Ah, Yahoo! Answers

[naill_renfro]

Always good for a few laughs. Although there are days when I suspect everyone asking and everyone answering is trolling. To wit:

• Can you have 7 main characters in your story?
• Who else is obsessed with the Hunger Games?
• Where can I read "Fifty shades of grey" online for free, without downloading?
• In pride and prejudice movie, i have a doubt. pls clear?

Comments

[mollyringle]

I hate it when the closest search results to what I'm Googling are someone asking the same thing on Yahoo Answers (or Amazon Askville, or similar).

Okay, I've read that Pride and Prejudice question three times now, and still have no idea what they're asking.

On a note kind of related to the "online for free, without downloading" bit: as an early adopter of ebooks, not to mention an e-published author, I had to struggle not to take offense when someone asked me lately what other books of mine were available--"I mean, real books," she clarified, "not on the computer." Hrmf!

[naill_renfro]

If it weren't for laziness and a low desire to smirk at the folly of others, I could block those sites, I suppose. Kids learn at an early age to skim right over them...

[jjschwabach]

* Seven characters looking for a story? Seems to me I once worked on a play where that was the problem -- 7 characters....

* No one,

* Nowhere... *legally...* Oh, you meant you want to get things illegally, and not have any problems that way. Sorry. I don't know.

* Well, yes, there is this thing, you can get it online for free, or you can get it in the L. i. b. r. a. r. y... where it will be only a loan, but both things are free, and are referred to as... r. e. a. d. i. n. g. Does this help?

[naill_renfro]

Speaking of stuff you *can* download for free, legally, S&SF now offers a digest version, with one full-length storiy and a lot of features, for free.