2014 14-New-Authors Challenge

[Mohammad Ahmad]

Cool!

If you said cool I have too much warm soul and I challenge you all, so don't be fool or I shall kick you as the ball. ?
For what you feel cool against me! Do you have friendship with me? Do we have previous acquaintance?
If you still feel arrogantly as an American soldier to take Iraqis into your less consideration, I shall make my pen as a weapon!
From now you are not allowed to reply or I shall give your name to the administration.

[Emil Miller]

If you said cool I have too much warm soul and I challenge you all, so don't be fool or I shall kick you as the ball. ?
For what you feel cool against me! Do you have friendship with me? Do we have previous acquaintance?
If you still feel arrogantly as an American soldier to take Iraqis into your less consideration, I shall make my pen as a weapon!
From now you are not allowed to reply or I shall give your name to the administration.

Crikey, remember what happened to Salman Rushdie.

[papayahed]

If you said cool I have too much warm soul and I challenge you all, so don't be fool or I shall kick you as the ball. ?
For what you feel cool against me! Do you have friendship with me? Do we have previous acquaintance?
If you still feel arrogantly as an American soldier to take Iraqis into your less consideration, I shall make my pen as a weapon!
From now you are not allowed to reply or I shall give your name to the administration.

Whoo there partner, don't kick me.

"Cool" is a term that I used to mean that I am happy that you are going to participate in the challenge.

Definition of cool:
http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=cool

[Mohammad Ahmad]

Do you teach me English! Cool it is not interjection but if it is used as an interjection, however, it does not mean disgrace, but it does mean that you feel discouraged to this man or you are less happy against him or his item does not admire you and in all its meanings it has not any positive sense.
It is as if we almost used the expression in Arabic as we said when we feel the place is not friendly warmth or when the conversation doesn't attract you as you feel frustrated and you will like to say:
I feel cold although the time is amidst of summer. Of course summer is a hot season and to feel cold is unordinary thing.
To look into dictionaries you will find the strange and the non- identical, everyone has different idea, also I can introduce many links from internet but not all sites are wise.
http://www.almaany.com/home.php?word=cool

It is not advice but let me say I see it is better to use the exclamation available icons than to use words.

[Lykren]

in all its meanings it has not any positive sense.

Actually, the word 'cool' is often used in a colloquial sense, meaning 'awesome', or 'great'. Such a meaning may not appear in all dictionaries (though it should), but I assure you, in the slang of English-speaking countries it is often used that way.

[Mohammad Ahmad]

Crikey, remember what happened to Salman Rushdie.

Himmmm!
what did happen to Slaman Rusdie? I just know he is a novelist British but Indian origin, then as I read his career one of his novels " children of midnight" which stirred crisis in the religious world, whatever the reason is, let say; I am not like those or at least I am open- minded, free, and liberal

[Mohammad Ahmad]

Actually, the word 'cool' is often used in a colloquial sense, meaning 'awesome', or 'great'. Such a meaning may not appear in all dictionaries (though it should), but I assure you, in the slang of English-speaking countries it is often used that way.

You Lykern, if you say it doesn't include bad sense, I will believe you.

[Tallulah]

Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell by Susanna Clarke - 7/10
American Gods by Neil Gaiman - 9/10

[Paulclem]

Cool!

I may be able to do this challenge this year as I've got a few books by previously unread authors in my pile.

1) Rendezvous with Rama by Arthur C Clarke

[papayahed]

1. Pavane by Keith Roberts - 7/10
2. Year Zero by Rob Reid - 6/10
3. Bimbos of the Death Sun by Sharyn McCrumb - 7/10
4. The Strain by Guillermo del Toro and Chuck Hogan - 6/10. I received it for Christmas and I couldn't put it down until about halfway through when it started to get a little drawn out. I probably won't read the rest of the trilogy.

[Dark Muse]

*Updated*

1. The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner by James Hogg - 6/10
2. Iceland's Bell by Halldor Laxness - 6/10
3. White Teeth by Zadie Smith - 7/10
5. The Ten Thousand by Michael Curtis Ford - 6/10

[Dark Muse]

*Updated*

1. The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner by James Hogg - 6/10
2. Iceland's Bell by Halldor Laxness - 6/10
3. White Teeth by Zadie Smith - 7/10
5. The Ten Thousand by Michael Curtis Ford - 6/10
6. Jack Maggs by Peter Carey - 9/10

[Dark Muse]

*Updated*

1. The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner by James Hogg - 6/10
2. Iceland's Bell by Halldor Laxness - 6/10
3. White Teeth by Zadie Smith - 7/10
5. The Ten Thousand by Michael Curtis Ford - 6/10
6. Jack Maggs by Peter Carey - 9/10
7. Pavane by Keith Roberts - 6/10

[Paulclem]

1) Rendezvous with Rama by Arthur C Clarke
2) After Dark by Haruki Murakami 7/10

[Paulclem]

1) Rendezvous with Rama by Arthur C Clarke
2) After Dark by Haruki Murakami 7/10

3) Greybeard by Brian Aldiss 8/10