James De Mille - The Cryptogram
My latest gutenberg project, The Cryptogram by James De Mille, has been posted to gutenberg. This one took me about 87.25 hrs, from scanning to proofing to image prep and html coding.
It will be available in three flavours, 8-bit, 7-bit, and html; or, accents in, accents stripped, and with images. There are 52 images included from the original text. I've coded the html for maximum accessibility.
I must admit this book was so disappointing compared to De Mille's other efforts. The first half of the book is good, and holds interest despite its heavy wordage, but things go to utter crap in the second half and the ending is just...craptastic. Also the plot point of illness or sudden swooning, just to pad things out so key facts aren't revealed to relevant chars, is used at least once a chapter, especially in the later half. It grates something fierce.
And the ending will make you hurl the book. Or, since it's now digital, you'll heave up your monitor or laptop...and then remember this is thousands of dollars and precious data in your hands, and the other is just a paid by the word lazy and trite melodrama dashed out by a guy who was capable of far far better. And you'll set 'er down and make up your own ending. Probably involving lengthy torture.
It will be available in three flavours, 8-bit, 7-bit, and html; or, accents in, accents stripped, and with images. There are 52 images included from the original text. I've coded the html for maximum accessibility.
I must admit this book was so disappointing compared to De Mille's other efforts. The first half of the book is good, and holds interest despite its heavy wordage, but things go to utter crap in the second half and the ending is just...craptastic. Also the plot point of illness or sudden swooning, just to pad things out so key facts aren't revealed to relevant chars, is used at least once a chapter, especially in the later half. It grates something fierce.
And the ending will make you hurl the book. Or, since it's now digital, you'll heave up your monitor or laptop...and then remember this is thousands of dollars and precious data in your hands, and the other is just a paid by the word lazy and trite melodrama dashed out by a guy who was capable of far far better. And you'll set 'er down and make up your own ending. Probably involving lengthy torture.
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