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Better Book Titles

Dan Wilbur of Better Book Titles aims to "improve" book titles by distilling them to their essential elements: This page is for people who have trouble slogging through the information on book jackets or feel intimidated by the title and cover itself. How many times have you perused the cover of a novel only to rub your sore eyes and realize you’ve learned NOTHING from the book’s title?! This blog is for people who do not have thousands of hours to read book reviews or blurbs or first sentences. I will cut through all the cryptic crap, and give you the meat of the story in one condensed image. Now you can read the greatest literary works of all time in merely seconds! Take...

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The Conquest: Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows [Infographic]

Artist Delane Meadows has created a fantastic map of the major characters' travels in the 7th Harry Potter book: In the desire to take something of fantasy and eluded it to be factual, I mapped out the travels of characters from the 7th installment of the Harry Potter books. I plotted out a time line that coincides with a map, along with key elements pointed out along the conquest. I really wish a large, high-res version was available so that I can examine — and admire — the map in its full glory. But for the moment, these will have to do...

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All My Friends Are Dead

All My Friends Are Dead is a hilariously morbid "children's book for adults": If you’re a dinosaur, all of your friends are dead. If you’re a pirate, all of your friends have scurvy. If you’re a tree, all of your friends are end tables. Each page of this laugh-out-loud illustrated humor book showcases the downside of being everything from a clown to a cassette tape to a zombie. Cute and dark all at once, this hilarious children’s book for adults teaches valuable lessons about life while exploring each cartoon character’s unique grievance and wide-eyed predicament. From the sock whose only friends have gone missing to the houseplant whose friends are being slowly killed by irresponsible plant owners (like you), All My...

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I Write Like Stephen King

I Write Like is a nifty tool that tells you which famous writer you write like based on your word choice and writing style. All you need to do is enter into a text field a sample of your writing (at least a few paragraphs are recommended for the best results) and voila! I write likeStephen King I Write Like by Mémoires, Mac journal software. Analyze your writing! I entered more than a few samples of my writing (via blog posts, essays, etc) and the author that popped up the most was Stephen King. I was really flattered, because I love Stephen King — not only for the horror novels that he is most well-known for, but also for his imaginative, full-of-life fantasy tales. The...

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