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| First post | 2016-10-13 04:22 -0700 |
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How many books do tou read in parallel? alal65536@gmail.com - 2016-10-13 04:22 -0700
Re: How many books do tou read in parallel? Lynn McGuire <lynnmcguire5@gmail.com> - 2016-10-13 12:36 -0500
Re: How many books do tou read in parallel? Gene Wirchenko <genew@telus.net> - 2016-10-14 00:40 -0700
Re: How many books do tou read in parallel? alal65536@gmail.com - 2016-10-14 01:44 -0700
Re: How many books do tou read in parallel? mcdowell_ag@sky.com - 2016-10-13 11:34 -0700
Re: How many books do tou read in parallel? djheydt@kithrup.com (Dorothy J Heydt) - 2016-10-13 21:57 +0000
Re: How many books do tou read in parallel? jdnicoll@panix.com (James Nicoll) - 2016-10-13 18:52 +0000
Re: How many books do tou read in parallel? Lynn McGuire <lynnmcguire5@gmail.com> - 2016-10-13 15:36 -0500
Re: How many books do tou read in parallel? jdnicoll@panix.com (James Nicoll) - 2016-10-14 01:25 +0000
Re: How many books do tou read in parallel? Lynn McGuire <lynnmcguire5@gmail.com> - 2016-10-14 13:05 -0500
Re: How many books do tou read in parallel? jdnicoll@panix.com (James Nicoll) - 2016-10-16 20:21 +0000
Re: How many books do tou read in parallel? Lynn McGuire <lynnmcguire5@gmail.com> - 2016-10-16 19:12 -0500
Re: How many books do tou read in parallel? jdnicoll@panix.com (James Nicoll) - 2016-10-17 02:55 +0000
Re: How many books do tou read in parallel? nance@math.ohio-state.edu (Anthony Nance) - 2016-10-17 13:47 +0000
Re: How many books do tou read in parallel? Joe Bernstein <joe@sfbooks.com> - 2016-10-17 09:13 -0700
Re: How many books do tou read in parallel? jdnicoll@panix.com (James Nicoll) - 2016-10-17 16:34 +0000
Re: How many books do tou read in parallel? Lawrence Watt-Evans <lwe@sff.net> - 2016-10-17 13:52 -0400
Re: How many books do tou read in parallel? nance@math.ohio-state.edu (Anthony Nance) - 2016-10-17 17:55 +0000
Re: How many books do tou read in parallel? "Brian M. Scott" <b.scott@csuohio.edu> - 2016-10-17 14:13 -0400
Re: How many books do tou read in parallel? David DeLaney <daviddelaney@earthlink.net> - 2016-10-18 02:37 -0500
Re: How many books do tou read in parallel? Lynn McGuire <lynnmcguire5@gmail.com> - 2016-10-22 22:25 -0500
Re: How many books do tou read in parallel? Lynn McGuire <lynnmcguire5@gmail.com> - 2016-10-22 22:22 -0500
Re: How many books do tou read in parallel? David DeLaney <daviddelaney@earthlink.net> - 2016-10-14 18:43 -0500
Re: How many books do tou read in parallel? Wayne Brown <fwbrown@bellsouth.net> - 2016-10-13 20:01 +0000
Re: How many books do tou read in parallel? Don Kuenz <g@crcomp.net> - 2016-10-14 00:26 +0000
Re: How many books do tou read in parallel? Wayne Brown <fwbrown@bellsouth.net> - 2016-10-20 19:57 +0000
Re: How many books do tou read in parallel? djheydt@kithrup.com (Dorothy J Heydt) - 2016-10-20 20:20 +0000
Re: How many books do tou read in parallel? Lawrence Watt-Evans <lwe@sff.net> - 2016-10-20 16:48 -0400
Re: How many books do tou read in parallel? djheydt@kithrup.com (Dorothy J Heydt) - 2016-10-20 21:27 +0000
Re: How many books do tou read in parallel? Moriarty <blues95@ivillage.com> - 2016-10-20 17:09 -0700
Re: How many books do tou read in parallel? David DeLaney <daviddelaney@earthlink.net> - 2016-10-21 03:02 -0500
Re: How many books do tou read in parallel? Peter Trei <petertrei@gmail.com> - 2016-10-21 06:04 -0700
Re: How many books do tou read in parallel? Lynn McGuire <lynnmcguire5@gmail.com> - 2016-10-20 15:50 -0500
Re: How many books do tou read in parallel? djheydt@kithrup.com (Dorothy J Heydt) - 2016-10-20 21:28 +0000
Re: How many books do tou read in parallel? Lynn McGuire <lynnmcguire5@gmail.com> - 2016-10-20 16:51 -0500
Re: How many books do tou read in parallel? djheydt@kithrup.com (Dorothy J Heydt) - 2016-10-20 21:56 +0000
