Rags to riches? The subject's mother was in England and met the then Princess Elizabeth during WWII. On some important event (?21stbirthday) in USA he received letters of congratulations from the Queen and also Eisenhouer
It doesn't pay to get ancient - I can't even remember how to spell the President's name!
Thanks to anyone who can help.
Sounds like Banadin's Richard Jackson series of stories.
Only 1-3 are available on SOL as an omnibus:
https://storiesonline.net/s/25289/the-richard-jackson-saga
Kirby
Kirby.
"Your homework for your first day of English class, due tomorrow is one on your summer vacation," said Miss Bales.""
With those few words I had to know you were spot on. Thanks very much.
David
The saga is up to Book 15 on Amazon. Sadly, the books no longer are on Bookapy. The tale is delightfully improbable (okay, pretty much impossible), but it's a fun read. Hopefully Book 16 will be out soon.
For reference I'll mention that the books on Amazon are published under the name Ed Nelson and that the 15th book came out in February of 2022.
The story Mary, Mary is also on Amazon, where it is listed as having been written by Ed & Carol Nelson.
Even more sadly almost all the ones after I think, "9th Grade", never made it to SOL, either free or premier, even for a little while :(
They all made it to Bookappy before they went to Amazon. I got all my copies there and any updates are also downloadable. If you buy from Bookappy it will always be available to you even if is withdrawn in the future.
Kirby
Summer Vacation 1959 and Tenth Grade were on either SOL or FS for quite a while as that's where I read them multiple times. I bought books 8-15 from Bookapy and books 1-4 are now on SOL. The problem for me is that books 5-8 (the end of Ninth Grade, all of Summer Vacation 1959, and all of Tenth Grade) are only available from Kindle. Unfortunately the Kindle readers are not backwards compatible with Windows 7. Everything else on my computer is working fine so I refuse to spend $1200-1500 of my retirement income to replace it.
yeah XofDallas mentions they are no longer on Bookappy in his post so I figured they once were.
My post was that they were never offered to readers here on sol even for a short period of time, and there is nothing wrong with that. Unfortunately there's no $$$ in my budget to buy books, go to movies and things like that.
SS
Even more sadly almost all the ones after I think, "9th Grade", never made it to SOL, either free or premier, even for a little while :(
Originally only 4 stories:
1) My Summer Vacation 1958
2) Ninth Grade 1958-1959
3) Summer Vacation 1959
4) Tenth Grade 1959
He then integrated 1) into 2)
When he decided to go to Amazon he removed the stories from finestories and SOL, to split them into 7 books with shorter chapters. The next book (now numbered 8) Oxford University (39 chapters) was for a short time here on SOL (I downloaded all chapters 2020-07-14).
He finally posted books 1-3 again here on SOL.
The new Book 3 ends with Chapter 47. Compared to the older version 'Ninth Grade 1958-1959'
there it's the end of Chapter 26 and still ⅓ to go (total 39 chapters).
Guessing based on 4 more books till Book 8 Oxford University:
Book 4 contains the last third of 'Ninth Grade',
Book 5 'Summer Vacation 1959'
Book 6 + 7 'Tenth Grade 1959'
HM.
I couldn't remember the order they came out or which was the last one I read here on sol, I think 10th grade if it was posted here but can't remember any details about it.
Last one I remember anything about is summer vacation 1959 and him going on a ship to Argentina and another country or 2 before ending up in Britain.
Unfortunately no $$$ in my budget to buy books
SS
Yup. But I've found books from the 1920s & 1930s that aren't on the internet archive, so I'll continue to use it when needed. Not using the authors full name or the full book title will sometimes work when using the full name and title gives a list of standards for concrete in construction, no matter the actual topic at hand. I Guess the AI serving the requests wants to reincarnate as a bricklayer.
I suggest you delete this post. Posting links to other sites falls outside the forum rules and more generally the majority of contributors to the forum are authors who hate seeing their stories stolen / distributed without their OK.
Send a PM if you want to share an off site link.
I had looked at that link before it was deleted and am pretty sure that the site is a known plagiarism site which has been mentioned in this Forum in the past.
My browser recognised it and even had a value stored for the Search field.
Its a valuable resource for rare, out of print and out of copyright books. Its also the equivalent of the Piratebay for modern works.
Back when asstr worked. 😟
you know its bad when windows search of an FTP mirror of the site is better than the sites search.
You know that one way of searching a site is
site:storiesonline.net narnia
which only looks on the named site.
(I was expecting Bec4 to be the only find)
The post Radagast refers to here appears to have been deleted either by the poster or by Laz. I just saw a story on a news comment channel that the now unnamed site has been seized by the Feds
I just saw a story on a news comment channel that the now unnamed site has been seized by the Feds
OMG, they must suspect the site owners of being Donald Trump supporters.
AJ
... Eastern District of New-York, Unfortunately, as usual their effort had no effect.
The web site is still up and running.
If they go to trial they will loose. Because there was no copyright infringement on the domain seized just link to infringing content.
Just as Trump is still not in prison after a lifetime of criminal conduct.
The web site is still up and running.
But access to its content is somewhat restricted:
Z-library website is currently available only in Tor network. You can find out more and download Tor browser.
BTW, the quality of the content offered by Z-library is very mixed. I checked out some books where I own the printed version and found badly scanned, nearly unreadably ones and copies of the original eBook edition.
An example is Anne McCaffrey and S.M. Sterling's "The City Who Fought". z-lib has it in two versions, the single book and the Baen omnibus edition 'The City and the Ship'. The City and the Ship is obviously an illegal copy of Baen's eBook edition. The other version is created from a plain text version with line breaks and words at the end of the line broken with hyphens. (the raw scanned text broken into lines of equal length.) Those lines were transferred to HTML by enclosing every single line in < p> < /p>, making them paragraphs with space between each line. That the ripper didn't use a spell checker adds to the disgusting result:
'Hie' instead of 'The'; ' N ' or 'N' instead of an em-dash; 'fens' instead of 'fans'.
I stopped reading and checking within the first page.
In S.M. Sterling's Conquistador is stated:
Scanned by Highroller.
Proofed by Highroller.
Made prettier by use of EBook Design Group Stylesheet.
Very few scan errors, some sentences are broken up into two paragraphs, some of the original paragraphs split into two.
I looked into the generated html and realized that somewhere in the process em-dashes in an italic text were regarded as non-italic and therefor italic turned off before the em-dash and turned on again afterwards.
HM.
And the story continues. According to a DOJ press release yesterday they have seized more of the sites channels and the two principals are under arrest in Argentina on US warrants.
The message now says:
Z-Library website is currently available only in Tor and I2P network. You can find out more and download Tor or I2P browser.
I didn't try either link provided.
HM.
And what criminal conduct has been proven against him?
Quid pro quo w ukraine nope that was Biden.
Destroyed classified documents or illegal storage of classified emails nope that was killiary.
Number of associates to die under mysterious circumstances nope that's the Clinton's.
Russian collusion nope that was all lies paid for by killiary.
Sooo.....?
The man had Secret documents sitting in a box in a store room. There is a process to be followed with any secret document. From the time it is SIGNED OUT of secure storage it will remain in the possession of a person with the appropriate secret security clearance until such time as it is returned and SIGNED BACK IN to secure storage. And just as there is a process for declaring a document to be SECRET, there is a process for removing that classification. NO ONE can simply say 'This is no longer secret.' Go look up the Pentagon Papers or Wikileaks.
When arguing on the internet, the ONLY thing you can prove is the existence of two or more idiots; ignore the dumbass' and save your energy for more productive activities; don't play down to their level.
