@Wildin on second thought, Boox can succ my dikk. They won't be gettin' another penny from me ever again once this joint bites the dust
What happened?
What happened?
Sent them mf a help/support request with pics and vids of my shyt with the two vertical lines on it, and they basically told me I had to pay $190 for repair even though their 1-year warranty says:
They basically told me, looks like you either dropped it, squeezed it too hard, or did that shyt yaself (paraphrasing) so fukk u
Mind you, I just copped this bih in April, and the shyt happened where the lines appeared out of nowhere when I had honestly fell back from using it as much when I first got it cuz I was reading a lot of physical smh.
And this is a common thing if you search both of the Boox reddit subs apparently.
I saw reviews online that said to buy from Amazon because the return policy from boox was ass.
Mine has like 2 dead pixels. They are so miniscule you can't really notice them but I read a graphic novel that had a completely black screen and there's like 2 teeny tiny dots in separate areas of the screen that are dead. I have the Amazon warranty so I'll definitely keep swapping. Crazy, I was thinking about buying some for gifts but I've seen how average people take care of their tablets and shyt and I baby my shyt but I use them a lot. Whereas mfs will be haphazard but not use theirs often or go months without using it.
I'll give it more time. I'm still satisfied as it does what I need it to do, how I need it to do it. I did want to invest in the pen, but I think I'll just keep it as a reader. I haven't even signed into android on it. Just access my books via web browser and downloaded the. And use the stock app.
That's the fukked up part. As an e-reader, it's fly as hell compared to a Kobo, Kindle or Nook. There was a reason I didn't go with any of the aforementioned cuz none of em give it up like the Boox too....it's just these mafuccas screens are just sensitive as hell apparently.
So, I don't even know what I'm about to do after this b/c the shyt spreading like Grayscale in a matter of days
Started off with just the two vertical lines like I said, and now almost half my screen is unreadable already. I was legit bout to cop one of my lady too & anybody else I know who likes reading but fucc that.
Bacc to reading books on my P7P like a peasant
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Dar Ages was long for no reason. Nothing really happened and the deaths were not shocking. Not a bad book at all...but Anime/Manga and comics ruined how stories should be. Nothing shocks me anymore. I just read to see the artistry of scribing.
What a ride. Damn near feel like a piece of me is still stuck byke in 63 too
.I like how King is never overhanded with establishing rules, logic and kind of let's you either fill in the gaps on your own or just roll with the subtlety of it all.
That boi Jake about to settle down with Granny Sadie on da fukk it tip & I ain't even mad at him
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I set my goal to 12 books this year and I'm fenna finish book 5 tonight. These 5 books been massive in the "Red Rising" series. But I will read shorter books soon.
I got the Brandon Massey book which is massive too.
I haven' read this much since college. shyt is dope. I love hitting my book store up or Amazon it to me.
Imma book Worm again
I got the Brandon Massey book which is massive too.
I haven' read this much since college. shyt is dope. I love hitting my book store up or Amazon it to me.
Imma book Worm again
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Yeah, I feel a much younger author would spend too much time trying to set the rules for time travel and it would read like YA.
What a ride. Damn near feel like a piece of me is still stuck byke in 63 too
I like how King is never overhanded with establishing rules, logic and kind of let's you either fill in the gaps on your own or just roll with the subtlety of it all.
That boi Jake about to settle down with Granny Sadie on da fukk it tip & I ain't even mad at him
Stephen King will not get the literary respect he deserves until he is dead.
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He already has it. He was getting the crown in the 90s
Yeah, I feel like some mfs focus too much on the science behind it all in fear of being called out by particular group of people who'll be overly annoying about shyt not making sense.
Same goes with fantasy, and how some prefer the subtlety of Tolkien's approach to an obvious magical world but doesn't necessarily bang you over the head with rules, spells, power levels in favor of weaving the narrative, history & culture/linguistics to carry the story.
On one hand tho, I feel they pay King respect by making a movie or show for damn near literally every book that he writes
but on the other hand, in the reading/writing world, you def hear a lot more complaints about him, but I think most people still think of him as upper echelon when discussing writers of today.
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To many riding on Brandon Sanderson's nuts. What works for him isn't going to work with everyone else. The low magic system of yesteryear's fantasy gave more freedom to the authors even if they were Tolkien clones. I think the biggest difference in baby boomer & Gen x authors compared to millennial and Gen Z authors is influence. People around my age and younger grew up reading Harry Potter and the YA boom that came after. Most of which were ok books but not the most well written and relied on tropes like love triangles. The older generation grew up on Tolkien and other authors who were defining science fiction and fantasy genres with new original ideas. Also those older authors had a harder time getting there work published so by the time they did they were a lot more polished than newer writers today.
On one hand tho, I feel they pay King respect by making a movie or show for damn near literally every book that he writes
The literary snubs still look down on King for whatever reason. 11/22/63 should've at the very least been a finalist for the 2012 Pulitzer for fiction but it was ignored and the jury felt none of the finalist they had were worth winning.
I think there is even some jealousy in the genre fiction community too looking at how few of his books were nominated for a Hugo or Nebula.
I think people assume his books are filler like James Patterson or Nora Roberts because of his output and that he writes genre fiction. I know he let his nuts hang when he got an lifetime achievement award from the national book foundation and I think that was mainly due to him talking about retiring after he finished the dark tower series.
