Michael Crighton - Timeline

oh yeah, werewolf hit it there, loved that read "timeline"

Many Wincustomize readers selected books from today’s so-called storytellers, I think all the great writers are dead and the direction of writing has suffered from commercialism, as well as a lack of vision, with very few exceptions. The only motivation for a writer today is whether or not a story will be lucrative.

Let us talk about the way a story should be told…Every time I read a classic like Macbeth I find something I may have interpreted a different way the last time I read it. When I first approached Shakespeare it was as a student for an assignment. My first introduction to Shakespeare was Macbeth …It turned out to be my favorite of all Shakespeare’s stories.

I was a bit intimidated and I thought Shakespeare was for people that were much more intellectual than I was … the more I read and realized what the obscurities meant and exactly what was going on I quickly began to realize that I was not reading family entertainment…This was about murder…. murder most foul… and I was just lost in this amazing tale spun with all the intricacies as a spider spins a web. Where is a novel today that can compare to these tales? The short answer is that the art is gone, forgotten in the wasteland of commercialism and the failure of society to understand genius?

"Will all great Neptunes Ocean wash this blood Clean from my hand? No, this my hand will rather the multitudinous seas incarnadine, Making the green one red.

--W. Shakespeare"

Battle for the beginning-John MacArthur



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movies from books are rarely any good unless you see the movie before reading the book.

I disagree. Lord Of the Rings Barely leaves anything out if you watch the extended DVD. Same with the Harry Potter series. Spiderman Rocked!

Many Wincustomize readers selected books from today’s so-called storytellers, I think all the great writers are dead and the direction of writing has suffered from commercialism, as well as a lack of vision, with very few exceptions. The only motivation for a writer today is whether or not a story will be lucrative.

You got that right. J.R.R. Tolkien has been dead for a great while but who does not like LOTR?

"Dragon Rider series"

Is this is the Katherine Kerr 'Deverry' series?
If so, yes indeed, addictive with great writing and attention to detail.

The 'Sharpe' series by Bernard Cornwell is enjoyable, Wombat.

I liked the first half dozen but by the time the scenario had shifted from the Peninsula campaigns of the Napolenonic Wars to South America I decided that Sharpe was really just too lucky in avoiding a messy death .... sometimes a 'good thing' can be taken too far!
Like all of Cornwall's books these are very good in attention to detail.