Trab Posted June 20, 2010 Report Share Posted June 20, 2010 Now I'm REALLY confused. The original post, the one that seemed to have disappeared, is now again visible to me. I have no idea what is going on. Anyway, I have the Chapter and will email it to Mountain Dude. Thanks, and I don't feel disrespected anymore, just puzzled as heck.l Link to comment
Cole Parker Posted June 20, 2010 Report Share Posted June 20, 2010 I've heard of selective amnesia. Never heard of a computer having it before! C Link to comment
Mountain Dude Posted June 20, 2010 Report Share Posted June 20, 2010 Now I'm REALLY confused. The original post, the one that seemed to have disappeared, is now again visible to me. I have no idea what is going on. Anyway, I have the Chapter and will email it to Mountain Dude. Thanks, and I don't feel disrespected anymore, just puzzled as heck.l Treb did in fact send me Ch 20 and I do so much appreciate his effort. I have no idea what might have happened with my post disappearing before. I didn't check for new mail 'til this morning. Thanks again Treb Link to comment
Trab Posted June 20, 2010 Report Share Posted June 20, 2010 You're welcome. Actually, I had a similar problem with The Mustard Jar some time back. No matter how often I returned there, no new pages showed up. Turned out that I needed to Refresh the page, although technically coming to the site from 'nowhere' should have automatically given me the latest version. I should have just tried doing a page refresh. Link to comment
Mountain Dude Posted June 20, 2010 Report Share Posted June 20, 2010 You're welcome.Actually, I had a similar problem with The Mustard Jar some time back. No matter how often I returned there, no new pages showed up. Turned out that I needed to Refresh the page, although technically coming to the site from 'nowhere' should have automatically given me the latest version. I should have just tried doing a page refresh. Don't you just love computers -- sometimes I would just love to cut the power cord! Link to comment
Trab Posted June 20, 2010 Report Share Posted June 20, 2010 Don't you just love computers -- sometimes I would just love to cut the power cord! ROFLMAO. Yes, but just unplugging it is cheaper. Link to comment
Cole Parker Posted June 20, 2010 Report Share Posted June 20, 2010 Cheaper, but eminently less satisfying. Picture yourself leaning down and pulling on the plug, or in my case, getting on hands and knees, crawling under my desk, battling cobwebs and various creatures than live in the dark depths there, and fighting with a mass of wires to ferret out the right one and then trying to yank it from the wall. Compare that with selecting a giant pair of shears, happily snipping away, or perhaps even better, swinging a massive sledge hammer at the sucker. And you don't have to spell that last word with as 's' if you don't want to. C Link to comment
TalonRider Posted June 20, 2010 Report Share Posted June 20, 2010 Now that I look back at my files. I missed chapter 20, too. Link to comment
Mountain Dude Posted June 21, 2010 Report Share Posted June 21, 2010 ROFLMAO. Yes, but just unplugging it is cheaper. Cheaper but not as deadly Link to comment
Kuinut Posted August 4, 2011 Report Share Posted August 4, 2011 I know this is a long dead topic, but does anyone have the contact information for the author? I read his story years and years ago, but I never actually got to finish. I would love to be able to reread it again and also to commend him on his story. Link to comment
Trab Posted August 4, 2011 Report Share Posted August 4, 2011 I'm confused. You never actually got to finish it, but you've read it and want to reread it. As I said, I'm confused. Link to comment
The Pecman Posted August 4, 2011 Report Share Posted August 4, 2011 The author's email address is on most of the chapters: duffmanburns@gmail.com The last email I got from him was in January of this year, so he's still around. Link to comment
Kuinut Posted August 4, 2011 Report Share Posted August 4, 2011 Thanks The Pecman! I really appreciate it! As for my previous post, I apologize. I actually phrased it really badly. I read the majority of the story while it was still on nifty. I think I read up to the second chapter that took place during the story's college years. I've been wanting to reread it and finally finish it. I actually only joined the forum because I've been sporadically trying to track the story down the past few years and this was my only lead. Link to comment
TracyMN Posted August 6, 2011 Report Share Posted August 6, 2011 Hello Kuinut: There's two ways to look at everything, I guess. But if you apologize for what I took to mean that you read it before it was finished, and were absent when the final chapter appeared, I want to first run to your rescue, and then show you the sign that says "Don't encourage them..." But you got your answer, and you came to the right place for that. Hello All Tracy Link to comment
photonray1989 Posted June 1, 2015 Report Share Posted June 1, 2015 Hi all! I apologize for bumping a years-old thread, but I too am missing chapter 20. Is it floating in the ether anywhere? I'd be very grateful if anyone has it or knows where I could encounter it. Link to comment
kirsch1391 Posted October 19, 2015 Report Share Posted October 19, 2015 Hey, does anyone have the whole story they can send me? or know where I can find it? Link to comment
DuffManBurns Posted April 3, 2016 Report Share Posted April 3, 2016 Good morning, Angels!! So I know this might be a bit tacky, but I am a tacky sorta fellow, so I can't claim to GAF much, heh. Right. So. I was thinking about messaging the appropriate people on this thread individually, but figured it was more efficient to do it this way. For anyone still looking for FoaT, it is now finally up on amazon and iBooks and BN and such. (Hashtag better late than never, the kids might say. [Do the kids say "hashtag?" I s'pose not, but damned if I know. I can still remember when that was the pound sign. Anyway.]) I mass e-mailed everyone who wrote to me about it, but for the lovely individuals on this site, I'm not sure I ever heard from you. So, just making a quick note here. I'm sure this was not exactly earth-shattering news, but now I can go sit on the couch and do approximately nothing all day knowing I did my due diligence. :-) Thank you for your time, Angels. Deuces!! Link to comment
