Gary Denton wrote:
>
> On Mon, 14 Jun 2004 19:41:52 -0500, Julia Thompson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> <snip>
> > I've read the Farmer, the Le Guin and the McCaffrey.
> >
> > I first read _Dragonquest_ when I was about 13. (Probably within 3
> > months of my 13th birthday one way or the other.)
> >
> > I first read _Lathe of Heaven_ when I was about 15. (After I'd read &
> > purchased every McCaffrey paperback I could find at Paperback Booksmith,
> > I started into Le Guin.)
> >
> > I read _To Your Scattered Bodies Go_ when I was 23. And after I'd read
> > a much more assorted bunch of SF than I had when I was 15.
> >
> > Plus I married a guy who's read only 1 Le Guin novel, and that one is
> > it, and he likes it so much that he doesn't want to read any more Le
> > Guin for fear of disappointment. I keep telling him he really ought to
> > read _The Dispossessed_. (You may disagree, but you don't know him as
> > well as I do.)
> >
> > Julia
>
> What was the one great le Guin book that makes the other unreadable
> for fear of disappointment?
_The Lathe of Heaven_. The only one I'd referred to previously to be
the antecedent to "it" in that sentence.
(Made perfect sense to me when I wrote it, anyway....)
Julia
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