[bksvol-discuss] Re: fantastic challenge
- From: "Shelley L. Rhodes" <juddysbuddy@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 17 Jan 2005 22:59:27 -0500
Oh, these are truly great. I read The Red Wall by him years ago.
But these definitely need someone to "read" them.
Kind of like the Gump books where you have to determine by dialect what was
really inventive and what wasn't.
Jim I would submit them all.
Shelley L. Rhodes and Judson, guiding golden
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From: "The Pardees" <fpardee@xxxxxxxxxx>
To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Monday, January 17, 2005 9:22 PM
Subject: [bksvol-discuss] fantastic challenge
Most industrious list members,
If I may, I will provide a brief diversion from the fascinating subject of
stripping or not stripping.
I have just received the loan of five books from my teen aged grandson,
who until now, I believed to be reasonablely intelligent. However, he has
become hooked on the Redwall series of fantasy books , by Brian Jacques.
Apparently these books have become a rage with teen agers and have received
good words from the New York
Times and The School Library Journal, among others.
These books are set in a fantasy world of talking animals, who possess the
finer characteristics of humans, such as, battling with spears, hanging
from cliffs, swimming raging rivers and stealing tapestries.
My only problem with submitting them is that Mr. Jacques uses a tremendous
number of invented words, In addition the animals talk in dialect. This
results in a rank spelling rating of 96.33 and a count of 1680 misspelled
words. I have stripped the headers , counted the pages and removed junk
characters, but I am not going through that list of misspelled words. I
doubt if I could even tell Mr. Jacques's invented words from a scanno.
I will be submitting the first or possibly the last tonight. The name of
the book is Marlfox and is in rtf.
I am going to give it a rating of excellent because I think it is. If
anyone is crazy enough to validate it, they can change the rating or reject
it.
Jim
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