Re: How many books do tou read in parallel? ted@loft.tnolan.com (Ted Nolan <tednolan>) - 2016-10-20 21:56 +0000
Re: How many books do tou read in parallel? David Johnston <Davidjohnston29@yahoo.com> - 2016-10-20 15:59 -0600
Re: How many books do tou read in parallel? djheydt@kithrup.com (Dorothy J Heydt) - 2016-10-21 01:57 +0000
Re: How many books do tou read in parallel? William Hyde <wthyde1953@gmail.com> - 2016-10-20 20:23 -0700
Re: How many books do tou read in parallel? Lawrence Watt-Evans <lwe@sff.net> - 2016-10-21 00:47 -0400
Re: How many books do tou read in parallel? djheydt@kithrup.com (Dorothy J Heydt) - 2016-10-21 05:25 +0000
Re: How many books do tou read in parallel? ted@loft.tnolan.com (Ted Nolan <tednolan>) - 2016-10-21 05:36 +0000
Re: How many books do tou read in parallel? djheydt@kithrup.com (Dorothy J Heydt) - 2016-10-21 12:46 +0000
Re: How many books do tou read in parallel? Peter Trei <petertrei@gmail.com> - 2016-10-21 06:07 -0700
Re: How many books do tou read in parallel? goldfarb@ocf.berkeley.edu (David Goldfarb) - 2016-10-23 03:06 +0000
Re: How many books do tou read in parallel? William Hyde <wthyde1953@gmail.com> - 2016-10-13 15:17 -0700
Re: How many books do tou read in parallel? djheydt@kithrup.com (Dorothy J Heydt) - 2016-10-14 04:28 +0000
Re: How many books do tou read in parallel? Lawrence Watt-Evans <lwe@sff.net> - 2016-10-14 01:18 -0400
Re: How many books do tou read in parallel? djheydt@kithrup.com (Dorothy J Heydt) - 2016-10-14 12:48 +0000
Re: How many books do tou read in parallel? Cryptoengineer <treifamily@gmail.com> - 2016-10-14 10:25 -0500
Re: How many books do tou read in parallel? Greg Goss <gossg@gossg.org> - 2016-10-19 08:21 -0600
Re: How many books do tou read in parallel? William Hyde <wthyde1953@gmail.com> - 2016-10-15 13:30 -0700
Re: How many books do tou read in parallel? "Brian M. Scott" <b.scott@csuohio.edu> - 2016-10-16 01:33 -0400
Re: How many books do tou read in parallel? Robert Carnegie <rja.carnegie@excite.com> - 2016-10-16 02:44 -0700
Re: How many books do tou read in parallel? William Hyde <wthyde1953@gmail.com> - 2016-10-17 12:27 -0700
Re: How many books do tou read in parallel? Robert Carnegie <rja.carnegie@excite.com> - 2016-10-13 18:29 -0700
Re: How many books do tou read in parallel? "Brian M. Scott" <b.scott@csuohio.edu> - 2016-10-14 09:36 -0400
Re: How many books do tou read in parallel? ted@loft.tnolan.com (Ted Nolan <tednolan>) - 2016-10-14 17:22 +0000
Re: How many books do tou read in parallel? Jaimie Vandenbergh <jaimie@sometimes.sessile.org> - 2016-10-14 20:33 +0100
Re: How many books do tou read in parallel? "Brian M. Scott" <b.scott@csuohio.edu> - 2016-10-14 16:09 -0400
Re: How many books do tou read in parallel? Gutless Umbrella Carrying Sissy <taustinca@gmail.com> - 2016-10-14 13:15 -0700
Re: How many books do tou read in parallel? Greg Goss <gossg@gossg.org> - 2016-10-20 08:53 -0600
Re: How many books do tou read in parallel? ted@loft.tnolan.com (Ted Nolan <tednolan>) - 2016-10-14 21:41 +0000
Re: How many books do tou read in parallel? David DeLaney <daviddelaney@earthlink.net> - 2016-10-14 18:45 -0500
Re: How many books do tou read in parallel? djheydt@kithrup.com (Dorothy J Heydt) - 2016-10-14 22:29 +0000
Re: How many books do tou read in parallel? Kevrob <kevrob@my-deja.com> - 2016-10-14 16:52 -0700
Re: How many books do tou read in parallel? nance@math.ohio-state.edu (Anthony Nance) - 2016-10-18 14:27 +0000
Re: How many books do tou read in parallel? Joe Bernstein <joe@sfbooks.com> - 2016-10-14 09:33 -0700
Re: How many books do tou read in parallel? Default User <defaultuserbr@yahoo.com> - 2016-10-15 09:18 -0700
Re: How many books do tou read in parallel? "J. Clarke" <j.clarke.873638@gmail.com> - 2016-10-15 12:49 -0400
Re: How many books do tou read in parallel? hamish.laws@gmail.com - 2016-10-15 17:40 -0700
