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[NAFDA] "There will be an occasional happy, so that it might be crushed under the boot of the writer." From Zorro to Angel (including Wonderfalls and The Inside), this is where Buffistas come to anoint themselves in the bloodbath.
He's generally a good gruesome twisty conspiracy-theory-ridden nutbag of a storyteller, and a big guilty pleasure, but there are whole chapters in each of his novels that I have to read with one eye closed or my brain turned off. When he decides to write like a real Writer and Ahh-tist, he's absolutely unbearable.
He also once spent the better part of a book signing hiding in the back room and having books ferried in to him to be signed.
I kid you not.
Wow, that can't be a fun way to have to live. At all.
I ran across CJ Cherryh's blog today. Not a fascinating read, really, but what day-journal blog is? It struck me -- from between the lines -- that the person writing those entries is not wealthy, is a person just barely over the line into middle-money.
Does that seem right to you? t /Jubal Early
OK. Crichton is starting to piss me off, again.
Gus, thank you for that link to CJ Cherryh's writeblog. I found it a great read, and have had to save most of it for later. You may recall, I met Carolyn and Jane most recently in March, so I'm hearing it very strongly in her voice as I read.
CJ Cherryh is one of those authors whose work I've always meant to read, but never got around to it. Does anyone have a suggested starting work?
I like King's shorter stuff. His novellas tend to really work for me, they're long enough to let him develop his characters but not so long that they let him sprawl all over the place.
Been enjoying the SF discussion a lot. Couple of names that I would love to hear you chat about.
Damon Knight and Joe Haldeman.
Couple of names that I would love to hear you chat about.
I'm surprised no one's mentioned Orson Scott Card. I love the Ender books and Pastwatch.
Joe Haldeman
I like Haldeman, although it's been a long while since I've actually read any of it. The Forever War is a great book, an anti-war version of Starship Troopers.
Calli, there's a bibliography page here:
Where to start? Wow. Depends. How about Downbelow Station, or The Pride of Chanur or Gate of Ivrel or Cyteen or Forty Thousand in Gehenna?
marty, I thought Joe Haldeman's The Forever War was engaging and horrifying and I think it is still an important book 30 years later. I read it as a perfect counter-point to Starship Troopers, but I'm not sure that juxtaposition is relevant anymore.
ETA: really cool x-post with DX.
P-C, I like the Ender books. Pastwatch was good too. I thought the Alvin Maker books, at least the first few, were good reads too.
Heh, good x-post there, John.