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Offline Rusty Edge

Re: The Reading Corner.
« Reply #570 on: April 07, 2016, 07:18:25 PM »
as per discussion in another thread-

Books by Linda Ellerbe
https://www.goodreads.com/author/list/21682.Linda_Ellerbee

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Re: The Reading Corner.
« Reply #571 on: April 08, 2016, 03:50:22 PM »
The Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole

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Re: The Reading Corner.
« Reply #572 on: April 15, 2016, 04:25:05 AM »
The One Tree by Stephen R. Donaldson.
White Gold Wielder by Stephen R. Donaldson.

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« Reply #573 on: April 20, 2016, 02:52:09 AM »
"Where are you going, Where have you been?" by Joyce Carol Oates

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« Reply #574 on: April 20, 2016, 02:52:50 AM »
"Kubla Khan" by Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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« Reply #575 on: April 20, 2016, 02:53:38 AM »
The Struggle for Democracy by Edward S. Greenberg

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Re: The Reading Corner.
« Reply #576 on: May 23, 2016, 07:38:25 PM »
White Gold Wielder by Stephen R. Donaldson.
The Power That Preserves by Stephen R. Donaldson.  Three nights in a row going to bed late, and some of it's me, but I/he still hasn't gotten to the snakebit little girl yet, let alone the second summons. ;clenchedteeth  I read really fast, even if I do go to sleep in under 20 minutes, so a lot of it's an author who always spends two months on the boring part in the real world before it gets faintly interesting.

-Found it while I was looking for World of Ptaavs and Neutron Star instead of what I was looking for.  I need to sort my books...

If anyone's interested, I could say a lot more than I have about Donaldson and the Thomas Covenant books...

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Re: The Reading Corner.
« Reply #577 on: June 05, 2016, 08:10:52 PM »
Tracker, Foreigner #16, by CJ Cherryh

I read the first two Chronicles of Thomas Covenant trilogies so many moons ago. I liked the second, but not as much as the first.
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Re: The Reading Corner.
« Reply #578 on: June 05, 2016, 08:49:25 PM »
The step down the second set took is not near so large as to the third - which has some fine moments, but Donaldson needs an editor who edits - bad...

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« Reply #579 on: June 05, 2016, 09:13:57 PM »
Yeah, I've read the first two of the last chronicles and have been pretty disappointed.
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Re: The Reading Corner.
« Reply #580 on: June 05, 2016, 09:17:30 PM »
You missed the crowning bit of writerly wankery of the entire series then - it took 150 pages for them to move from the very spot the second book ended on, and nothing happened the whole time.

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« Reply #581 on: June 05, 2016, 10:44:18 PM »
Well, I did read most of Wheel of Time, so I've got some experience with going nowhere.
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Re: The Reading Corner.
« Reply #582 on: June 05, 2016, 11:01:38 PM »
Robert Jordan was proof that book editing is dead.

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Re: The Reading Corner.
« Reply #583 on: June 05, 2016, 11:57:14 PM »
With Samurai Editor it could have been finished in six books.
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Re: The Reading Corner.
« Reply #584 on: June 06, 2016, 12:11:44 AM »
He says it needs cuts.

 

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