If you use Calibre, be very careful which plugins you install. I hear that one them will cause a problem where the DRM ends up removed from an e-book and one might not want such an untoward event to happen.
“…and then I (the storyteller) woke up” is a dramatic plot twist (see The Wizard of Oz, Dallas cliffhanger). In this case, “and then I (the reader) went to sleep” provides a surprise twist to the book.
@billybob: ““…and then I (the storyteller) woke up” is a dramatic plot twist (see The Wizard of Oz, Dallas cliffhanger).”
Or, a few centuries earlier, see PILGRIM’S PROGRESS. And many earlier and many many later examples, some noted here: https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/AllJustADream/Literature
(though I’ll admit I’d not previously heard that theory about THE AENEID).
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The dramatic plot twist was that the parent, not the child was the one that fell asleep.
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Yep. Incidentally, Don Quixote seems a rather thick book for a bedtime story.
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” Don Quixote seems a rather thick book for a bedtime story.”
Any book can be a bedtime story, if you read it at bedtime.
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Yeah, my current bedtime story is Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix. It’s taking forever.
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Yeah here, too. Nothing gets an intelligent kid to want bedtime more than a very good book, broken up into chapters/bite-size pieces.
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If you want a bedtime book for grownups … (sounds of a scuffle and a door slamming)
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MinorAnnoyance: can I pay you directly for a non-DRM’d version? I tried to buy it, but all the versions are DRM’d and I don’t play that…
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If you use Calibre, be very careful which plugins you install. I hear that one them will cause a problem where the DRM ends up removed from an e-book and one might not want such an untoward event to happen.
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“…and then I (the storyteller) woke up” is a dramatic plot twist (see The Wizard of Oz, Dallas cliffhanger). In this case, “and then I (the reader) went to sleep” provides a surprise twist to the book.
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@billybob: ““…and then I (the storyteller) woke up” is a dramatic plot twist (see The Wizard of Oz, Dallas cliffhanger).”
Or, a few centuries earlier, see PILGRIM’S PROGRESS. And many earlier and many many later examples, some noted here:
https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/AllJustADream/Literature
(though I’ll admit I’d not previously heard that theory about THE AENEID).
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Also, the “it was just a dream” ending in WIZARD OF OZ applies only to the movie, not to the original novel, where the adventures are “real.”
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The Pilgrim’s Progress was all a dream?
Okay, no point reading it now.
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Lark: How about a PDF?
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MinorAnnoyance: without DRM? I’ll take it!
(With DRM, you are obliged to register with Adobe, even if you use the plugins to Calibre Brian alludes to…)
If you use my comment scraper, you can email me at the domain it uses with the username I use here…
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Lark (and other interested parties): “Her Temporary Prince” has a public Facebook page where you can message me.
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“The ‘it was just a dream’ ending in WIZARD OF OZ applies only to the movie…”
That’s why the movie didn’t have 39 sequels.
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“That’s why the movie didn’t have 39 sequels.”
Give Disney time.
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The “it was all a dream” ending doesn’t stop something from having lots of sequels.
The comic strip “Little Nemo in Slumberland” kept going on this for years.
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