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| From | Lynn McGuire <lynnmcguire5@gmail.com> |
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| Date | 2016-10-22 22:25 -0500 |
| Message-ID | <nuhaif$phm$2@dont-email.me> |
| In reply to | #454403 |
On 10/18/2016 2:37 AM, David DeLaney wrote:
> On 2016-10-17, Anthony Nance <nance@math.ohio-state.edu> wrote:
>> Lynn McGuire <lynnmcguire5@gmail.com> wrote:
>>> BTW, I never knew that Tanith Lee had so many books. I only have one.
>>> Looks very lonely between my many Sharon Lee books and Rush Limbaugh book.
>>
>> I envy your opportunities to read works by Leiber, Leinster,
>> and Lem for the first time.
>
> Also L'Engle and at least a couple of Lessing, not to mention Lewis,
> Lichtenberg (& Lorrah), and oh dear Lindgren is on the other side of Rush
> I'll just let myself out now.
>
> Dave, Lindskold! Lisle! Lofting! Long! Longye... {is dragged offstage by a
> vaudeville hook}
The wife has several of L'Engle books in her collection.
Lynn
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| From | Lynn McGuire <lynnmcguire5@gmail.com> |
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| Date | 2016-10-22 22:22 -0500 |
| Message-ID | <nuhadq$phm$1@dont-email.me> |
| In reply to | #454213 |
On 10/17/2016 8:47 AM, Anthony Nance wrote: > Lynn McGuire <lynnmcguire5@gmail.com> wrote: >> On 10/16/2016 3:21 PM, James Nicoll wrote: >>> In article <ntr6pe$ul0$1@dont-email.me>, >>> Lynn McGuire <lynnmcguire5@gmail.com> wrote: >>>> On 10/13/2016 8:25 PM, James Nicoll wrote: >>>>> In article <ntor7p$s8h$1@dont-email.me>, >>>>> Lynn McGuire <lynnmcguire5@gmail.com> wrote: >>>>>> On 10/13/2016 1:52 PM, James Nicoll wrote: >>>>>>> In article <7b927fe3-a87b-4f02-ba5a-2c10430e98b1@googlegroups.com>, >>>>>>> <alal65536@gmail.com> wrote: >>>>>>>> How many books do you read in parallel? >>>>>>> >>>>>>> I suck at multitasking so I do one thing at a time and that one thing >>>>>>> is all I do while I am doing it (ignoring autonomic functions). Focusing >>>>>>> on one thing at time does not seem to impede my productivity: the annual >>>>>>> count Strange Horizons does provided me with the interesting trivium that >>>>>>> the median review considered worthy of inclusion in their count, which >>>>>>> does not include me NOT THAT I TAKE THAT SNUB PERSONALLY, reviews 5.6 >>>>>>> books per year, whereas in 2015 I reviewed 329. >>>>>> >>>>>> Do you have your reviews collected anywhere ? >>>>> >>>>> In a folder called "finished" :) and here: >>>>> >>>>> http://jamesdavisnicoll.com/ >>>>> >>>>> There should be ... 678 reviews of mine there, I think. >>>> >>>> Cool! I vaguely remember looking at this before. >>>> >>>> I would be pleased to to read your reviews here if you wanted to post them. >>> >>> I kind of want traffic over there, to remind people that they too could fund >>> my patreon and potentially force me to review Mark Gawron's Algorithm, but >>> I could make posting links here part of the morning routine. >> >> I look forward to your review notices and will click the link. >> >> BTW, I never knew that Tanith Lee had so many books. I only have one. >> Looks very lonely between my many Sharon Lee books and Rush Limbaugh book. > > I envy your opportunities to read works by Leiber, Leinster, > and Lem for the first time. > > Tony I lost many of my books in the great flood of '89. Over half of them, including works by Leiber. Lynn
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| From | David DeLaney <daviddelaney@earthlink.net> |
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| Date | 2016-10-14 18:43 -0500 |
| Message-ID | <EfadnSViVLAK8JzFnZ2dnUU7-WWdnZ2d@earthlink.com> |
| In reply to | #453775 |
