As I promised in
this ILBooks thread, I have posted some substantial excerpts from my book to
this website where you may read them for free. (I apologize in advance for the annoying pop-up ads. Perhaps I shall one day shell out the cash for a more tranquil web space.)
The site includes the full text of two of the nine chapters in the full book, plus brief excerpts from three other chapters. Also, it includes the text of the Preface. I added a few other fiddly pages meant to be amusing.
The book is a non-fiction account of a seven day, 70 mile hike in a very wild place in northeastern Oregon, USA. The tone is another matter. I attempted to tell the tale in an amiable and amusing voice. If I failed to make the book sufficiently charming and funny, then it is nothing but a scrap of dull fabric stuck on a stick.
The book is strictly factual in content. Whatever I report as happening happened. However, nothing much happened. No one died or even sneezed very violently. I hiked alone, so I did not even have a companion to make wry comments upon.
Make of it what you will.
P.S. ken/l reported on ILBooks that the site was blocked for him.
― Aimless (Aimless), Monday, 19 September 2005 21:27 (twenty years ago)
Hey, congratulations! :-) I shall check this out as I can...
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 19 September 2005 21:34 (twenty years ago)
You may want to bookmark this thread, as it is likely to slip down the New Answers page in record time - and who ever looks at the main ILE page?
― Aimless (Aimless), Monday, 19 September 2005 21:43 (twenty years ago)
This may look like a purely gratuitous bump to keep this thread in the New Answers list, but I shall justify it by mentioning that, by revealing my real life name, I have exponentially improved your chances of successfully cyberstalking me. Happy hunting, y'all.
― Aimless (Aimless), Tuesday, 20 September 2005 15:51 (twenty years ago)
I thoroughly enjoyed this book. The part where the hallucinatory bats start fornicating with the werewolf were among the most poingnant and funny words I have ever read. Also, I hadn't known how easy backcountry distillery was.
― M. White (Miguelito), Tuesday, 20 September 2005 16:15 (twenty years ago)
No. This is not a shameless exercise in reviving a self-promoting thread. Well, it isn't
only that. It has substance, too.
The ILXor known as Jarlr'mai has generously donated some ad-free web space for my use. You may now read the book excerpts without the aggressive annoyance of pop-up ads.
The new location is here.
― Aimless (Aimless), Thursday, 22 September 2005 17:14 (twenty years ago)