Well, I guess I'm glad he finished the Dreamers stuff, even though I haven't read any more since the the second one when it came out (and only half of that).
Weirdness.
Better than the Robert Jordan thing, that bothered Otto.
Oh. How sad. I think I stopped after book 5 or so in that series. But I was reading realtime (i.e. reading in hardback as they were released) and waiting 1+ years between installments just got to be too much.
Thanks - it was a close one - just the thing we expect from USC & ND. Sometimes the clock just runs out on you.
The back twinging has stopped (or at least not been evident) but the sciatica (primarily burning) in the hip/butt & outer lower leg persists, though better both in severity & frequency.
has Anthony finally laid the Xanth series to rest????
__________________ It all starts with the mind, but the thoughts, the intention aren't enough. Action needs to come next. Dream it, believe it, plan it, execute it, celebrate it. - Wendy
I don't think so.
I've not ready any new Xanth in many years but think from his blog that it's still going.
If you read any of the intro/outro blurbs on his Xanth books you might remember his daughter Penny - well, apparently she passed away in Sep or Oct. That's what his latest blog post is about.
Xanth was the first fantasy fiction I ever read..... It got old after a while (there's only so many ways you can make puns work I think and it got to the point where reading anthony was like this rather dubious look into a dirty old man's mind or something. I stopped reading Heinlein for the same reason.
__________________ It all starts with the mind, but the thoughts, the intention aren't enough. Action needs to come next. Dream it, believe it, plan it, execute it, celebrate it. - Wendy
I have problems with reading a lot of author's whole works. It often gets to the point where they seem to be writing for just that fan. They throw in little writing flairs and things that were pretty cool the first few times, but not the hundredth. It gets old, even with favorites. I usually still read, but sometimes I cringe at the same time.
Larry Niven and/or Jerry Pournelle
Michael Moorcock
Terry Brooks
Anne McCaffrey
Piers Anthony
I had a bit of a Lackey problem too. Margaret Weiss…
Actually, that bothered me about a lot of authors. Very much "hey, didn't we already do this story?" And you could start just calling the characters by their "other names" :-p
But overall, there's no one I'd prolly have rather spent those years with… high school was kind boring otherwise.
^^ you've been in my storage unit haven't you - full of paperbacks, hardbacks & old text books - I bought lots of books when I was in Waikiki and shipped them all home because, well, they were books weren't they? Most of them I managed to give to my nephew when he started his fantasy/scifi reading phase and then he'd take them to the used book store to get his next fix. But I still have boxes & boxes in the unit.
There's just so much crap I can't bring myself to give up. You know, I might read them again some day (sheah right, and monkeys might fly out my butt.)
I'll confess. I bought a Kindle 2 about a week ago. I doubt if I will ever "re-buy" all my books just to have them electronic but at least going forward I can get some of them electronic.
I got a good selection of e-reader books a while ago when Otto worked at Mo (their product) and could therefore have free. Selection at the time was small, but that allowed me to duplicate a few. And have a pdf reader for the touch… which would help me more if I wanted it to. Still no way to duplicate all those books easily, so I'm never intending to try. But if stuff ever pops up for free or nearly so, I'm there!
I like it quite a bit. I'm a little frustrated by the market and the choices you have to make to choose a reader. (DRM schemes, availablity and portability, etc.)
But that being said, as a device, I like reading on it. It is missing a few features I'd like to see organizationally, but in actual use it is pretty nice.
I was concerned that as a fast reader, I'd be frustrated by the 1-page-at-a-time nature of a reader or by the time required per page/frequent page turnings but only lasted for a few reading sessions and now I don't mind it.
Hey, my DH just published his first sci-fi novel. It's called The Alien's Gift by Bruce Smith. Personally, I think it's awesome, and I'm not at all biased :-)
I love sci-fi and fantasy. It's really the only recreational reading I do.
I've been trying to justify a Kindle for months now. I have a fortune in textbooks I wish were on it.
Hey, my DH just published his first sci-fi novel. It's called The Alien's Gift by Bruce Smith. Personally, I think it's awesome, and I'm not at all biased :-)
I love sci-fi and fantasy. It's really the only recreational reading I do.
I've been trying to justify a Kindle for months now. I have a fortune in textbooks I wish were on it.
How cool is that!
I'd read it - is it on Kindle? He might want to check the author's section on kindleboards.com if he has any inclinations in that direction.
How cool is that!
I'd read it - is it on Kindle? He might want to check the author's section on kindleboards.com if he has any inclinations in that direction.
That's the exact phrase I used when I sent an email out to all my friends at work! How cool is that! I'll pass on the tip about kindleboards to him. The publisher has it available in ebook form so you'd think it'd be simple to make it available on the kindle. I'll let you know.
I've just recently (and reluctantly) entered the world of ebooks. Stanza for iPhone (reader) + Calibre (conversion) = me lost for hours roaming through oodles of free books.
It was the price drop that sucked me in. That and the nagging "don't you want one", "when you going to order one", "have you ordered your Kindle yet?".
Drat, I missed that game....
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