On 2016-10-13, James Nicoll <jdnicoll@panix.com> wrote: > <alal65536@gmail.com> wrote: >>How many books do you read in parallel? > > I suck at multitasking so I do one thing at a time and that one thing > is all I do while I am doing it (ignoring autonomic functions). Focusing > on one thing at time does not seem to impede my productivity: the annual > count Strange Horizons does provided me with the interesting trivium that > the median review considered worthy of inclusion in their count, which > does not include me NOT THAT I TAKE THAT SNUB PERSONALLY, reviews 5.6 > books per year, whereas in 2015 I reviewed 329. Sure, but you're one single improbable person, not a whole bunch of people working specialized roles to get all the reviews covered and edited and proofed and put out where people can see them; they're assuming you're either an outlier, or a subsidized attempt to get their reviewers to break free and flee into the hinterlands of the Internet and submerge themselves in the incomprehensible post-Web economy. Before I could answer the question, I'd have to know how long a book has to sit waiting for me to get back to it before I'm no longer considered to be "reading" it, and also whether websites full of fanfiction and/or comment threads count. Dave, and webcomics, and newspaper comic strips, come to think of it -- \/David DeLaney posting thru EarthLink - "It's not the pot that grows the flower It's not the clock that slows the hour The definition's plain for anyone to see Love is all it takes to make a family" - R&P. VISUALIZE HAPPYNET VRbeable<BLINK> website on VIC is down, probably for good - oh well/ I WUV you in all CAPS! --K.
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| From | Wayne Brown <fwbrown@bellsouth.net> |
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| Date | 2016-10-13 20:01 +0000 |
| Message-ID | <ntop6r$47i$1@dont-email.me> |
| In reply to | #453742 |
On Thu, 13 Oct 2016 06:22:44 in article <7b927fe3-a87b-4f02-ba5a-2c10430e98b1@googlegroups.com> alal65536@gmail.com wrote:
> How many books do you read in parallel? I am currently reading
> two books in parallel, Half a War (Fiction - Fantasy), and Chronicles
> (Non-Fiction - Economics). I find it easy and natural to juggle
> two books, one fiction and one non-fiction.
>
> I remember when I was in University, I had taken seven courses my
> final semester, so at that time I was reading up to seven textbooks,
> not to mention recreational reading.
I read mostly nonfiction, and may be reading about five or six at any
given time. When I add fiction to the mix it's usually not more than
one or two of those at once, and one of those usually ends up taking
precedence so that I read it almost exclusively until it's finished.
--
F. Wayne Brown <fwbrown@bellsouth.net>
ur sag9-ga ur-tur-še3 ba-an-kur9
"A dog that is played with turns into a puppy." (Sumerian proverb)
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| From | Don Kuenz <g@crcomp.net> |
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| Date | 2016-10-14 00:26 +0000 |
| Message-ID | <20161013a@crcomp.net> |
| In reply to | #453780 |
Wayne Brown <fwbrown@bellsouth.net> wrote:
> On Thu, 13 Oct 2016 06:22:44 in article <7b927fe3-a87b-4f02-ba5a-2c10430e98b1@googlegroups.com> alal65536@gmail.com wrote:
>> How many books do you read in parallel? I am currently reading
>> two books in parallel, Half a War (Fiction - Fantasy), and Chronicles
>> (Non-Fiction - Economics). I find it easy and natural to juggle
>> two books, one fiction and one non-fiction.
>>
>> I remember when I was in University, I had taken seven courses my
>> final semester, so at that time I was reading up to seven textbooks,
>> not to mention recreational reading.
>
> I read mostly nonfiction, and may be reading about five or six at any
> given time. When I add fiction to the mix it's usually not more than
> one or two of those at once, and one of those usually ends up taking
> precedence so that I read it almost exclusively until it's finished.
