Comments on: Reader’s Digest books: Read and Digest http://www.mikesowden.org/feveredmutterings/read-and-digest#utm_source=feed&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=feed The Art of Unfortunate Travel Tue, 27 Jul 2010 16:29:39 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 By: Mikeachim http://www.mikesowden.org/feveredmutterings/read-and-digest/comment-page-1#comment-2182 Mikeachim Fri, 02 Jul 2010 13:02:44 +0000 http://www.mikesowden.org/feveredmutterings/?p=364#comment-2182 <b>I'm afraid I've no idea.... ...but I reckon this is where you'll find out how: http://www.rd.com/help/customerServiceLanding.do </b> I’m afraid I’ve no idea….

…but I reckon this is where you’ll find out how: http://www.rd.com/help/customerServiceLanding.do

]]> By: Barbara Ross http://www.mikesowden.org/feveredmutterings/read-and-digest/comment-page-1#comment-2177 Barbara Ross Thu, 01 Jul 2010 18:11:19 +0000 http://www.mikesowden.org/feveredmutterings/?p=364#comment-2177 I have subscribed to the Reader's Digest Books. I enjoy reading the books but because of financial situations.... I must cancel my subscription to the books. How do I do that? I have subscribed to the Reader’s Digest Books. I enjoy reading the books but because of financial situations…. I must cancel my subscription to the books. How do I do that?

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]]> By: Belle http://www.mikesowden.org/feveredmutterings/read-and-digest/comment-page-1#comment-259 Belle Wed, 05 Aug 2009 21:13:27 +0000 http://www.mikesowden.org/feveredmutterings/?p=364#comment-259 No, I don't think I'd ever want one of my books to be condensed. I hate condensed versions. Hate them with a passion! The thought of what I might be missing would keep me up for nights on end. I mean, how do you know you can actually TRUST the person doing the condensing? Having said that, I must admit to a love of the BBC Radio Dramatizations of Agatha Christie novels. You get the whole plot and solution in two hours. No, I don’t think I’d ever want one of my books to be condensed. I hate condensed versions. Hate them with a passion! The thought of what I might be missing would keep me up for nights on end. I mean, how do you know you can actually TRUST the person doing the condensing?

Having said that, I must admit to a love of the BBC Radio Dramatizations of Agatha Christie novels. You get the whole plot and solution in two hours.

]]> By: Mikeachim http://www.mikesowden.org/feveredmutterings/read-and-digest/comment-page-1#comment-256 Mikeachim Wed, 05 Aug 2009 18:33:32 +0000 http://www.mikesowden.org/feveredmutterings/?p=364#comment-256 <b>That's what annoys me. I wouldn't mind if people like Hugh Laurie or Joss Whedon got stuff regularly published in there. But it tortures me that there are people out there who manifestly aren't funny in real life, yet make money from being "witty". None of this is sour grapes on my part. None of it. I'm bigger than that. And not bitter. I could have been a contender. But, but I chose not to. Despite what I said up there about submitting stuff to RD. It was....irony. Yes, that's it. *kicks stray copy of RD magazine round the room* Nice to know you had the same reaction with the Condensed Reads. Did any infuriate you enough to go get the full-sized versions? (In which case, their business model pays off nicely?) And - here's a doozy of a question.... Would you allow one of your books to be Condensed?</b> That’s what annoys me. I wouldn’t mind if people like Hugh Laurie or Joss Whedon got stuff regularly published in there. But it tortures me that there are people out there who manifestly aren’t funny in real life, yet make money from being “witty”.

None of this is sour grapes on my part. None of it. I’m bigger than that. And not bitter.

I could have been a contender. But, but I chose not to. Despite what I said up there about submitting stuff to RD. It was….irony. Yes, that’s it.

*kicks stray copy of RD magazine round the room*

Nice to know you had the same reaction with the Condensed Reads. Did any infuriate you enough to go get the full-sized versions? (In which case, their business model pays off nicely?)

And – here’s a doozy of a question….

Would you allow one of your books to be Condensed?

]]> By: Mikeachim http://www.mikesowden.org/feveredmutterings/read-and-digest/comment-page-1#comment-255 Mikeachim Wed, 05 Aug 2009 18:28:13 +0000 http://www.mikesowden.org/feveredmutterings/?p=364#comment-255 <b>I've heard <i>Brain Age</i> works wonders, yes. But learning a language is a biggie - and one of my rants waiting to happen ever since I read a book that suggested that to make efficient use of your time, you should only ever use English, because it's the "world language". Lovely. Fact is, a language isn't just a string of works said differently - it's a different set of *meanings*, of new ways to *think*.... But no, I will rant on this another time, and merely say that I agree with you with the whole of my brain.</b> I’ve heard Brain Age works wonders, yes.