@2 Up 2 Down Speaking of filler books and those who catch flack for volume output; I def just came across a post that showed a screenshot of Frieda McFadden fighting back against the "you use AI to write books" and "if you only write 1 book per yr the quality would be better" by saying this is probably why Stephen King tried to use a pseudonym at one point
So, casual people definitely correlate higher volume = books trash lol. Of course, some will pick and choose if they like said author but it's a predominant notion still.
And now that you mentioned it, and I haven't read the entire series yet, but I remain shocked that The Dark Tower doesn't as get much love when discussing fantasy series. People always see him as the horror/thriller/sometimes'y sci Fi guy and they feel that stuff is low hangin' fruit for some reason even though he uses those mediums to drive all kinds of themes into his books.
And I'm NGL, kinda working on my own shyt on the side while still enjoying the love of reading again, and I'm leaning way more toward a Tolkien kind of homage/presentation than the current, modern day scene so if you see me in the near future, don't judge me too harshly
But yeah it's def all too easy to get into the game now, just like with rap, and it leads to shyt being watered down. Fasho saw this dude bragging about self publishing 3 books in 1-2 years and saying how he feels no book should be over 200pgs
So, casual people definitely correlate higher volume = books trash lol. Of course, some will pick and choose if they like said author but it's a predominant notion still.
And now that you mentioned it, and I haven't read the entire series yet, but I remain shocked that The Dark Tower doesn't as get much love when discussing fantasy series. People always see him as the horror/thriller/sometimes'y sci Fi guy and they feel that stuff is low hangin' fruit for some reason even though he uses those mediums to drive all kinds of themes into his books.
And I'm NGL, kinda working on my own shyt on the side while still enjoying the love of reading again, and I'm leaning way more toward a Tolkien kind of homage/presentation than the current, modern day scene so if you see me in the near future, don't judge me too harshly
But yeah it's def all too easy to get into the game now, just like with rap, and it leads to shyt being watered down. Fasho saw this dude bragging about self publishing 3 books in 1-2 years and saying how he feels no book should be over 200pgs
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Yeah, King is clearly passionate about writing and I would think he would still be writing even if he didn't make it big. I never read McFadden but she has a fan base and some haters so she must be doing something right. But yeah King I think really falls under magical realism the more I read him. I can honestly say that he has written some stories that had me like@2 Up 2 Down Speaking of filler books and those who catch flack for volume output; I def just came across a post that showed a screenshot of Frieda McFadden fighting back against the "you use AI to write books" and "if you only write 1 book per yr the quality would be better" by saying this is probably why Stephen King tried to use a pseudonym at one point
So, casual people definitely correlate higher volume = books trash lol. Of course, some will pick and choose if they like said author but it's a predominant notion still.
And now that you mentioned it, and I haven't read the entire series yet, but I remain shocked that The Dark Tower doesn't as get much love when discussing fantasy series. People always see him as the horror/thriller/sometimes'y sci Fi guy and they feel that stuff is low hangin' fruit for some reason even though he uses those mediums to drive all kinds of themes into his books.
And I'm NGL, kinda working on my own shyt on the side while still enjoying the love of reading again, and I'm leaning way more toward a Tolkien kind of homage/presentation than the current, modern day scene so if you see me in the near future, don't judge me too harshly
But yeah it's def all too easy to get into the game now, just like with rap, and it leads to shyt being watered down. Fasho saw this dude bragging about self publishing 3 books in 1-2 years and saying how he feels no book should be over 200pgs
and the only other author that did that was Tolkien when I got to the end of the Lord of the Rings.I think a lot of people read SK at a young age so they missed the emotional elements and only looked for the scary. I also noticed that some Gen Z people get caught up on the problematic elements and not realize that those elements are in the characters voice. I poke fun at his "n-word" usage but he is showing how white folks are behind the door even the liberal ones.
The Dark Tower was really good but I understand some people's issue
Yeah, King is clearly passionate about writing and I would think he would still be writing even if he didn't make it big. I never read McFadden but she has a fan base and some haters so she must be doing something right. But yeah King I think really falls under magical realism the more I read him. I can honestly say that he has written some stories that had me like
I think a lot of people read SK at a young age so they missed the emotional elements and only looked for the scary. I also noticed that some Gen Z people get caught up on the problematic elements and not realize that those elements are in the characters voice. I poke fun at his "n-word" usage but he is showing how white folks are behind the door even the liberal ones.
The Dark Tower was really good but I understand some people's issue
"And she had a lot to sway." He almost took me out in 11/22/63 when he was describing the black woman on the bus and her cheeks near him while she made them folks give up their seat to him & Sadie
He def has no problem with critiquing certain political or fascism type of bs, and just regular fukk shyt in general, which is also why he prolly turns some people off too, cuz to them, they prolly feel like he should be the
of writers lol. He def need his own lil genre blend cuz you can never truly just pinpoint one thing with his work.
I'm actually doing an adult reread of Tolkien right now which will eventually include The Silmarillion and I can't say enough how much I enjoy both his and King's styles of writing even though they differ, but some of their approach is the same. Like you said, you can tell they write and world build because they love it.
Shyt, ain't no mf reason at all King would keep pushing these 800-1000 books out when most people would have them trimmed/edited/clipped to no recognition