Books For Writers
Saturday, April 2nd, 2011 at
1:02 am
Understanding The Market For Non-Fiction Books
People buy non-fiction books to learn about experiences and skills, whereas they buy fiction for entertainment.
There is a huge market for non-fiction books as people are always looking for knowledge on how to do certain jobs or achieve personal goals.
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Book authors who choose to write only children’s and teen books less Intelligent then adult book writers?
I think its good that they have children and teen books b/c children and teens need them but i think there’s something terribly wrong with book authors who choose to ONLY WRITE TEENS or CHILDREN’S books ONLY. There must be a reason for them only writing children and teen books only and not adult books too. The answer is simple their less intelligent then adult book writers.
Well, children’s books require a separate set of skills. Writing well without making it too complicated can actually take a lot of intelligence. Dr. Seuss was no less smart than any modern adult writer, I imagine, he wrote great classics.
I can kind of see your point when it comes to “teen” books, though. Teen books tend to simply be adult books of lower quality.
What are your favorite books by Latin American writers?
I just finished reading “El Tunel” by Sabato. Many high school students in Latin America find the book in their cirriculum and name it as their favorite book (Like To Kill a Mockingbird for us, I suppose …). Honestly, I was not super impressed.
I have read a fair bit of Allende and Marquez because their international popularity make them hard to miss. And they are both gifted storytellers.
I have read alot of Pablo Coelho — mostly in Spanish, for me to get in a bit of practice (because they are easy and cheap pirated copies are all over the place …) — Please don’t give me Coelho suggestions. His feel-good books annoy me with their unrealized potential. That is, I see so much that could happen with an idea that inspires something like The Fifth Mountain or Veronica Decides to Die and then I get … almost nothing.
SO. What books / writers am I missing out on?
First off, I agree with you on Coelho… although he writes in Portuguese, not Spanish, originally (one less thing to be ashamed of!).
You’re missing out on:
** Julio Cortázar. I recommend _everything_ he wrote, from his short tales to his novels. The best novel I’ve read is “Rayuela” (= Hopscotch). Amazing, original… read it.
** Mario Levrero. I’ve read two books by this Uruguayan writer: “La ciudad” and “El lugar”. They’re similar to each other, but different from anything else I’ve read.
** Ernesto Sábato. Try other things by this great writer… but I find his works depressing.
** Jorge Luis Borges. Any of his short tale books (I don’t care much for poetry, but he has that too). Unbelievably good (he deserved a Nobel prize and he never got it)
** Adolfo Bioy Casares.
** Eduardo Galeano. Another famous Uruguayan writer.
** Last but not least: If you like fantasy literature, I strongly recommend LILIANA BODOC. I know her books are probably not easy to find outside South America right now, but her trilogy called “La saga de los Confines” will become a classic, I’m sure.
Ok, so I’m Argentina-biased… I can’t help it!
I hope you get more recommendations from other South American users 🙂
Any authors/books, writers/articles that talk about how their experience of not attending college?
Looking for an author that did not attend college that writes about his or her experiences by not attending.
Any and all will help, but anything of good length (10+ pages) would be preferred.
Thank you!
einstein
Like the person above me, I don’t think they planned it that way. And maybe it has to do with the fact that when you read as a child you have a broader imagination and so when you read those books it affects you more. Children minds are so susceptible to new ideas because they still contain that certain innocence and haven’t been tainted by society.
But you know what? I read The Giver in 6th grade and loved it but I can barely remember the book! I should go back and re-read it because it was an incredible book. I haven’t read City of Ember though.
How do famous physics book writers (Such as Serway, Jackson, Cohen-Tannoudji) research for their books?
The obviously cant just copy someone else book. Some books, like Jackson’s Electrodynamics, include a bibliography of hundreds of works. How do they even know what to search for?
My partner is a research physicist and he says if you write a paper (or a book) you have to reference everything that is along the same lines to what you have written about. Its not like writing an essay in English where you reference only what you have directly used or quoted from.
What drives writers books such as The Giver, City of Ember for children?
You all know many of our favorite books were read in Elementary school; yet their deep lessons in life stay in our hearts for all eternity.
What moved these brave writers to break the ice of children’s literature? What drives them to deviate away from the child-writing norm?
Let me hear your answers. Tell me, what do you think?