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11th July 2011, 02:31 AM
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| Re: Book Hauls! I do admit, antiloquax, that there are some books now that I think of that if I went back I could more or less get into them, per-say- however, there is another part of me that says the opportunity would be worse now because being older I wouldn't have the patience and the thought running through my head as I tried would be: There are so many books and not enough time. |
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12th July 2011, 06:37 AM
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| Re: Book Hauls! Dozois, ed. - The Year's Best Science Fiction, 27th and 28th Annual (missed last year's) de Camp - The Queen of Zamba (been looking for this for years under either title) It's real cute what they're doing these days - the 28th is half the thickness of any of 1-27. At least it contains the same wordage/pageage, but it's on onion-skin paper, basically. I can see the damned paper shrinking into pixels right now. "We'll force you to read e-books whether you want to or not, by making the books so crappy they might as well be paperless nobacks! Mwahahaha!"  Anyway, glad to have these, even so.  -- Weird. I typed this up almost two hours ago and came back to my browser window and realized I'd never posted it. Anyway, I've now read the Summation and what does he talk about? The explosion of e-books. And I now have a headache from seeing the backwards text on the other side of the page underlaying the text on the reading side of the page which is, itself, black on gray paper. |
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13th July 2011, 12:39 PM
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| Re: Book Hauls! Quote:
OH yeh and I personally felt Incredible Shrinking Man was very good, not far off the excellence of I Am Legend in fact.....  Still need to get my copy of A Dance With Dragons...maybe this weekend. | |
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13th July 2011, 12:43 PM
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| Re: Book Hauls! Quote:
About a young man who finds the journal of a murdered gunfighter who he saw as hero of his. The diary of the gunfighter shows how unromantic,poor the life of a gunfighter really is. He won big western award for it. One of my fav writers writing a western is ideal for me. Shrinking Man was so weak because i read just days after I Am Legend. I cant believe its so weak that i didnt even finish it in hindsight. I should try it later after i read these books. | |
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13th July 2011, 05:45 PM
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13th July 2011, 07:52 PM
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| Re: Book Hauls! I really enjoyed "The Shrinking Man". Maybe I read it before "I am Legend". Anyway, I have only read those two. Based on the films, I quite fancy reading "Stir of Echoes" and "What Dreams May Come". I am ignorant of his other work. a |
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13th July 2011, 10:03 PM
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| Re: Book Hauls! John Shirley - Eclipse Corona. I read the first in the trilogy a zillion years ago and it's taken me that long to find the second and third. Now I can finally read the whole thing - though I still won't get to it for awhile yet. |
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14th July 2011, 11:08 AM
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| Re: Book Hauls! Quote:
We'll have you floating in a river of books and thoroughly penniless but with a permanent grin on your dial in no time...  | |
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