Thank you so much. Cindy. When the submitter and the validator work together, we know that the resulting book will be as good as it can be. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Grandma Cindy" <popularplace@xxxxxxxxx>
To: <bookshare-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>; <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Saturday, July 28, 2007 6:59 PM Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Uploaded Terrorist, by John Updike
I finished validating and uploaded Terrorist, by John Updike. It was a near-perfect scan by Jill. The main things that needed fixing were, as Jill suspected, the foreign words, not all of which scanned correctly; I could correct the letters on the Arabic but not all the accents, i.e., a straight line belongs above the a in some words, and a dot below the h and the s and the t in some words. I believe Kelly with a y mentioned a while ago that she validated one of Jill's scans and found the same excellence. The book is rated Adult because of obscenities, profanity, coarse sex language. This book has a little bit of everything-a wonderful minister's sermon; a few pages of American revolutionary history; a lot of political and social commentary, all blended into the story of the creation of a suicidal teenage American-Muslim terrorist. I don't think I've seen in any book written in this century as many *very* long sentences as well as similes and metaphors that seemed to me to be like the funny ones students write. In a way it distracted from the story because I was so aware of what I considered not-so-good writing--but who am I to criticize John Updike, winner of so many literary awards, including the Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Award, and more. Cindy ____________________________________________________________________________________ Sick sense of humor? Visit Yahoo! TV's Comedy with an Edge to see what's on, when. http://tv.yahoo.com/collections/222 To unsubscribe from this list send a blank Email to bksvol-discuss-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxxput the word 'unsubscribe' by itself in the subject line. To get a list of available commands, put the word 'help' by itself in the subject line.-- No virus found in this incoming message. Checked by AVG.Version: 7.5.476 / Virus Database: 269.10.22/923 - Release Date: 7/27/2007 6:01 PM
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