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Written Among The Stars

I love to read, I love to write, and I love to talk about all things that are the written word.

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The Last Wish : Introducing the Witcher
Andrzej Sapkowski, Danusia Stok
A Song of Ice and Fire: A Game of Thrones / A Clash of Kings / A Storm of Swords / A Feast for Crows
George R.R. Martin
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Stupid History by Leland Gregory

Stupid History: Tales of Stupidity, Strangeness, and Mythconceptions Throughout the Ages - Leland Gregory

This author knows how to use google very well! Some of the tidbits in this book were interesting, but nothing that a simple Internet search could not have found and many that were already known to me at least. But I have to wonder if the editor for this just fell asleep because I have never seen a more poorly edited or formatted book in my life! Maybe the editor couldn't see through the blood spurting from her eyes at the horrid spelling. I looked through just two pages and found 31 spelling errors and even more punctuation errors. I lost count of how many times the word "two" was spelled "too". Often times there will be a few sentences on an entire page and then it just cuts off for no apparent reason.And the attempts at humor, gag me with a cockroach! My jaw just about dropped at this one, "So the term 'gyp' is actually quite an offensive racial slur since the term gypsy applies to a whole race of people. Guess, they were the ones who got gypped." All I could do was sit there and blink, was that supposed to be amusing? If you value your brain cells, give this one a pass.