GFVeggie t1_j52vj9a wrote
The Martian was originally a web novel.
Reading fiction is not a waste of time. I have a good vocabulary but I run into words I don't know. Can usually figure them out, but I always look them up to be sure.
One of the biggest advantages of reading is that it exercises your mind. Read fantasy or sci-fi and keep characters straight. Have you tried A Clockwork Orange or Lord of The Rings.
It allows your imagination to take you places you've never been. The Pern books are a whole world filled with interesting characters.
RaderH2O OP t1_j545szl wrote
Wow, The Martian was a web novel?! That is interesting! Also yeah, reading books in general helps with vocabulary, for sure! I tried reading Lord of The Rings, but it was too hard to read for me. The grammar and sentence structure, the vocabulary, all of it. Every other line, there was a word that I didn't know lol. But that's my problem i guessssss...
GFVeggie t1_j56ft8n wrote
Yes the author was writing it and posting to his blog. A lot of people wrote him and asked him to put it no Amazon as a self-written book. I understand it was harder to download from his blog.
He redid parts of it and posted it on Amazon.
When I bought it for my Kindle I paid 99 cents.
Not long after that the price whet up and everything went crazy.
Keep trying on Lord of The Rings. It is an amazing series, different in places from the movies.
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