It's about the same with me. My current reading list includes technical
tomes, such as the _Art of Electronics_, along with history and
religious books. (Thank you mcdowell_ag for reminding me about the
latter.)
My science fiction list includes _Brain_ (Cook) accompanied by _Atlas of
Human Anatomy_ (Netter) and _Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary_.
The accompaniment is there to help me grok concepts such as:
We don't take the superior temporal gyrus on this patient.
It takes days, if not weeks, for me to finish one science fiction novel.
Interesting short stories can and do interrupt any given novel.
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.
Thank you,
--
Don Kuenz KB7RPU
Though nothing can bring back the hour
Of splendour in the grass, of glory in the flower;
- Wordsworth
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| From | Wayne Brown <fwbrown@bellsouth.net> |
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| Date | 2016-10-20 19:57 +0000 |
| Message-ID | <nub7jc$dmd$2@dont-email.me> |
| In reply to | #453797 |
On Thu, 13 Oct 2016 19:26:18 in article <20161013a@crcomp.net> Don Kuenz <g@crcomp.net> wrote:
>
> Wayne Brown <fwbrown@bellsouth.net> wrote:
>> On Thu, 13 Oct 2016 06:22:44 in article <7b927fe3-a87b-4f02-ba5a-2c10430e98b1@googlegroups.com> alal65536@gmail.com wrote:
>>> How many books do you read in parallel? I am currently reading
>>> two books in parallel, Half a War (Fiction - Fantasy), and Chronicles
>>> (Non-Fiction - Economics). I find it easy and natural to juggle
>>> two books, one fiction and one non-fiction.
>>>
>>> I remember when I was in University, I had taken seven courses my
>>> final semester, so at that time I was reading up to seven textbooks,
>>> not to mention recreational reading.
>>
>> I read mostly nonfiction, and may be reading about five or six at any
>> given time. When I add fiction to the mix it's usually not more than
>> one or two of those at once, and one of those usually ends up taking
>> precedence so that I read it almost exclusively until it's finished.
>
> It's about the same with me. My current reading list includes technical
> tomes, such as the _Art of Electronics_, along with history and
> religious books. (Thank you mcdowell_ag for reminding me about the
> latter.)
I'm reading _In the World of Sumer_ (the autobiography of Samuel
Noah Kramer) and _The Confessions of St. Augustine_ right now.
Also, I'm working my way through three textbooks: _Socratic Logic_
(Peter Kreeft), _A Grammar of Akkadian_ (John Huehnergard) and _A
Manual of Sumerian Grammar and Texts_ (John L. Hayes). The latter
two have been rather slow going for a long while now; I don't pick
up languages from self-teaching as quickly now as I did when I was
younger, and these are my first non-Indo-European languages which
makes the learning curve a bit steeper too.
>
> My science fiction list includes _Brain_ (Cook) accompanied by _Atlas of
> Human Anatomy_ (Netter) and _Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary_.
> The accompaniment is there to help me grok concepts such as:
>
> We don't take the superior temporal gyrus on this patient.
>
> It takes days, if not weeks, for me to finish one science fiction novel.
> Interesting short stories can and do interrupt any given novel.
I've recently finished _The Complete Works of H.P. Lovecraft_ and am
currently reading _Phantastes_ (George MacDonald), both as eBooks on
my smartphone. (The others I mentioned above are print books.) Not
too long ago I finished a several-months-long session of reading all
the "Grand Tour" series of SF novels by Ben Bova (all in print form).
After a little break from Bova I plan to go back and read the rest
of his SF novels.
> 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.
