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by Peggy_Butler
Fri Apr 03, 2009 8:02 pm
Forum: Everything Else
Topic: Worst Books You've Ever Read
Replies: 122
Views: 34382

Got to say the worst I ever read was The Bible King James Version.
by Peggy_Butler
Fri Apr 03, 2009 7:54 pm
Forum: Everything Else
Topic: What does your BookTalk.org name mean?
Replies: 94
Views: 19881

Peggy is a derivative of Margaret which means "precious pearl" and Butler is just easy to remember because I am not the maid :laugh: But in all honesty my book talk name is just my name. Like Bruce Willis said in Pulp Fiction "This is America, our names don't mean Sh##"
by Peggy_Butler
Fri Apr 03, 2009 7:46 pm
Forum: Everything Else
Topic: Customer Service
Replies: 20
Views: 4597

From a business and economic sense, the customer is "always right" until the money has been taken and they leave the building. Then they can be wrong.
by Peggy_Butler
Fri Apr 03, 2009 7:43 pm
Forum: Everything Else
Topic: What do you do for a living?
Replies: 54
Views: 13215

In order to keep me from living in a van down by the river while I promote my publishing and photography business, I am an office manager at a Driving School. I am also a mother of three boys, and three cats. :D
by Peggy_Butler
Fri Apr 03, 2009 7:34 pm
Forum: Authors: Tell us about your NON-FICTION book!
Topic: NEED SUGGESTIONS ON A BOOK FOR A GIFT
Replies: 5
Views: 1819

It is an older book, but if he has not read it "The Satanic Verses" by Salman Rushdie is probably one of the most controversial books of the eighties.
by Peggy_Butler
Thu Apr 02, 2009 12:27 am
Forum: Authors: Tell us about your NON-FICTION book!
Topic: Can Looking at sunsets improve your health?
Replies: 2
Views: 1414

Following is from New Concept English - Book IV Lesson 29 Nothing to do with your health :smile: , just feel it is beatifully written. A young man sees a sunset and, unable to understand or to express the emotion that it rouses in him, concludes that it must be the gateway to a world that lies beyo...
by Peggy_Butler
Fri Feb 27, 2009 10:26 pm
Forum: Everything Else
Topic: Stephen King: Twilight Author "Can't Write Worth a Darn
Replies: 37
Views: 7804

So is the issue with music producers and publishers or is it with the artist? I personally think something is art when an artist says it is. Whether or not anyone else thinks it's good or bad is irrelevant. Charles Dickens was enormously successful in his day, not unlike the success level of Meyers...
by Peggy_Butler
Fri Feb 27, 2009 10:21 pm
Forum: Everything Else
Topic: Stephen King: Twilight Author "Can't Write Worth a Darn
Replies: 37
Views: 7804

I think there is a certain resentment to the pop authors in the same way there is in the music industry - as soon as someone writes for the purposes of the mass market they are berated by the independent press and other artists who in some ways I am sure are jealous of their progress. The cream of ...
by Peggy_Butler
Fri Feb 27, 2009 3:45 am
Forum: Everything Else
Topic: Stephen King: Twilight Author "Can't Write Worth a Darn
Replies: 37
Views: 7804

Interbane wrote:A crappy writer had a story that appealed to a large audience? I can dig it. Art is whatever evokes emotion in a person, right? I own a painting done by an elephant, it's marvelous!
and that elephant led to a mass adoration.. my point exactly
by Peggy_Butler
Fri Feb 27, 2009 12:10 am
Forum: Everything Else
Topic: Stephen King: Twilight Author "Can't Write Worth a Darn
Replies: 37
Views: 7804

I think there is a certain resentment to the pop authors in the same way there is in the music industry - as soon as someone writes for the purposes of the mass market they are berated by the independent press and other artists who in some ways I am sure are jealous of their progress. The cream of ...

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