I hope it is a good read. Thank you.
You wrote it. You should know if it's a good read or not. Let me know if it is.
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It is. As an advisory know that it isn't merely an action adventure. It also questions some significant memes like the questions of deity, deism, liberty, freedom, and politics. But it is a good read. I do not expect everyone will like it but I certainly do.
I believe it is PG-13. I have found one error in the published copy which shall be corrected. It was not the fault of my editors, the fault was mine.
There is a very good reason why I had three different people editing. My manner of speaking can be obscure.
It is... But it is a good read.
But wait, isn't other people's opinion of it more important? I kid, of course... You fill me with pride Being. :)
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The pride is your own: I merely provide a framework to enhance it.
To expand: I think an author can only communicate as well as his reader can read. and that the art of writing is actually a sort of magic that is really part of the reader.
If I wrote a true work of art it could only be because the appreciation is in my reader.
They say beauty is in the eye of the beholder, and I take that sentiment to heart. You either will find yourself in the book or it will not work for you. If there is value in my writing it is because that value resonated with you.
The reader is as much the artist as the writer.
An author is a thief: He merely returns to you what he stole from your heart while pretending he is generous.
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Thanks randomwalker! Amazon offers free apps for PC, Mac, iPhone, iPad, and Android that work about as well as the Kindle. Not sure about Linux but if not it would surprise me. It is html at its core.
Also I think the 'look inside' tab at the top of the cover image will let you read like 10% of the contents (should give you over thirty pages to decide.
a sort of magic that is really part of the reader.So the magic was inside you all along?
I think he was saying just the opposite of that...
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In a way isn't it the only known psychic form, that by using the medium of language we gain one another's meaning? That somehow what you think and feel can be sensed by those who listen well to your words, and that if I write my heart well enough you will share the same feeling as you read what I have written? The writer doesn't exactly steal your feelings so much as he expresses his, and if he writes well enough then his words resonate in you in a very real way. We almost all do that I think. And where values differ there will be variance in meaning between us, and at some point along that continuum we stop understanding one another.
In the book Steve and Tibs have a conversation about the Aldebar (humans named after the star Aldebaran) religion (a religion based on science and the scientific method). The Aldebari are infamously fanatical, yet Tibs doesn't seem to proselytize, and Steve asks him why as he and his squadron mates are about to leave the ship. (The Aldebari recovered the squadron's lifepods after the planet the squadron had been defending was destroyed. The Aldebar gave the survivors sanctuary.)
Tibs responds he doesn't use the word 'God' when talking to others because that word is simply inadequate to communicate meaning reliably. If he says it he has a concept in his mind he intends to mean, but anyone hearing that word will interpret it into their own concept of meaning and really only confusion can be communicated with it.
Similarly if someone who has radically different values from the author reads his book they will not be reading the same book the author wrote, but their own interpretation instead.
Well if we extend that model we find that the act of communicative art is necessarily a shared experience, and if you are a good reader you are engaging in the art-ness just like the author. If you cannot create your artistic universe in the book it will not resonate with you and the book will suck. If somehow the author wrote well enough for you then it will resonate with you and your part in the artistry will be effortless, natural, and beautiful.
I think this is a principle all forms of art share. Art is successful communication between peers, co-workers as it were, engaged together in an act of artistry even if the author died a thousand years ago.
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Note: Modulus is undergoing serious revision to correct numerous errors.
I went back to it this morning and was just appalled. Several people warned me by I did not listen well enough. After a break I looked at it with fresh eyes and saw what they had seen.
I should never have insisted on my self imposed deadline (Christmas) but should have given myself a couple of weeks off from the book before attempting to proofread, as the consequence of failing to do so led to a sloppy mess.
I apologize.
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The corrected revision of Modulus has been uploaded to Amazon.
If anyone is considering purchase, if the words 'First Revision' appear below the copyrights notice in the 'Look Inside' 30 page preview then the copy available from your Amazon server should be current. Since I specified the book should open to the content, you only have to page- back past the table of contents to find the copyright notice. If you see the cover image you've page-backed too far.
