It is astonishing to me that, although I had no knowledge of game theory when I was writing my novels and even though the field did not exist at the time.
And that whenever I have any questions, instead of going to a how-to book that I had from a class, I always just turn to Catch-22 or East of Eden, which are some of my favorite - two of my favorite novels, and that always seems to help more.
If we assume a novel is 100, 000 words, then I should set light to my first 21 novels.
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My books include the novels "Sellout" and "Wink" and several educational titles (subjects varying from drug abuse and its impact on society, a historical look at domestic spying, and a biography of Bill Gates) as well as "Tested XX" - the bestselling history of my rather inbred family, which also happens to be America's oldest family of knife-makers, the infamous Case clan.
I'd once believed that each new year brought me closer to becoming one of the beautiful and brave characters in the novels piled around my bedroom.
Military and police novels by one of my favorite authors, W.E.
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"They weren't just jokes to me, they were attitude, " he said, a tad defensively, when I pointed out that, by my count, some of his novels had up to 10 jokes per page.
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Mr Almond has twice won the Whitbread Children's Book award and has written novels such as Skellig and My Dad's A Birdman.
My suggestion would be a new series of novels called The Nousidian Chronicles by English author Mark Waters.
Speculations and hypotheticals are fine, but given that I run a free promo on one of my books about every couple of weeks (I have 15 novels and climbing, so I can have a handful free now and again), I can say categorically that Amazon changed the algorithms.
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My childhood (at least the formative years) was spent reading novels like Neuromancer and Snow Crash, and poring over stories about a future promised by Mondo 2000 and Wired.
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Around the same time I discovered Forbes magazine, I also began shedding my dark Scandinavian Lutheranism (so comically lampooned by Garrison Keillor in novels like Pontoon), which preached humility to a fault.
Would being a father mean I would have to abandon my writing, or could I, like many of my white friends and teachers who were writers, simply depend on my wife to support me and our child while I continued to write novels and poetry?
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But even later when my magazine reading went on line, for years in DC my go-to time-killer was to spend some time in a Borders flipping through graphic novels or books.
Though it has no shortage of devotees, most people are still more comfortable looking at paintings with a subject, just as they prefer novels and plays with complicated plots and four-movement symphonies with familiar harmonies, and my guess is that they probably always will.
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