>
> Thank you,
>
--
F. Wayne Brown <fwbrown@bellsouth.net>
ur sag9-ga ur-tur-še3 ba-an-kur9
"A dog that is played with turns into a puppy." (Sumerian proverb)
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| From | djheydt@kithrup.com (Dorothy J Heydt) |
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| Date | 2016-10-20 20:20 +0000 |
| Message-ID | <oFD4Hr.1K8F@kithrup.com> |
| In reply to | #453797 |
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. -- Dorothy J. Heydt Vallejo, California djheydt at gmail dot com
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| From | Lawrence Watt-Evans <lwe@sff.net> |
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| Date | 2016-10-20 16:48 -0400 |
| Message-ID | <cbbi0cl1ob6h40ge37bru25a0oio0768rf@reader80.eternal-september.org> |
| In reply to | #454646 |
On Thu, 20 Oct 2016 20:20:15 GMT, djheydt@kithrup.com (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). The first volume is _A Game of Thrones_. The series is A Song of Ice and Fire. The TV series confused things by using "A Game of Thrones" as the series title. -- My webpage is at http://www.watt-evans.com
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| From | djheydt@kithrup.com (Dorothy J Heydt) |
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| Date | 2016-10-20 21:27 +0000 |
| Message-ID | <oFD7LC.1qEJ@kithrup.com> |
| In reply to | #454651 |
In article <cbbi0cl1ob6h40ge37bru25a0oio0768rf@reader80.eternal-september.org>, Lawrence Watt-Evans <lwe@sff.net> wrote: >On Thu, 20 Oct 2016 20:20:15 GMT, djheydt@kithrup.com (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). > >The first volume is _A Game of Thrones_. The series is A Song of Ice >and Fire. The TV series confused things by using "A Game of Thrones" >as the series title. Oh. Okay. I never watched the series either. -- Dorothy J. Heydt Vallejo, California djheydt at gmail dot com
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| From | Moriarty <blues95@ivillage.com> |
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| Date | 2016-10-20 17:09 -0700 |
| Message-ID | <d17eccd6-7ad6-4af1-ba64-f68087e98817@googlegroups.com> |
| In reply to | #454651 |
On Friday, October 21, 2016 at 7:48:41 AM UTC+11, Lawrence Watt-Evans wrote: > On Thu, 20 Oct 2016 20:20:15 GMT, djheydt@kithrup.com (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). > > The first volume is _A Game of Thrones_. The series is A Song of Ice > and Fire. The TV series confused things by using "A Game of Thrones" > as the series title. IMHO AGoT is a much better name for the series than ASoIaF. Most of the storyline is about people maneuvering for the various thrones on offer. Ice and Fire are there, sure, in the forms of the white walkers and Daenerys' dragons, but much of the plot doesn't involve them. -Moriarty
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| From | David DeLaney <daviddelaney@earthlink.net> |
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| Date | 2016-10-21 03:02 -0500 |
| Message-ID | <sO-dnZC4csHgVpTFnZ2dnUU7-Sdh4p2d@earthlink.com> |
| In reply to | #454714 |
On 2016-10-21, Moriarty <blues95@ivillage.com> wrote: > IMHO AGoT is a much better name for the series than ASoIaF. Most of the > storyline is about people maneuvering for the various thrones on offer. Ice > and Fire are there, sure, in the forms of the white walkers and Daenerys' > dragons, but much of the plot doesn't involve them. ... aaaand in the long-term drivers of some of the plot: the incredibly long seasons of the planet. Dave, Winter is Coming -- \/David DeLaney posting thru EarthLink - "It's not the pot that grows the flower It's not the clock that slows the hour The definition's plain for anyone to see Love is all it takes to make a family" - R&P. VISUALIZE HAPPYNET VRbeable<BLINK> website on VIC is down, probably for good - oh well/ I WUV you in all CAPS! --K.
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| From | Peter Trei <petertrei@gmail.com> |
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| Date | 2016-10-21 06:04 -0700 |
| Message-ID | <7f7cc418-3d29-4a73-b3b6-18e683ecae0f@googlegroups.com> |
| In reply to | #454787 |
On Friday, October 21, 2016 at 4:02:12 AM UTC-4, David DeLaney wrote: > On 2016-10-21, Moriarty <blues95@ivillage.com> wrote: > > IMHO AGoT is a much better name for the series than ASoIaF. Most of the > > storyline is about people maneuvering for the various thrones on offer. Ice > > and Fire are there, sure, in the forms of the white walkers and Daenerys' > > dragons, but much of the plot doesn't involve them. > > ... aaaand in the long-term drivers of some of the plot: the incredibly long > seasons of the planet. > > Dave, Winter is Coming IIRC, the most recent season past includes the official declaration that 'Winter has Come', sent out by the Maesters of Old Town via white ravens. The next season - for 2017, is delayed partly because the filmakers wanted to put off filming until winter weather arrived in Northern Ireland, where most of the Westeros exterior scenes are shot. pt
