Alessandro Bigolin Bigolin itibaren Paighambarpur Kolhua, Bihar, Hindistan itibaren Paighambarpur Kolhua, Bihar, Hindistan

Kitabı şimdiye kadar seviyorum - Kocamla bu konuda çokça tartıştım ve gramajım ve ebeveynlerimle bu konuda çok güzel konuşmalar yaptım! Evet, GERÇEK, taze yiyecek!

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Favori kitaplarımdan biri. Ben bir inekim, bu yüzden bu kitabı defalarca okudum. Ana erkek karakteri ona aşık olmanızı sağlar. Fantastik vampir romanı.

Contact by Carl Sagan is one of the better works of science fiction dealing with extra terrestrials. I remember being fascinated reading Sagan's earlier work Cosmos. Flying past the planets of our solar system, a chapter at a time, had excited me as it did the entire world. When I noticed another book by Sagan at the local library, my expectation rose instantly. As I read the back cover and learned that the book touched the topic of extra terrestrials, I had a vague feeling that Sagan would do justice to it. I was tired of the worthless depiction of aliens by popular movies. The best I had liked was Robin Cook's Invasion. Would Contact be even better? Sagan's plot starts at a facility of SETI project Argus. The radio telescopes at Argus — in their attempt to scan the skies for non-random radio sources — hit upon a signal from the star Vega purely by chance. An international consortium is created so that the continuing Message from Vega could be received round the clock. After years of dedicated work, scientists manage to decode the Message: the Message is a manual with the blueprints of a Machine. Despite scores of hurdles and sabotage, the Machine is eventually built. Sagan's description of the eventual tête-à-tête of a selected few humans with the extra terrestrials shines in its elegance and disarming simplicity. For a fiction debut, Contact is not bad at all. The plot is good. Sagan's arguments are balanced. But the thing I liked the most was the way he intertwines religion in the storyline. The only complaint I have about the book has to do with Sagan's writing style; it seems strained, and the effort to add "difficult" words is plainly visible. It is not difficult to see Norman Lewis in the book.

Every day it seems someone comes out with a new book on writing. As a writer, I’m drawn to the writing reference section in bookstores. I can’t help myself. I’m always looking for that new take on things—maybe a secret that I’ve missed along the way somewhere. While I know deep down that the only real way to learn to write well is to write often, I pick up new books on writing and glance through them to see if there’s anything new in them. Modeled on his class, "Starting and Finishing That Book You’ve Always Wanted to Write," Write Your Book Now! by Gene Perret lays out a direct and to-the-point path to follow in order to write and finish a book. Perret’s idea is that no one can write a whole book, however, by focusing on small attainable goals, you can complete the overall project. This is a small book (126 pages) but there’s a LOT of information inside. Perret goes into step-by-step detail on how to tackle your book, emphasizing the need to plan ahead and know what you ultimately want to say along with everything from determining who your audience is to scheduling writing time in your day to publication and support on your writing journey. While reading the book, the one thing that really stuck out to me was that there was no discussion of plot, structure or character. This threw me off because I’ve read more books on writing fiction than nonfiction and, well, I kind of expect to see a discussion of plot or character, regardless of how short the discussion is. And, yeah, that's probably just me. :) However, it did bring up thoughts of the constant plotter vs pantser argument. I was given the opportunity to ask Mr. Perret some questions and my first question to him was along those lines: KARI WOLFE: In the organic vs. outline writing debate on the Internet, you seem to come down pretty hard on the outline side of things. Do you think there is a place for organic writing (i.e. writing without an outline or planning) in the writing world? GENE PERRET: I certainly do feel that there is a place for organic writing. I believe there is a place for all sorts of writing. The reason I favored “outline” writing in this book is because the book was designed for those people who have been wanting to write a book but can’t seem to either get it started or get it finished. Therefore I suggested getting organized as a cure for that. Think through different segments of the book, organize them, outline the complete book. That may be the impetus you need to get your writing through to the “back cover.” One thing that should be emphasized is that my book is “A way” to start and finish a book. It’s “The way” to start and finish a book. If a writer is having trouble completing a book, my ideas will help. However, if a writer is turning out manuscript after manuscript, there’s no need to change that writer’s working protocol just to correspond with the ideas in my book. My own opinion is that it is a synthesis of BOTH plotting things out as well as writing from the seat of your pants that gives you the best novels as well as nonfiction books. I will be writing some nonfiction ebooks in the next few months and I’ll definitely use this book as a guide. Received as a review copy from Quill Driver Books. First posted at Imperfect Clarity.