David W.’s Comments (group member since Jan 07, 2014)

David W.’s comments from the Everything Nerdy and Anything in Between group.

Oh, darn, were you talking about links to the BOOK? You can google for bt torrent downloads of that book, that's how I got mine to read.

Are you a group member, Laila? If so then check out the link I have in my previous comment—that's where you can cast your own vote. Actually the poll closes on the first of February, so I'm still hoping that Red Dragon would catch up by then.

Aha, found the link:

http://www.goodreads.com/poll/show/96...

Are you a group member, Taylor, and are you on Email Alert? There should be an email by the site that links you to the voting page. Ask the Mods.

I'd also like to vote for The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy and Nineteen Eighty-four.

Red Dragon is on the list, I'd like to vote for it.

And if there are any "slots" left empty I'd like to recommend Silence of the Lambs.

1 Thank you for explaining; I'll just wait for the next list to come out then recommend the books

2 Maybe I should stop using this iPad App to access GoodReads; it doesn't have all of the site's functions.

...So there isn't an actual link to vote? Well then: I hereby vote for Thomas Harris's RED DRAGON to be on the list of our next Reading Challenge, it's a well-written crime/horror thriller and after we finish that I hope we can move on to SILENCE OF THE LAMBS as well.

Ok, I will (unless I can't find where to do the voting).

Sorry, I meant "read them"

Apologies if this has been recommended (or vetoed) already, but I'd like to add Thomas Harris's "Red Dragon" and "Silence of the Lambs" to the reading list. They are great crime/horror thrillers and I hope more people can give them a try. Plus, those who are going to watch NBC's "Hannibal" season two should read the, for the backstory.

Sherlock Holmes holds a special spot in my heart for being the first literary series I've read from beginning to end (in my native language Chinese), after which I read all the short stories and A Study in Scarlet and The Sign of Four in English; in retrospect I realized how good the translation had been, and it was 35 years old. Word of advice: if anyone wishes to learn Chinese by reading relatively "familiar" books translated into it, do NOT read the Chinese edition of Harry Potter, nearly every chapter is riddled with mistranslations, inconsistencies or conceptual errors, and to this day they haven't fixed all of them. And the really weird thing is that they were printed by the same publishing house that provided (and still provides) good translations of Shakespeare, Dickens, Balzac, Kafka and the like.

I'm hoping for some snow here, it hasn't gotten cold enough this winter.


Thank you Meli for leading me to this group. :)