But learning a language is a biggie – and one of my rants waiting to happen ever since I read a book that suggested that to make efficient use of your time, you should only ever use English, because it’s the “world language”. Lovely. Fact is, a language isn’t just a string of works said differently – it’s a different set of *meanings*, of new ways to *think*….

But no, I will rant on this another time, and merely say that I agree with you with the whole of my brain.

]]> By: Mikeachim http://www.mikesowden.org/feveredmutterings/read-and-digest/comment-page-1#comment-254 Mikeachim Wed, 05 Aug 2009 18:24:55 +0000 http://www.mikesowden.org/feveredmutterings/?p=364#comment-254 <b>Even books have their limits. For example, there ain't no book in the world that could scare me off coffee. Unless maybe the title was <i>"Mike Sowden - If You Drink Any More Coffee I Will Hunt You Down Like A Dawg"</i> by Chuck Norris.</b> Even books have their limits. For example, there ain’t no book in the world that could scare me off coffee.

Unless maybe the title was “Mike Sowden – If You Drink Any More Coffee I Will Hunt You Down Like A Dawg” by Chuck Norris.

]]> By: Belle http://www.mikesowden.org/feveredmutterings/read-and-digest/comment-page-1#comment-253 Belle Wed, 05 Aug 2009 18:13:09 +0000 http://www.mikesowden.org/feveredmutterings/?p=364#comment-253 I have not picked up a Reader's Digest book since I was in my teens. This is a whole new perspective on them. I usually pass by them without a thought when I'm at a used book store (or think, geez, how many of these are there? Who buys them? [I know the answer to that one now] Get them out of the way, please, and let me at the <em>real</em> books ...) You know I'm not going to be able to resist picking up one or two or nine now, don't you? They never published any of my submissions to the <em>Laughter is the Best Medicine</em> column either. And the pain of it all is that I actually knew someone (at the time - I was in my teens - I thought of him as really old. He was probably, oh, 30?) who actually DID get something published. They sent him a nice cheque, and the thing is, in real life I never heard him say anything remotely comical. I have not picked up a Reader’s Digest book since I was in my teens. This is a whole new perspective on them. I usually pass by them without a thought when I’m at a used book store (or think, geez, how many of these are there? Who buys them? [I know the answer to that one now] Get them out of the way, please, and let me at the real books …) You know I’m not going to be able to resist picking up one or two or nine now, don’t you?

They never published any of my submissions to the Laughter is the Best Medicine column either. And the pain of it all is that I actually knew someone (at the time – I was in my teens – I thought of him as really old. He was probably, oh, 30?) who actually DID get something published. They sent him a nice cheque, and the thing is, in real life I never heard him say anything remotely comical.

]]> By: JudithinUmbria http://www.mikesowden.org/feveredmutterings/read-and-digest/comment-page-1#comment-248 JudithinUmbria Wed, 05 Aug 2009 10:33:12 +0000 http://www.mikesowden.org/feveredmutterings/?p=364#comment-248 The modern version is Brain Age on the Nintendo DS. Works, too, or learn a new language and start doing needlework. I read most of that, but the language and Nintendo info is real. The modern version is Brain Age on the Nintendo DS. Works, too, or learn a new language and start doing needlework. I read most of that, but the language and Nintendo info is real.

]]> By: cj http://www.mikesowden.org/feveredmutterings/read-and-digest/comment-page-1#comment-245 cj Tue, 04 Aug 2009 14:39:57 +0000 http://www.mikesowden.org/feveredmutterings/?p=364#comment-245 It was a RD book (something about the way to perfect health or something euqally attractive and improbable) that finally persuaded me in my thirties to start eating vegetables. Quite impressive when you consider that my mother and husband had failed in thirty years of trying between them. This same book was however entirely unsuccessful in persuading me to abstain from alcohol. One out of two - not bad. It was a RD book (something about the way to perfect health or something euqally attractive and improbable) that finally persuaded me in my thirties to start eating vegetables. Quite impressive when you consider that my mother and husband had failed in thirty years of trying between them. This same book was however entirely unsuccessful in persuading me to abstain from alcohol. One out of two – not bad.

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