To begin at the beginning is, next to ending at the end, the whole art of writing; as for the middle you may fill it in with any rubble that you choose.– Hilaire Belloc, "On Getting Respected in Inns and Hotels".
Showing posts with label chesterton. Show all posts
Showing posts with label chesterton. Show all posts
Saturday, December 26, 2009
The Craft of Writing Made Simple
Sunday, December 20, 2009
Boldly To Go
I have done it. I have resolved boldly to go where approximately 750,000 other people have gone in the fourth quarter of this year alone. I have ordered a Kindle from Amazon.
Perhaps you will think less of me for giving in to the "Most Wished For, Most Gifted, Most Extraordinarily Unique Technogadget of the 21st Century" hype, and perhaps I have. But it might be illuminating to see how I warmed up to the Kindle:
Nov 2007-Nov 2009 (early): Ridiculed the product as an expensive, snobbish-looking, pitiful excuse for a real book, made to suit the fancy of a culture that has lost its mind but retained its money.
Nov 2009 (late): Read the description of the Kindle on the Amazon site and reflected, "Perhaps it is not an utterly worthless piece of junk made to gratify the vain pretensions of an undereducated and overpaid population."
Dec 2009 (early): Stumbled upon a link to manybooks.net, where I discovered 45 FREE (i.e. public domain) titles by G.K. Chesterton, along with 64 FREE books by George Macdonald, along with 71 FREE books by G.A. Henty, along with ... you get the point.
Dec 2009 (mid): Ignored the advice of my good friend, Drew, ordered a Kindle with free two-day shipping, and began downloading all the books I wanted at manybooks.net. I presently have more books to load on my Kindle than I could possibly read in a decade of leisure.
Now, I'm sitting around relishing the day I'll get to join the ereader revolution, December 25, 2009. I'll post my review of the Kindle as soon as I've had a chance to put it through its paces, because there aren't enough half-baked reviews of the Kindle online already.
The first book I intend to read: The Ballad of the White Horse (an epic poem) by GKC.
Perhaps you will think less of me for giving in to the "Most Wished For, Most Gifted, Most Extraordinarily Unique Technogadget of the 21st Century" hype, and perhaps I have. But it might be illuminating to see how I warmed up to the Kindle:
Nov 2007-Nov 2009 (early): Ridiculed the product as an expensive, snobbish-looking, pitiful excuse for a real book, made to suit the fancy of a culture that has lost its mind but retained its money.
Nov 2009 (late): Read the description of the Kindle on the Amazon site and reflected, "Perhaps it is not an utterly worthless piece of junk made to gratify the vain pretensions of an undereducated and overpaid population."
Dec 2009 (early): Stumbled upon a link to manybooks.net, where I discovered 45 FREE (i.e. public domain) titles by G.K. Chesterton, along with 64 FREE books by George Macdonald, along with 71 FREE books by G.A. Henty, along with ... you get the point.
Dec 2009 (mid): Ignored the advice of my good friend, Drew, ordered a Kindle with free two-day shipping, and began downloading all the books I wanted at manybooks.net. I presently have more books to load on my Kindle than I could possibly read in a decade of leisure.
Now, I'm sitting around relishing the day I'll get to join the ereader revolution, December 25, 2009. I'll post my review of the Kindle as soon as I've had a chance to put it through its paces, because there aren't enough half-baked reviews of the Kindle online already.
The first book I intend to read: The Ballad of the White Horse (an epic poem) by GKC.
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