Sentences with phrase «worse than reading a book»

There's nothing worse than reading a book with obvious spelling and grammar errors that rip you out of being immersed in a story.

There is nothing worse than reading a book that has words in the book's crease.

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It's missing the point on a scale that is arguably worse than someone reading the Book of Genesis and concluding that the earth is less than 10,000 years old...

Read a book called «Your Inner Fish» by Neil Shubin, it will explain what the DNA shows, i.e. that is worse than you imagine.

* gulp * I've done worse things than read nakedpastor's cartoons and read books!

Those inclined to argue that Jesus now would advise us precisely the opposite of what he did in the New Testament — this on the basis that, regarding both tax demands and military activity, our U.S. Caesar is so much worse than his Roman one was — these people should be warned against reading Martin Hengel's little book Victory Over Violence.

Thank God for them all, of course, and for that strange interval, which was most of my life, when I read out of loneliness, and when bad company was much better than no company You can love a bad book for its haplessness or pomposity or gall, if you have that starveling appetite for things human, which I devoutly hope you never will have.

I just read a great book about supplements and how bad they can actually be for you, particularly antioxidants, as they behave differently in a petri dish than in our bodies.

There is nothing worse or will make a customer run away faster than reading a book.

If you're interested in reading about the collective set of them and learning how to optimize female skin, weight loss, and hormone balance, for a few examples, you could do worse than my best - selling book, Sexy by Nature, here.

Based on all my research, all the documentaries that I've watched, the books I've read, the countless hours scouring the internet, I am convinced more than ever that GMO soy is bad news and if you do wish to consume healthy dishes containing organic soy, go for fermented soy products and avoid the GMO and processed kinds.

Nor is a boy going to become a bad guy, say the authors, because he reads some of the books, watches some of the shows, or listens to types of music that portray males as less than exemplary role models.

For someone such as your editor, who can claim more than his fair share of conservative and libertarian bona fides, Malkin's screeds read more like something written by the notoriously solipsistic traditionalist Susan Ohanian (and worse, one of Kennedy assassination conspiracy - theorist Mark Lane's execrable books) than something written by one of the conservative movement's leading polemicists.

If you're after a good book to read, you could do worse than choose one of mine!

I've read a few that were far, far worse than any traditional book I've seen, at least in terms of the writing and editing.

especially since I can only «read» audio - there's nothing worse than having an audio book that suddenly becomes a sex-fest while your kids or grandkids are wandering in and out.

«If the book is unique and meaningful, the debut author doesn't yet have a bad sales track record so we can look at their book with all of the rosiness of potential rather than reality» Good... [Read more...]

But concluding that all book trailers are a silly approach to book promotion doesn't make any more sense than deciding that blogging for book publicity is a bad idea after you've seen a badly - written book blog, or reasoning that media releases don't work after you've seen an incompetently - handled press release (most likely, one that reads as if it were an ad for a book, which won't accomplish anything, rather than an actual news release, which most likely will help you achieve your book promotion goals).

It's worse than losing the author to death, in some way, because it not only ruins the book we just read, it ruins our choice to ever read another word this author may write.

~ Bad or nonexistent research: I can't stand stories that show the writer just followed cliches or what she'd read in other books, rather than do thorough research and fact - checking herself.

We have the wagons filled with authors who think that they are going to break big because they read someone's work that sort of sucked (but who is a household name) and they think, hey, my crappy book doesn't suck any worse than theirs, maybe I'll throw it up on Amazon and see if it finds an audience.

It's going on two years, and I've been able to wheedle less than 20 Amazon reviews, though I'd asked people (politely) I knew who had read the book to say ANYTHING good or bad about the book, just a sentence or two, since Amazon reviews, even some tepid ones, can drive sales.

Recasting various villains from the Marvel 616 universe in «a galaxy different than our own», this is comic book reading at its over-the-top best and worst.

I also don't think it's any worse to create a good review of a book you don't like or haven't read when you're doing it for money than when you do it for love / friendship.

Read my blog here (I share everything I've done — the good and the bad), come to my weekly #BookMarketingChat * (on Twitter, every Wednesday 6 pm pst / 9 pm est) to learn from me (and people far smarter than me) who know a lot about book marketing and the publishing industry, and then start interacting and asking questions.

So when I read articles like this, or books about systemic risk by academics that are so bad that I don't want to review them (set them to work picking fruit, it would be more valuable than what they currently do), I simply say systemic risk is easy.

As the book nears the finish Mike describes the value of the peer - review process in rooting out bad science but admits it is not perfect and it is much slower than the immediately available Internet pseudo-science that most in the public read.