colinian Posted May 24, 2016 Report Share Posted May 24, 2016 No spoilers here, though it discusses what I think is a gigantic spoiler in the Kindle version. I remember starting to read Forever on a Tree on Nifty when I was in high school. There were three problems: 1) The book is mostly dialogue. Sometimes (actually many times) I couldn't figure out who was speaking and it took me out of the story, and I'd have to go back and trace who said what to whom. This was in part because Joey failed to identify the speaker often enough, and in part because every speaker had the same voice and used exactly the same slang. 2) The songs that are referenced in the story (and there are a LOT of them) were mostly before my time, and I found it frustrating at times because some of the song titles are important to the story. It seemed that what kind of music each character liked helped define who they were. I didn't take the time to look up and listen to all of the songs. 3) He was VERY slow to post new chapters; this is the reason why I gave it up. Now Joey Gumb has published Forever on a Tree as a Kindle book on Amazon.com. I don't know if it's available outside of the U.S.A. It's reasonably priced: $3.99. For a book that is as long as FoaT (and it's VERY, VERY long) the cost is low on a per-word basis. I have two irritations with the Kindle version: A) The font on Kindle is Bookerly Bold; there is no way to turn off the bold. Changing the typeface from the default Bookerly helps, but it's still bold. B) Problems 1 and 2 above above are still in the Kindle version. I've just finished reading FoaT. Not rereading, because I don't remember much about the story. However, I found the sequence of chapters in the Kindle version totally confusing. IMO, it is important to read the story in chronological order, chapters Y1 through Y9 then chapters X1 through X4. To do so you have to pay attention to the chapter numbers. But the chapters aren't arranged to link that way. Because if you start with the first chapter in the table of contents, Part One Chapter Y1, you'll get bounced around and not read the most important chapter. ALTERNATIVE 1: READ THE STORY IN CHRONOLOGICAL ORDER Go to the table of contents and click on Part One Chapter Y1. Use the Kindle next-page button to move through the chapter. When you've finished with Chapter Y1, it goes to Chapter Y2; then Y3; when you've finished Chapter Y3 it jumps to Part Two Chapter X2. DO NOT READ CHAPTER X2. Return to the table of contents and select Part One Chapter Y4; then it goes to Chapter Y5; then Chapter Y6. When you've finished with Chapter Y6 it jumps to Part Two Chapter X3. DO NOT READ CHAPTER X3. Return to the table of contents and select Part One Chapter Y7. When you've finished with Chapter Y7, it goes to Chapter Y8; then Y9. When you've finished with Chapter Y6 it jumps to Part Two Chapter X4. DO NOT READ CHAPTER X4. Return to the table of contents and select Part Two Chapter X1. When you've finished with Chapter X1, it jumps to Part One Chapter Y1 which you've already read. Return to the table of contents and select Part Two Chapter X2. When you've finished with Chapter X2, it jumps to Part One Chapter Y4 which you've already read. Return to the table of contents and select Part Two Chapter X3. When you've finished with Chapter X3, it jumps to Part One Chapter Y7 which you've already read. Finally, return to the table of contents and select Part Two Chapter X4. This is the last chapter in the story. ALTERNATIVE 2: READ THE STORY IN THE SEQUENCE THE CHAPTERS ARE LINKED, STARTING WITH THE "SKIPPED" CHAPTER X1 The linked order is: X1, Y1, Y2, Y3, X2, Y4, Y5, Y6, X3, Y7, Y8, Y9, X4 Start with Part Two Chapter X1 and let the bouncing back-and-forth stuff just happen. If you don't start with Part Two Chapter X1 this means that you will NEVER READ IT. If you don't read this chapter; the last three chapters (X2, X3, and X4) won't make much sense. TRUST ME! (Okay, okay, you might say this is a spoiler, but I call it preventing total confusion.) So what if you now know that Part Two Chapter X1 is critical to understanding the rest of the story? BFD. (If you review what I've written above, you'll discover that "it goes to..." and "it jumps to..." NEVER INCLUDES Part Two Chapter X1. What I tell you is to click on Part Two Chapter X1 from the table of contents in both Alternative 1 and Alternative 2.) If you start with Part Two Chapter X1, IMO you've read X1 which is a gigantic spoiler. It's like reading a murder mystery that starts by telling you who the murderer is and why and when and how they killed the protagonist, then you read the rest of the murder mystery as a series of flashbacks and flash-forwards. I think if Joey wanted to book to be read this way, then the chapters should have been arranged in the order they are linked, not the way they are listed in the table of contents. By accident, I read it using Alternative 2. The "accident" is I went to the table of contents, then I used the Kindle next-page button to move to what I thought was the first chapter that's in the table of contents. I didn't pay attention to the chapter numbers. So, I was dumped into Chapter X1 of the story with a bunch of characters, and their relationships and motivations that I didn't understand, and I was very confused. When I finished reading the story I was frustrated because I don't like stories that have flashbacks and flash-forwards. If you read FoaT, I'm curious so post here to let us know which way you read it (linked chapters starting with X1 or Y1 through Y9 then X1 through X4); if you think you preferred reading it that way, and why you think it's the better choice. Colin Link to comment
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