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Trixie
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Message 1 of 8 (671472)
08-25-2012 5:41 PM


Does anyone have a copy of the book by Joshua Shelley called "Wasp on the Moon", published by lulu.com, a vanity publisher?

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Taz
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Message 2 of 8 (671632)
08-28-2012 3:21 PM
Reply to: Message 1 by Trixie
08-25-2012 5:41 PM


Why on Prometheus' green Earth would you want read this book?
http://www.amazon.com/Wasp-Moon-Joshua-Shelley/dp/1446785629

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Message 3 of 8 (671633)
08-28-2012 3:25 PM
Reply to: Message 2 by Taz
08-28-2012 3:21 PM


Looking at a train wreck...
Why on Prometheus' green Earth would you want read this book?
I'll have to admit that after reading all of the bad reviews, that I did look in all of the usual places online for a free copy of the book. But all I turned up were more reviews panning the book and few comments from the author defending the book.

Under a government which imprisons any unjustly, the true place for a just man is also in prison. Thoreau: Civil Disobedience (1846)
The apathy of the people is enough to make every statue leap from its pedestal and hasten the resurrection of the dead. William Lloyd Garrison.
Choose silence of all virtues, for by it you hear other men's imperfections, and conceal your own. George Bernard Shaw

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caffeine
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Message 4 of 8 (671671)
08-29-2012 3:14 AM


Proofreading!
If you want to publish a book in a language other than your native one, it is essential to get a native speaker to proofread for you!
The book is unreadable.

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Trixie
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Message 5 of 8 (672069)
09-02-2012 9:29 PM
Reply to: Message 2 by Taz
08-28-2012 3:21 PM


Because....
....I'm in a Facebook group he's in and he's a right royal pain in the arse. He keeps lecturing me about science and he and one of his sidekicks keep calling me a liar.

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Trixie
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Message 6 of 8 (672070)
09-02-2012 9:39 PM
Reply to: Message 4 by caffeine
08-29-2012 3:14 AM


Re: Proofreading!
From what I've been able to read on Amazon, his proof for intelligent design is that science is useless cos it can't tell you what time you're going to have lunch at and because bees don't get paid with money, but with honey.
I spent a glorious afternoon reading the bits that Amazon would let me read. If anyone wants to try it be aware that it can have a terrible effect on you. I had to crawl to the bathroom on my hands and knees after reading a legend which said "Photograph showing the colours....." underneath a black and white photo. Seriously, I was howling on the floor, utterly priceless.
It has the same quality as "1066 And All That". There are parts that leave you a helpless, tear-stained wreck, unable to breathe. I want to read more of it, but begrudge the money he would get.

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jar
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Message 7 of 8 (672071)
09-02-2012 9:45 PM
Reply to: Message 6 by Trixie
09-02-2012 9:39 PM


Re: Proofreading!
It has the same quality as "1066 And All That".
Careful there Trixie. Are you saying there are more than two memorable dates in English History?

Anyone so limited that they can only spell a word one way is severely handicapped!

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NoNukes
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Message 8 of 8 (672072)
09-02-2012 9:57 PM
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09-02-2012 9:29 PM


I know he and his sidekick are irritating...
Unassailable, scientific proof that evolution is wrong would be the Creationists holy grail. If this dude had something like that, we would not be reading posts here about 5 million flash, frozen woolly mammoths.

Under a government which imprisons any unjustly, the true place for a just man is also in prison. Thoreau: Civil Disobedience (1846)
The apathy of the people is enough to make every statue leap from its pedestal and hasten the resurrection of the dead. William Lloyd Garrison.
Choose silence of all virtues, for by it you hear other men's imperfections, and conceal your own. George Bernard Shaw

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