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Re: How many books do tou read in parallel?

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From djheydt@kithrup.com (Dorothy J Heydt)
Subject Re: How many books do tou read in parallel?
Message-ID <oFDK4F.A2F@kithrup.com> (permalink)
Date 2016-10-21 01:57 +0000
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In article <e6ssrkFu4toU1@mid.individual.net>,
Ted Nolan <tednolan> <tednolan> wrote:
>In article <nubalu$l28$1@dont-email.me>,
>Lynn McGuire  <lynnmcguire5@gmail.com> wrote:
>>On 10/20/2016 3:20 PM, Dorothy J Heydt wrote:
>>> In article <20161013a@crcomp.net>, Don Kuenz  <g@crcomp.net> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Interruptions do not reflect on the quality of a novel. Because as soon
>>>> as a novel turns into a stinker it gets dropped faster than a campaign
>>>> promise the day after an election.
>>>
>>> Oh, lord, yes.  I remember when somebody lent me the first volume
>>> of Martin's _Game of Thrones_ (I can't even remember the volume's
>>> title).  So I read through it; Martin's a good writer and it was
>>> a page-turner; and then there was some interruption -- a knock at
>>> the door? a phone call? I can't remember -- and I put it down and
>>> I never picked it up again.  I didn't throw it against the wall,
>>> because it was somebody else's property, but I gave it back to
>>> its owner.
>>
>>Too bloody ?
>>
>>I have yet to read Martin's _Game of Thrones_ also.
>>
>>Lynn
>
>It is *very* bloody.
>
>It's also very good, but given circumstances I would have to advise
>against reading it unless & until Martin actually finishes the series.

Good point.  How old is he, and how healthy?

-- 
Dorothy J. Heydt
Vallejo, California
djheydt at gmail dot com

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