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RekisteröitymispäiväSep 15, 2005

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hi Lorax,

I just read your review of "A bridge of birds" and noticed that it makes you cry, just like I independently volunteered in my own review.

which parts of the book make you cry and why, if I may?

for me it's two places: when Ten Ox and Li Kao try to revive the children for the first time and when Ten Ox learns about the ancestral origin of the children's game at the base of the riddle, revealing the vertiginous depth of what he thought was just a silly amusement.

if you haven't read 'The dream of the red chamber', I highly recommend it as it contains a similar theme (our life as a projection of more important things that happen on a different plane of existence).

best,

stefano

Lähettänyt: stefano 7:58 am (EST) Jul 14, 2008

thanks for your reply on "escape to utopia" - far calmer and more reasonably written than my responses. i should never, ever get into political threads because i go way too far over the top which doesn't clarify anything. And it was largely my fault that that thread fell apart in the first place.
bob

Lähettänyt: bobmcconnaughey 10:02 pm (EST) Jul 2, 2008

hello again, lorax! I appreciate my mistake having been repaired. I've looked all over for an author page and I can't find it so I think I'm just going to forget the whole thing. I probably don't need to list my favorite authors anyway.

Lähettänyt: karinamentz 4:23 pm (EST) Jun 29, 2008

Hello back! I would loveto know how to undo the combination. What I was trying to do was indicate a favorite author. Any help would be appreciated. Thanks.

Lähettänyt: karinamentz 8:45 am (EST) Jun 27, 2008

Just saw your answer from half a year ago on the 'normalized completist authors' concept. Too bad Tim doesn't like the idea, even though I would think it quite easy to exclude one book authors from the sets before normalization.. :-)

Lähettänyt: mikael.ohlson 11:33 am (EST) Jun 25, 2008

i think you're right..i tend to prefer "transparent" styles, for the most part. But then, there are writers, like Hemingway, who try(ied) so pathetically hard to have "no style" that they become very easy to both identify and parody. That may be one reason i like an awful lot of YA writers a lot (Diane Duane, Cynthia Voight..it's a VERY long list) because they focus on story and character and not on the author.

But then there are "high" lit authors whose works i love, Durrell, Greene, Atwood who put their writing up front..but it doesn't get in my face, so to speak. But for a "poetic" style..i tend to go for poetry - for a non-poet i actually do own a fair bit of modern poetry ;-) (someone has to buy those chapbooks! - i'm trying to get in touch w/ Laura Fargas at the moment to get permission to put her picture and a bit of bio stuff up on LT)

Lähettänyt: bobmcconnaughey 6:53 pm (EST) Jun 10, 2008

Hi,

Thanks for the help with the Crowley books. Think we did it pretty quickly between the two of us. Remaining issues left seem to be the thing with Aegypt, as you mentioned, and common knowledge had been lost.

Lähettänyt: koffieyahoo 8:36 pm (EST) May 27, 2008

Yeah, that's right. I think he wrote recently he was still working on that or something.

Lähettänyt: bluetyson 7:17 pm (EST) Jan 18, 2008

Very nice collection; we've only just begun to catalog, so i imagine there will be a good deal more overlap as i continue across the SF/Fantasy shelves and the cognitive sciences stuff. Even though we disagree on her "worth" i AM glad to find another person w/ a sig. # of Melissa Scott's books. I think she's among the very few sci-fi writers to handle "arts" in a artful fashion - one reason i liked Dreaming Metal so much. I also think she's far better than most at interweaving the socio-anthropological backgrounds of her worlds convincingly; very few sci-fi writers actually deal w/ class/caste issues at all, really - such issues tend to be used as fictional window dressing, in most cases. I really liked Night Sky Mine - i can't think of much else in YA sci-fi that attempts to deal w/ gender issues, w/out making the issues themselves the whole point of the story.
much cheer in the year to come,
bob

Lähettänyt: bobmcconnaughey 1:00 pm (EST) Dec 25, 2007

You wrote:

"Joe,

You allude to a 'main' account, which makes me suspect that your reason for having four free accounts really isn't to get around the 200 limit. You may want to link to the main account as well to remove any lingering doubt that you're trying to evade the TOS, so that anyone else who sees these accounts can see that you really have paid up and are just using these accounts as a temporary holding ground until collections are implemented."

Good idea. I spoke with (that is, I emailed) Abby several weeks back and got her okay for these wishlists. I'll link them now.

Joe

Lähettänyt: myLTwishlist4 6:34 pm (EST) Nov 8, 2007

many thanks for the useful comment. yes, I probably should be keeping quiet a while yet ...

Lähettänyt: hfglen 3:59 pm (EST) Oct 4, 2007

Hello Lorax

I'm posting here rather than in the name a feature thread because by the time I saw your comment last night there were 40 more after it, which sounds like a great way to lose the thread (pardon the pun).

Many thanks for the info. On reflection, I agree with you: why go for something totally obscure when there are so many great and clear suggestions coming up. My excuse for making the suggestion I did is that Tim evidently wanted something faintly exotic-sounding, and in fact if the concept of Ubuntu (S.A. style) ever were to be applied, it would come out something like what he's proposing. However I think we'll see flocks of flying pigs before that ever happens! So I'll happily bow to your view, and hope to stay in touch :).

Lähettänyt: hfglen 5:20 am (EST) Oct 4, 2007

Yes, my husband and I recently returned from a soggy tent-camping trip to the Pacific Northwest and we were both relieved to be back in Arizona in time to enjoy the drama of the monsoons (I can hear thunder approaching as I write this). Yards are ablaze with the brilliant purple of various leucophyllum species as well as spectacular, multicolored lantanas.

Red-crowned parrots would be fun to see, though.

Lähettänyt: tropics 8:05 pm (EST) Aug 1, 2007

I see that you own Door Number Three by Patrick O'Leary. If your interested this, http://www.fantasybookspot.com/node/1447, is a link to an interview that I did with him recently. He has new books coming out in the next year.

Best

Brian

Lähettänyt: LastCall 2:28 pm (EST) Nov 28, 2006

I adore Bookman's. It is just what I was looking for.

Lähettänyt: ponder 5:38 pm (EST) Aug 19, 2006

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