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    Posted: July 11 2006 at 12:25pm
Has anybody else read this book?
 
 
"Pandemic" by Joan Johnson and William Rose.
 
It is not published for widespread circulation, but has gotten very good reviews on Amazon.  I bought it and am more than half-way through it.  It is quite good and illustrates the scenarios we have been discussing on this site and the experiences that some of the more prepared individuals in the community have during a pandemic.
 
I just finished the portion of the novel depicting mass panic caused by the sudden appearance of the H5N1 pandemic strain in the US.
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It's printed by Booksurge, which is a vanity press owned by Amazon. That means anyone with $$ can have their book printed with them. There's no editorial oversight and VERY little guarantee that the book will be of any readable quality.

*Shrug* it might be a decent book, but I doubt it. Decent book could have found a home with a traditional publisher, or a paying Web site. (Heck, I'd pay for a decent story about Bird Flu -- I've currently got a open call out for submissions for end-of-the-world stories in my paying web site!)

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Originally posted by Cygnet Cygnet wrote:

It's printed by Booksurge, which is a vanity press owned by Amazon. That means anyone with $$ can have their book printed with them. There's no editorial oversight and VERY little guarantee that the book will be of any readable quality.

*Shrug* it might be a decent book, but I doubt it. Decent book could have found a home with a traditional publisher, or a paying Web site. (Heck, I'd pay for a decent story about Bird Flu -- I've currently got a open call out for submissions for end-of-the-world stories in my paying web site!)

Leva
 
Thanks for the clarification.  The novel has a few editorial typos, but is generally well-written.  It is not King, Niven or McCammon by any means, but it IS a "decent story about Bird Flu" so far (300 pages in).  I'll publish a review when I am done.
 
By the way, not all "decent" stories get published in short order. 
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McCammon.."SWAN SONG good read...
 
as are his other books
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The point is not about, if the books is up to King's standard ! I hear all this  talk ,we are planning, we are in commitee, we are making studies, we are thinking about funding this or that.

Considering that almost no one is telling you the truth, a book any book that trys to go through what might happen in a pandemic of this magnitute is welcome and worth reading. IMHO. If you only learn one thing form this book it would be more than you are going to learn from WHO or the CDC untill  after it  too late.

A Bible verse that is just perfect...... for the situation.
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Originally posted by Cygnet Cygnet wrote:

It's printed by Booksurge, which is a vanity press owned by Amazon. That means anyone with $$ can have their book printed with them. There's no editorial oversight and VERY little guarantee that the book will be of any readable quality.

*Shrug* it might be a decent book, but I doubt it. Decent book could have found a home with a traditional publisher, or a paying Web site. (Heck, I'd pay for a decent story about Bird Flu -- I've currently got a open call out for submissions for end-of-the-world stories in my paying web site!)

Leva


What is your paying web site?
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Hi Joe --

My site's at firefox.org. Submissions link is towards the bottom of the page. There's not a huge amount of content online right now but I've got a number of things I'm working on behind the scenes. Should be more content going online tomorrow. It's NOT an entertainment site, but I sort've feel a moral responsibility to make it educational too ... so I'm doing some things about birdflu that I can shoehorn in with the site's theme.

Pay isn't great, I'm the first to admit that, but it is pay. It is, however, a fair amount of exposure; the site has a very good google rank (PR6) and quite a bit of traffic. *shrug*


    
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