Time eaters

[Matt4444]

Time Eaters, I've just thought why is there never a reading time on books? You get them on all films, DVD's, TV shows, sports games, nearly all sports work around time and even a working day is set by the hours you work but not books. I would like to think the authors know this and have some magical golden thread linked from our mind to theirs. Where they take our minutes and hours spent reading their words and keep them locked up. For what purpose I'm not so sure! All I do know its thousands of hours of peoples time, how could they use it? Any suggestions... my idea why no reading time on books is to keep us reading, re-reading feeding the thread ha ha

 

[carrie's younger brother]

There is a setting on a Kindle so that you know how much time is left in a chapter or to the end of the book. Is this what you are talking about?

 

[Matt4444]

There is a setting on a Kindle so that you know how much time is left in a chapter or to the end of the book. Is this what you are talking about?

Really I never knew that. I was thinking more surreal really, all our time spent reading their books and the authors bank that time to use themselves

 

[Matt4444]

Maybe time is a commodity they use to buy ideas from the king of ideas!

 

[carrie's younger brother]

Really I never knew that. I was thinking more surreal really, all our time spent reading their books and the authors bank that time to use themselves

Ah, I see. Write a short story about it; sounds interesting!

 

[Matt4444]

Ah, I see. Write a short story about it; sounds interesting!

Thanks yeah the more I think about it the funnier it seems. Could well be a short story in there, I'll give it a go

 

[GNTLGNT]

...they're called The Langoliers......

 

[mal]

Interesting concept...authors stealing/banking time. Some erudite book detective might notice a certain literary style transcending generations and under various authors names, all written by a man who is over 1,000 years old. I like that idea!

 

[The Nameless]

I was thinking more surreal really, all our time spent reading their books and the authors bank that time to use themselves

I was thinking you were high.

Carrie's younger brother is right though, it would make a cool short story, hope to see it soon in the self promotion section. Imagine what Steve could do with it as a short story.

...they're called The Langoliers......

I was thinking of the langoliers as was reading it.

 

[Matt4444]

Interesting concept...authors stealing/banking time. Some erudite book detective might notice a certain literary style transcending generations and under various authors names, all written by a man who is over 1,000 years old. I like that idea!

Good idea Mal , they say all race horses in the world can be traced back to one super horse hundreds of years ago! So with your theory we could find the grandmaster

 

[Matt4444]

...they're called The Langoliers......

Oh always a monster beating you to an idea!

 

[Matt4444]

I was thinking you were high.

Carrie's younger brother is right though, it would make a cool short story, hope to see it soon in the self promotion section. Imagine what Steve could do with it as a short story.


I was thinking of the langoliers as was reading it.

No not high just sat in a traffic jam for 2 hours and my mind wanders constantly! Yeah SK would unravel that into a good one.

 

[Mr Nobody]

Yes. We're all vampires of a sort. I've actually been walking the Earth since 873.

In seriousness (and how do non-writers know I wasn't anyway ), the thing I like most about books is that it's the one thing where time doesn't matter. Well, the same goes for writing, too, at least when it's going well. When it's not, it's black hole stuff ("why is time goooing soo slooowlyyy").

 

[Matt4444]

I wrote a short story on this idea and put in on the self promotion area this morning. Any feedback good or bad oh and thanks for your time