Comments - Books - Duncan Mackenzie .NET

RE: Zune for Dummies hits the bookstores

Avid X — Wed, 29 Aug 2007 01:08:00 GMT

Cool stuff!

RE: Zune for Dummies hits the bookstores

Betsy Aoki — Fri, 17 Aug 2007 18:48:00 GMT

Congrats on the latest book!!!
Betsy

RE: The Deverry Novels by Katharine Kerr

Duncan — Tue, 24 Oct 2006 02:04:00 GMT

Thanks Scott, I'll have to try the library method... I do go to the local library every few weeks with the kids, I just don't usually look for anything for myself :)

RE: The Deverry Novels by Katharine Kerr

Scott Seely — Mon, 23 Oct 2006 12:58:00 GMT

When I lived in your area (~4 weeks ago), the King county libraries had a habit of putting new acquisitions on displays near the checkout desk. I'd grab two or three fantasy/sci-fi off of this. If anything held my attention after 60 minutes of reading, I'd finish the book and then devour a bunch of other titles by the same author. Another fun mechanism is to wander into the local Half-Price books (or other used book seller) and pick up a few random books from names you don't know.

My final mechanism, again using King County Libraries though any library would work this way, is to look up books in the online catalog based on the genre you like. Again, grab 3-4 authors you don't recognize and read some of their stuff. If you 'oops' and start in the middle of a series, just stop reading after 40 pages to see if you like the writing style. If you do like the style, close the book and get the start of the series.

My favorite of the above options is the random grab from the library's online catalog.

RE: Frankie @ Bungie mentions XBox 360 for dummies...

ashley — Fri, 22 Sep 2006 07:20:00 GMT

Type your comment here.

RE: Frankie @ Bungie mentions XBox 360 for dummies...

chay — Wed, 26 Jul 2006 01:48:00 GMT

it has got riting on the pic

RE: Into comics but also like books with more words?

GeekTragedy — Sat, 15 Jul 2006 00:14:00 GMT

I kept meaning to e-mail you about the name of that book, so I'm glad you mentioned it here. I'll be sure to pick it up when I have the chance.

RE: Remembering one of my favorite books from my youth...

wxlhtn6@dmoz.org — Thu, 13 Jul 2006 13:54:00 GMT

funny ringtones

RE: Nice mention of the upcoming Xbox 360 for Dummies book on xboxtoday.ca

udadc76@search.com — Mon, 19 Jun 2006 12:02:00 GMT

ringtones free

RE: Ok, I think I can stop book-spotting...

elqlkub@ebay.com — Thu, 08 Jun 2006 11:58:00 GMT

ringtones free

RE: Frankie @ Bungie mentions XBox 360 for dummies...

Bobby — Sat, 25 Feb 2006 17:08:00 GMT

Mackenzie? Isn't that the last name of the marine that Sgt. Johnson calls for in Halo 2?

RE: Book is making its way to local stores...

duncanma@microsoft.com (Duncan Mackenzie) — Wed, 08 Feb 2006 01:18:00 GMT

Thanks Erik

RE: I now have a 'blog' on Amazon...

Duncan Mackenzie — Mon, 06 Feb 2006 22:25:00 GMT

http://www.amazon.com/connect ... adding books is a complex process, involving getting someone else (such as the book's editor) to sign off that you are the author. If each book you've written was done with different folks, that can take some time.

RE: I now have a 'blog' on Amazon...

Bryant Likes — Mon, 06 Feb 2006 17:20:00 GMT

How did you link your books to your blog? I co-authored a book and I couldn't figure out a way to do that...

RE: Book is making its way to local stores...

Erik Porter — Mon, 06 Feb 2006 12:05:00 GMT

Awesome, congrats! :)

RE: Finished "Knife of Dreams", with a bit of sadness as usual

haacked@gmail.com (Haacked) — Sun, 04 Dec 2005 09:48:00 GMT

How is the series now. It was starting to get a bit repetitive for me. I vowed that if I read one more line about Nynaeve tugging at her braid, I was going to burn every copy of the book I had. I felt RJ was getting a bit lazy at character development settling for charicatures. I hope it's improved in the last few, because I'm considering picking it up again.

RE: Nice mention of the upcoming Xbox 360 for Dummies book on xboxtoday.ca

Clint Thompson — Sat, 29 Oct 2005 03:51:00 GMT

Wow... anything to make a buck. How necessary this book isn't!

RE: Ordered a book from Amazon today, expect a dip in my productivity

Chris — Wed, 26 Oct 2005 08:44:00 GMT

I love the series, but I'm waiting for the last book to come out before I buy anouther one.

The story is just getting a bit long in the tooth.

RE: Ordered a book from Amazon today, expect a dip in my productivity

Clayton — Wed, 26 Oct 2005 06:39:00 GMT

Jordan has picked up the pace a bit in this one. It won't be such a slow read as the previous two books.

RE: Ok, so I'm doing work for Murach's marketing dept... but it is free content!