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| From | Lynn McGuire <lynnmcguire5@gmail.com> |
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| Date | 2016-10-20 15:50 -0500 |
| Message-ID | <nubalu$l28$1@dont-email.me> |
| In reply to | #454646 |
On 10/20/2016 3:20 PM, Dorothy J Heydt wrote: > In article <20161013a@crcomp.net>, Don Kuenz <g@crcomp.net> wrote: >> >> Interruptions do not reflect on the quality of a novel. Because as soon >> as a novel turns into a stinker it gets dropped faster than a campaign >> promise the day after an election. > > Oh, lord, yes. I remember when somebody lent me the first volume > of Martin's _Game of Thrones_ (I can't even remember the volume's > title). So I read through it; Martin's a good writer and it was > a page-turner; and then there was some interruption -- a knock at > the door? a phone call? I can't remember -- and I put it down and > I never picked it up again. I didn't throw it against the wall, > because it was somebody else's property, but I gave it back to > its owner. Too bloody ? I have yet to read Martin's _Game of Thrones_ also. Lynn
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| From | djheydt@kithrup.com (Dorothy J Heydt) |
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| Date | 2016-10-20 21:28 +0000 |
| Message-ID | <oFD7nA.1qJL@kithrup.com> |
| In reply to | #454652 |
In article <nubalu$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 ? Undiluted grimth. Martin's great at characterization; he brings full-bodied three-dimensional characters to life, and then he kills them off. Horribly. Over and over and over. >I have yet to read Martin's _Game of Thrones_ also. Um, depending on your tastes (see above), you might not want to. -- Dorothy J. Heydt Vallejo, California djheydt at gmail dot com
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| From | Lynn McGuire <lynnmcguire5@gmail.com> |
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| Date | 2016-10-20 16:51 -0500 |
| Message-ID | <nube7l$1dh$2@dont-email.me> |
| In reply to | #454661 |
On 10/20/2016 4:28 PM, Dorothy J Heydt wrote: > In article <nubalu$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 ? > > Undiluted grimth. Martin's great at characterization; he brings > full-bodied three-dimensional characters to life, and then he > kills them off. Horribly. Over and over and over. > >> I have yet to read Martin's _Game of Thrones_ also. > > Um, depending on your tastes (see above), you might not want to. Gotcha. Besides that, my SBR (strategic book reserve) is well over 500 books and slowly increasing. I even got a warning from the wife the other day about more orders from Big River. Thanks, Lynn
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| From | djheydt@kithrup.com (Dorothy J Heydt) |
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| Date | 2016-10-20 21:56 +0000 |
| Message-ID | <oFD8yK.1t98@kithrup.com> |
| In reply to | #454675 |
In article <nube7l$1dh$2@dont-email.me>, Lynn McGuire <lynnmcguire5@gmail.com> wrote: >On 10/20/2016 4:28 PM, Dorothy J Heydt wrote: >> In article <nubalu$l28$1@dont-email.me>, >> Lynn McGuire <lynnmcguire5@gmail.com> wrote: >>> On 10/20/2016 3:20 PM, Dorothy J Heydt wrote: >>>> In article <20161013a@crcomp.net>, Don Kuenz <g@crcomp.net> wrote: >>>>> >>>>> Interruptions do not reflect on the quality of a novel. Because as soon >>>>> as a novel turns into a stinker it gets dropped faster than a campaign >>>>> promise the day after an election. >>>> >>>> Oh, lord, yes. I remember when somebody lent me the first volume >>>> of Martin's _Game of Thrones_ (I can't even remember the volume's >>>> title). So I read through it; Martin's a good writer and it was >>>> a page-turner; and then there was some interruption -- a knock at >>>> the door? a phone call? I can't remember -- and I put it down and >>>> I never picked it up again. I didn't throw it against the wall, >>>> because it was somebody else's property, but I gave it back to >>>> its owner. >>> >>> Too bloody ? >> >> Undiluted grimth. Martin's great at characterization; he brings >> full-bodied three-dimensional characters to life, and then he >> kills them off. Horribly. Over and over and over. >> >>> I have yet to read Martin's _Game of Thrones_ also. >> >> Um, depending on your tastes (see above), you might not want to. > >Gotcha. Besides that, my SBR (strategic book reserve) is well over 500 >books and slowly increasing. I even got a warning from the >wife the other day about more orders from Big River. Gosh. My SBR amounts to about two ... not counting one I've ordered from Amazon that should arrive in early November. But I'm on Social Security and not a lot of it. -- Dorothy J. Heydt Vallejo, California djheydt at gmail dot com
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| From | ted@loft.tnolan.com (Ted Nolan <tednolan>) |
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| Date | 2016-10-20 21:56 +0000 |
| Message-ID | <e6ssrkFu4toU1@mid.individual.net> |
| In reply to | #454652 |
In article <nubalu$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. -- ------ columbiaclosings.com What's not in Columbia anymore..
