ritu wrote: <snip>
> There is very little about these series that I don't like [and no, > Covenant doesn't irritate me], I even remember regretting the years > these books were undiscovered by me. :) > However, I rarely recommend the series to people [you'd notice I just > mentioned it- didn't tell Gautam that he should read it]. I have > discovered that very few people react to these books the way I do - most > people I have met/talked to find these books rather bleak and depressing > and most of them find TC to be an irritating, whining git. :) ----------------------------------------- In the first book, there is a lengthy passage about how TC shaves himself with a straight-edge and hsi battle to do and not cut himself. He could've saved me hours of unenjoyable reading if he' just cut his throat right then and there. However, as "Ebert and Roeper" do, we all have our "guilty pleasures." TC must be one of yours. I liked "Battlefield Earth . . . a lot. George A P.S. The book . . . not the movie. _______________________________________________ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