Mun — Sat, 22 Oct 2005 07:20:00 GMT

Looks good :-) Think I might get the C# version though! :-)

RE: Remembering one of my favorite books from my youth...

Frederic Barthelemy — Fri, 29 Jul 2005 12:38:00 GMT

I love that book, I can remember checking that more than once as soon as I learned to read--from my elementary school library, I remember almost dropping it once (or did i drop it) because it was at headheight and was really heavy... one of the coolest features in my mind was a multilayered image with seethrough pages... then there were the beautiful pictures and artist renditions... another cool one I remembered were the blastofars (or whatever they were called) that lived on mars ate metal and farted their way around... or am I mixing two creatures?--no, the blastofars were furry and around their feet clustered groups pink and blue spotted little creatures that looked slimy/sluglike but in reminding you more of beanie babies, with their massive eyes, cute even, and then feeling bad when you read the caption and saw on the opposing page an image of one of them farting a blast of flame and sending the littleuns flying, as they had clustered there for the warmth given off from the smelting furnace inside the blastofar's belly, but it had no use for them. then there was this guy with massive ears that could close its ears back entirely around its body, looking like an eggshell, and then this guy that was an ice-skater creature on pluto... or the ecosystem on a gas giant with pterodactyl type creatures, and massive blimps guys, and airbore jelly-fish type creatures... the tree of life according to various religions, an artist rendering of Helios or Ra as the egytians called him riding his golden boat? (with egytian farmers below) / fiery chariot across the sky, then traveling along underneath the world. views of the edge of the flat earth and the ocean pouring off it into space... note, the images that I can best describe were all the artist renderings... :) its kindof hard to describe the vast expanses of beauty in space, the spiral galaxies, the quasars, pulsars, and blackholes... the gas giants, supernovas, brown dwarfs white dwarfs, and Class Sol suns.

What an amazing book... beautiful, made me think and learn alot...

The things you remember after 12 years...

RE: Received my first book from Zooba.com today...

Tom Bihn — Sat, 02 Jul 2005 11:49:00 GMT

I was moderately pleased with the service until recently. First, the selection:

If you are female, you will probably like Zooba's selection. If you are male, well, there are a few good titles, but nothing that will keep you coming back after the first 3 month period.

As far as the free shipping and handling, this is false advertising. I've had half a dozen e-mails to the "customer service" trying to tell them that they shipped me a book and didn't pay for postage. I had to go to the post office for a postage due of $1.84. This isn't a huge amount, but when it is supposed to be free, it is very annoying. I returned to sender and e-mailed their "customer service" that evening informing them to expect the book. Now they are telling me they will be charging me for the shipping to return it!!!!

They have no phone number to speak with them directly and I am starting to believe this may be a scam to get you in and after 2 of the 3 books get you to cancel your membership. If anything, they don't have their act together.

RE: Remembering one of my favorite books from my youth...

matt — Thu, 30 Jun 2005 13:08:00 GMT

Nice reference to the Xanth series. Centaur Aisle is the first "Real" book I read and I was hooked on reading (and Piers Anthony) from that day forward.

RE: Remembering one of my favorite books from my youth...

Eric — Wed, 29 Jun 2005 09:19:00 GMT

Yes that book was awesome. I'm going through year old email, of course the link is gone, don't even know what it was too, but the picture of this book caught my eye. I have always moved this book with me through the years, as I always thought it was a good reference. My favorite picture was the one where it showed the stars that make up the big dipper, and how they are each at different distances in space. I'll never forget that picture.

RE: Remembering one of my favorite books from my youth...

Matt Williams — Sat, 25 Jun 2005 19:23:00 GMT

Ack, wish I had seen this post a few weeks back. After TechEd I drove down to Miami to the house I grew up in. I am sure that book is still there and I used to love it scanning through it.

RE: Remembering one of my favorite books from my youth...

Adam Duggan — Wed, 22 Jun 2005 09:17:00 GMT

That book rocked! Thanks for reminding me about it. Luckily our library had a (dog-eared) copy, so I went and checked it out to read to my daughter. Anyone remember the little cardboard model telescope that came with it that you got to put together?

RE: Remembering one of my favorite books from my youth...

Duncan Mackenzie — Mon, 13 Jun 2005 12:45:00 GMT

Thanks Aaron! :)

RE: Remembering one of my favorite books from my youth...

Jason Bock — Mon, 13 Jun 2005 07:45:00 GMT

Oh, man! I LOVED that book when I was growing up.

RE: Remembering one of my favorite books from my youth...

Aaron Robinson — Mon, 13 Jun 2005 07:14:00 GMT

I'd just feel bad beating you on that auction, though...

I'm going to have to give my mother a ring and see if she can find it in all my old stuff.

RE: Remembering one of my favorite books from my youth...

Andrew Storrs — Sun, 12 Jun 2005 00:07:00 GMT

I loved that book. Thanks for the memory. :)