost since paragraphs are already indented and manual indents will look awful on a small screen.
Thanks for the tip, Hadrien. I'll do that with my next upload, as it is only 12 chapters -- reformatting this novel at 45 chapters is a little more daunting at the moment!
@Cheeseburger: instead of a single block of text, you should divide your text into chapters or sections. This way, each eBook format will have a proper table of contents, but also page breaks and better looks.
This is my first on-line conversation of this manuscript to mobile formats -- please let me know if you find any errors or formatting anomalies. Yours, CBB
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Sat, 21 May 2011 06:55:05 +0200
An excellent book. Like it's main character it is an S.O.S. For humanity. Beautiful touches of humour and the rewriting of classic situations are well interwoven into the fabric of the pilgrimage that is the experience of any reading. There is much one can write about the novel, but this is not the forum. This novel is as as it is understated. In time it should become a classic of it's genre. Thank you. It has been an honour to experience.
Thu, 07 Oct 2010 19:40:34 +0200
This book is now on my top ten books of all time list. An engrossing read about loyalty, friendship, and the blindness of amnesia in a search for the truth. I was completely enthralled. Read it now!
Fri, 16 Apr 2010 11:07:58 +0200
I wonder if the author knows that the name of one of the characters - Pish - has a meaning in the Scottish dialect of English? It means rubbish or excrement.
As to the book, not bad. I felt that some of the characters re-appeared for no apparent reason, and that the author's religious opinions leaked into the text. But apart from that, very readable.
Sun, 04 Apr 2010 11:06:32 +0200
I have to agree with both previous comments. This is an excellent, well written story with good that kept my interest all the way through. It also hints at a follow up or possibly just another book in the canon.
But it does suffer from bad formatting. I had to manually edit the epub files to remove the enforced indentation of paragraphs. The doubling up of chapter numbers/titles is also an annoyance although just a minor one.
One other gripe I have is the authors decision to use the technically… (more)
I have to agree with both previous comments. This is an excellent, well written story with good that kept my interest all the way through. It also hints at a follow up or possibly just another book in the canon.
But it does suffer from bad formatting. I had to manually edit the epub files to remove the enforced indentation of paragraphs. The doubling up of chapter numbers/titles is also an annoyance although just a minor one.
One other gripe I have is the authors decision to use the technically correct version of swear words. I felt this detracted from the situation a bit and made what should of been a serious scene into a bit of a comedy.
Other than my aforementioned gripes this is definitely one to read.
(less)Thu, 18 Feb 2010 02:39:49 +0100
I am a huge fan of syfy. I read a lot, I literally mean A LOT as in the reading not in reference to my size. I read many genre but I must admit that fantasy and science fiction are my first loves. Cheeseburger, you have written something that has not come our way in a very long time. You created so many characters, worlds and frankly the works that I have not experienced in way too many years. They are fresh, unique and extremely memorable starting with the first page. When I started it I could… (more)
I am a huge fan of syfy. I read a lot, I literally mean A LOT as in the reading not in reference to my size. I read many genre but I must admit that fantasy and science fiction are my first loves. Cheeseburger, you have written something that has not come our way in a very long time. You created so many characters, worlds and frankly the works that I have not experienced in way too many years. They are fresh, unique and extremely memorable starting with the first page. When I started it I could hardly put it down I was so pleased with what I was reading..in fact I was freaking about 5% into the book and had a sigh of relief when I saw exactly how much was still to read and enjoy..YES! Thankyou for this wonderful experience and I am looking forward to reading Bikes of New York next. Please write more. I love your work.
(less)Wed, 17 Feb 2010 01:20:59 +0100
It looks better but I can still see several problems:
- you don't need to repeat the chapter number and title in the text of each chapter
- first section displays the default name for a section (New Section) instead of something meaningful
- and the real problem is that you manually indented each paragraph. That's something that you should avoid at all cost since paragraphs are already indented and manual indents will look awful on a small screen.
Mon, 15 Feb 2010 15:49:22 +0100
@Hadrian : I've reformatted the manuscript. Let me know what you think. More readable now?
Tue, 09 Feb 2010 21:17:25 +0100
Thanks for the tip, Hadrien. I'll do that with my next upload, as it is only 12 chapters -- reformatting this novel at 45 chapters is a little more daunting at the moment!
Tue, 09 Feb 2010 17:46:25 +0100
@Cheeseburger: instead of a single block of text, you should divide your text into chapters or sections. This way, each eBook format will have a proper table of contents, but also page breaks and better looks.
Mon, 08 Feb 2010 21:29:41 +0100
This is my first on-line conversation of this manuscript to mobile formats -- please let me know if you find any errors or formatting anomalies. Yours, CBB