On Tuesday, March 18, 2003, at 10:55 am, Ronn!Blankenship wrote:
At 06:13 PM 3/18/03 +0900, G. D. Akin wrote:
I have all of these but something keeps jumping past them in my want to read
list. I've been putting off Delany because my one experience with him was
"Dahlgren" -- HATED IT!
After many years of hearing comments on it, I finally heard from _one_ person who claimed to have read more than approximately the first 100 pages. In fact, he claimed to have actually finished the whole book.
I've read it twice! The bits with the fancy typographical layout are slightly harder going than the average read...[1]
My list of authors I have never read a whole novel by consists of Hemingway[2] + everybody else I was supposed to read at school...unless they were a sf/fantasy/horror writer.
[1] And it was an early edition with some mistakes in that were corrected in later editions. Not sure who was supposed to be able to tell that apart from the author :)
[2] Why does it always rain when the protagonist is glum? How realistic is that, not.
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