Re: How Well-Read Are You in Science Fiction?

From	Robert Bannister <robban@clubtelco.com>
Newsgroups	rec.arts.sf.written
Subject	Re: How Well-Read Are You in Science Fiction?
Date	2016-05-06 10:19 +0800
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On 6/05/2016 7:00 AM, Don Bruder wrote:
> In article <nggiaj$hkk$1@dont-email.me>, Lynn McGuire <lmc@winsim.com>
> wrote:
>
>
>> I forgot _The Road_ by Cormac McCarthy.
>>
>> Lynn
>
> You didn't "forget" it - Your subconscious censored it for you,
> correctly placing that action in the category "mercy killing".
>
> A more boring, pointless, nothing gets resolved, nothing gets done, no
> story gets told, nothing happens but the character (mostly internally)
> whining pretty much non-stop about an unclear something that happened (a
> something about which nothing can be done) mass of words has yet to be
> put in front of me. How I managed to wade through it at all is beyond my
> capacity to understand - I suspect it was most likely a desperate hope
> that *SOME* kind of payoff would come along on the next page to make the
> slog worthwhile. Except that nothing did.
>
The above also sums up the Hyperion series for me. I read the first one 
and a half novels, giving up slightly over halfway through the second.

-- 
Robert B. born England a long time ago;
Western Australia since 1972

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How Well-Read Are You in Science Fiction? lal_truckee <lal_truckee@yahoo.com> - 2016-05-01 09:56 -0700
  Re: How Well-Read Are You in Science Fiction? "Brian M. Scott" <b.scott@csuohio.edu> - 2016-05-01 13:27 -0400
    Re: How Well-Read Are You in Science Fiction? lal_truckee <lal_truckee@yahoo.com> - 2016-05-01 11:05 -0700
      Re: How Well-Read Are You in Science Fiction? Jack Bohn <jack.bohn64@gmail.com> - 2016-05-04 06:41 -0700
        Re: How Well-Read Are You in Science Fiction? "Brian M. Scott" <b.scott@csuohio.edu> - 2016-05-04 13:03 -0400
          Re: How Well-Read Are You in Science Fiction? Jack Bohn <jack.bohn64@gmail.com> - 2016-05-05 06:19 -0700
  Re: How Well-Read Are You in Science Fiction? Chris Buckley <alan@sabir.com> - 2016-05-01 18:26 +0000
    Re: How Well-Read Are You in Science Fiction? lal_truckee <lal_truckee@yahoo.com> - 2016-05-01 13:42 -0700
      Re: How Well-Read Are You in Science Fiction? David DeLaney <daviddelaney@earthlink.net> - 2016-05-01 18:44 -0500
        Re: How Well-Read Are You in Science Fiction? Chris Buckley <alan@sabir.com> - 2016-05-02 01:45 +0000
  Re: How Well-Read Are You in Science Fiction? Quadibloc <jsavard@ecn.ab.ca> - 2016-05-01 22:06 -0700
    Re: How Well-Read Are You in Science Fiction? Don Kuenz <garbage@crcomp.net> - 2016-05-02 16:55 +0000
      Re: How Well-Read Are You in Science Fiction? Peter Trei <petertrei@gmail.com> - 2016-05-02 10:07 -0700
        Re: How Well-Read Are You in Science Fiction? Quadibloc <jsavard@ecn.ab.ca> - 2016-05-03 10:13 -0700
          Re: How Well-Read Are You in Science Fiction? Thomas Koenig <tkoenig@netcologne.de> - 2016-05-07 16:05 +0000
            Re: How Well-Read Are You in Science Fiction? Kevrob <kevrob@my-deja.com> - 2016-05-07 10:33 -0700
  Re: How Well-Read Are You in Science Fiction? Peter Trei <petertrei@gmail.com> - 2016-05-02 08:26 -0700
    Re: How Well-Read Are You in Science Fiction? "Brian M. Scott" <b.scott@csuohio.edu> - 2016-05-02 12:41 -0400
  Re: How Well-Read Are You in Science Fiction? Shawn Wilson <ikonoqlast@gmail.com> - 2016-05-02 11:28 -0700
  Re: How Well-Read Are You in Science Fiction? Greg Goss <gossg@gossg.org> - 2016-05-03 21:12 -0600
  Re: How Well-Read Are You in Science Fiction? Lynn McGuire <lmc@winsim.com> - 2016-05-05 16:34 -0500
    Re: How Well-Read Are You in Science Fiction? Jack Bohn <jack.bohn64@gmail.com> - 2016-05-05 15:20 -0700
      Re: How Well-Read Are You in Science Fiction? Lynn McGuire <lmc@winsim.com> - 2016-05-05 17:39 -0500
        Re: How Well-Read Are You in Science Fiction? Lynn McGuire <lmc@winsim.com> - 2016-05-05 17:46 -0500
          Re: How Well-Read Are You in Science Fiction? Don Bruder <dakidd@sonic.net> - 2016-05-05 16:00 -0700
            Re: How Well-Read Are You in Science Fiction? Lynn McGuire <lmc@winsim.com> - 2016-05-05 18:12 -0500
            Re: How Well-Read Are You in Science Fiction? Robert Bannister <robban@clubtelco.com> - 2016-05-06 10:19 +0800
              Re: How Well-Read Are You in Science Fiction? Don Bruder <dakidd@sonic.net> - 2016-05-05 20:10 -0700
                Re: How Well-Read Are You in Science Fiction? Lawrence Watt-Evans <lwe@sff.net> - 2016-05-06 01:56 -0400
                Re: How Well-Read Are You in Science Fiction? goldfarb@ocf.berkeley.edu (David Goldfarb) - 2016-05-06 05:51 +0000
                Re: How Well-Read Are You in Science Fiction? Quadibloc <jsavard@ecn.ab.ca> - 2016-05-06 13:47 -0700
                Re: How Well-Read Are You in Science Fiction? goldfarb@ocf.berkeley.edu (David Goldfarb) - 2016-05-07 01:08 +0000
                Re: How Well-Read Are You in Science Fiction? Quadibloc <jsavard@ecn.ab.ca> - 2016-05-06 19:25 -0700
                Re: How Well-Read Are You in Science Fiction? Don Bruder <dakidd@sonic.net> - 2016-05-06 20:43 -0700
              Re: How Well-Read Are You in Science Fiction? Juho Julkunen <giaotanj@hotmail.com> - 2016-05-06 16:00 +0300
        Re: How Well-Read Are You in Science Fiction? "Brian M. Scott" <b.scott@csuohio.edu> - 2016-05-06 13:06 -0400
          Re: How Well-Read Are You in Science Fiction? Lynn McGuire <lmc@winsim.com> - 2016-05-06 13:03 -0500
        Re: How Well-Read Are You in Science Fiction? Don Kuenz <garbage@crcomp.net> - 2016-05-06 22:51 +0000
      Re: How Well-Read Are You in Science Fiction? Moriarty <blues95@ivillage.com> - 2016-05-05 16:24 -0700
        Re: How Well-Read Are You in Science Fiction? Greg Goss <gossg@gossg.org> - 2016-05-05 21:10 -0600
          Re: How Well-Read Are You in Science Fiction? Lynn McGuire <lmc@winsim.com> - 2016-05-06 13:05 -0500
        Re: How Well-Read Are You in Science Fiction? "Brian M. Scott" <b.scott@csuohio.edu> - 2016-05-06 16:58 -0400
      Re: How Well-Read Are You in Science Fiction? Ahasuerus <ahasuerus@email.com> - 2016-05-05 17:00 -0700

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