http://www.thefineprintblog.co.uk If you don't read you'll be in trouble Wed, 01 Sep 2010 12:32:17 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Shock horror: I don’t think you can review this book by simply saying “I loved it / I hated it” and yes, there are certainly things that are more wrong with it than right about it: like anything that stands the test of time as well as this classic 1954 ... http://www.thefineprintblog.co.uk/2010/09/01/the-lord-of-the-flies-by-william-golding/ Here’s the truth: although there are many truly great male writers in the world, many of them write very similarly to each other. Even some of the best writers in the world can be accused of being a bit lacking when it comes to being original. With that in mind, ... http://www.thefineprintblog.co.uk/2010/08/17/they-who-did-it-different/ Isn’t it funny how the further away one tries to steer from a cliché, the quicker one seems to arrive at one. Sometimes I think all poetry is a cliché. Whilst reading poetry and getting into the hang of the rhyming scheme, it can seem that each punctuated syllable and ... http://www.thefineprintblog.co.uk/2010/08/03/literature-literature-literature/ Re-reading a book that you read in your childhood can be an interesting experience. You might be reading it again just because you remember it being a brilliant story, or to see if it makes you feel the same as it did when you were a kid, or because you’ve ... http://www.thefineprintblog.co.uk/2010/07/30/sophies-world-by-jostein-gaarder/ Richard Matheson has come up with some truly cracking stories over the long length of his career and many of these have been turned into some excellent films. ‘Duel’, ‘Somewhere in Time’, ‘The Incredible Shrinking Man’, ‘Stir of Echoes’ and ‘The Legend of Hell House’ have all helped to ... http://www.thefineprintblog.co.uk/2010/07/27/i-am-legend-by-richard-matheson-a-book-review/ July 11th 2010 marks the fiftieth anniversary of the publication of one of the most remarkable and enduring novels of the 20th Century: To Kill A Mockingbird. The novel has spawned films, stage adaptations and even the names of indie rock groups but it is the sheer power of Harper ... http://www.thefineprintblog.co.uk/2010/07/09/the-golden-mockingbird/ Of the many internet publishing companies, Triond is such a website that allows its members to write on any topic they want, from summer vacations with family to blackberry phones for sale on the highstreet, which are then published on its various sister websites. Triond places advertisements on the content ... http://www.thefineprintblog.co.uk/2010/06/25/earning-good-money-from-triond-is-really-not-possible/ Writer’s block is pretty universal in the writer community. But what happens when you just can’t seem to find the inspiration or drive to write? Well, that can be a very tough ordeal to deal with. Inspiration plays a very strong part in your ability to write, and write well. ... http://www.thefineprintblog.co.uk/2010/06/22/how-to-find-inspiration-when-writing/ I came to this book primarily as a Morrissey fan who loved everything from the lyrics he penned to his vinyl packaging, but also as a fan of academia and literature. At first I thought I was in for a fantastic read, at last someone else who sees Morrissey in ... http://www.thefineprintblog.co.uk/2010/06/16/the-pageant-of-his-bleeding-heart-by-gavin-hopps/ It would seem (to me) that the golden days of Science Fiction are long gone and have been replaced by absurd things like Botox Cheshire ads...We may have oodles of CGIs in the movies and TV programmes of today, but the actual stories just don’t seem to be very good ... http://www.thefineprintblog.co.uk/2010/05/31/bring-back-the-really-good-sci-fi/