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| From | David Johnston <Davidjohnston29@yahoo.com> |
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| Date | 2016-10-20 15:59 -0600 |
| Message-ID | <nubeo2$2mb$1@dont-email.me> |
| In reply to | #454682 |
On 10/20/2016 3:56 PM, Ted Nolan <tednolan> wrote: > In article <nubalu$l28$1@dont-email.me>, > Lynn McGuire <lynnmcguire5@gmail.com> wrote: >> On 10/20/2016 3:20 PM, Dorothy J Heydt wrote: >>> In article <20161013a@crcomp.net>, Don Kuenz <g@crcomp.net> wrote: >>>> >>>> Interruptions do not reflect on the quality of a novel. Because as soon >>>> as a novel turns into a stinker it gets dropped faster than a campaign >>>> promise the day after an election. >>> >>> Oh, lord, yes. I remember when somebody lent me the first volume >>> of Martin's _Game of Thrones_ (I can't even remember the volume's >>> title). So I read through it; Martin's a good writer and it was >>> a page-turner; and then there was some interruption -- a knock at >>> the door? a phone call? I can't remember -- and I put it down and >>> I never picked it up again. I didn't throw it against the wall, >>> because it was somebody else's property, but I gave it back to >>> its owner. >> >> Too bloody ? >> >> I have yet to read Martin's _Game of Thrones_ also. >> >> Lynn > > It is *very* bloody. > > It's also very good, but given circumstances I would have to advise > against reading it unless & until Martin actually finishes the series. > Or dies so someone else will.
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| From | djheydt@kithrup.com (Dorothy J Heydt) |
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| Date | 2016-10-21 01:57 +0000 |
| Message-ID | <oFDK4F.A2F@kithrup.com> |
| In reply to | #454682 |
In article <e6ssrkFu4toU1@mid.individual.net>, Ted Nolan <tednolan> <tednolan> wrote: >In article <nubalu$l28$1@dont-email.me>, >Lynn McGuire <lynnmcguire5@gmail.com> wrote: >>On 10/20/2016 3:20 PM, Dorothy J Heydt wrote: >>> In article <20161013a@crcomp.net>, Don Kuenz <g@crcomp.net> wrote: >>>> >>>> Interruptions do not reflect on the quality of a novel. Because as soon >>>> as a novel turns into a stinker it gets dropped faster than a campaign >>>> promise the day after an election. >>> >>> Oh, lord, yes. I remember when somebody lent me the first volume >>> of Martin's _Game of Thrones_ (I can't even remember the volume's >>> title). So I read through it; Martin's a good writer and it was >>> a page-turner; and then there was some interruption -- a knock at >>> the door? a phone call? I can't remember -- and I put it down and >>> I never picked it up again. I didn't throw it against the wall, >>> because it was somebody else's property, but I gave it back to >>> its owner. >> >>Too bloody ? >> >>I have yet to read Martin's _Game of Thrones_ also. >> >>Lynn > >It is *very* bloody. > >It's also very good, but given circumstances I would have to advise >against reading it unless & until Martin actually finishes the series. Good point. How old is he, and how healthy? -- Dorothy J. Heydt Vallejo, California djheydt at gmail dot com
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| From | William Hyde <wthyde1953@gmail.com> |
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| Date | 2016-10-20 20:23 -0700 |
| Message-ID | <b9b69bb6-4eca-4372-89c6-03073982fde2@googlegroups.com> |
| In reply to | #454738 |
On Thursday, October 20, 2016 at 10:00:03 PM UTC-4, Dorothy J Heydt wrote: > In article <e6ssrkFu4toU1@mid.individual.net>, > Ted Nolan <tednolan> <tednolan> wrote: > >In article <nubalu$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? He's in his late sixties, no idea about his health. I'm far more worried that Robert Caro won't finish his multivolume LBJ biography. Caro is 81, takes about twelve years a volume, and put the last one out only four years ago. At least I know how the LBJ story ends. Though if Martin doesn't finish the series, I'm going to assume it ends with the last person in Westeros putting a crown on his head and crying "I'm King, I'm King". Or Queen if appropriate. Alternately Icarium could drop by and kill everybody. William Hyde
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