From: Ronn!Blankenship <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Reply-To: Killer Bs Discussion <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Killer Bs Discussion <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: Author question Date: Mon, 11 Aug 2003 14:42:49 -0500
At 12:23 PM 8/11/03 -0400, Jon Gabriel wrote:From: "G. D. Akin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Reply-To: Killer Bs Discussion <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Killer Bs Discussion" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Author question Date: Mon, 11 Aug 2003 19:30:50 +0900
Awhile back I picked up a book out of the Exchange bargain bin by Sarah Zettel, "The Quiet Invasion." It is still in pile of to read books. Has any one read anything by her. Worth the effort?
Just finished reading "Lucifer's Hammer" by Larry Niven again. Still, IMO, the best end-of-the-world book ever.
Arrrrgh!
By horrifying coincidence, I'm 100 pages into Lucifer's Hammer, which I've never read before. Could we PLEASE refrain from discussing how books END(!!!) without some sort of warning?
You had no idea what it was about before you started reading it?
No. It's a hardcover book without a jacket that was on a friend's shelf.
Okay. But, although admittedly there's a lot of threads with a lot of characters near the beginning, by page 100 you almost certainly have _some_ idea of what's going to happen . . .
(Unlike Delaney's _Dhalgren_, where by page 100 most readers have given up and thrown the book away in disgust . . . )
-- Ronn! :)
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