Ray Chiang used to host the FAQ.. but he had to give it up... So I took it over... And then it fell to Crydee.com....
-----Original Message----- From: Michael Gibson [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Saturday, June 23, 2012 5:22 AM To: feistfans-l Subject: Re: Quick wave from an old face... (Not really OT) .. And about ACI... Hi Larry! I remember you from years back. Was it the FAQ you used to run? Mike, (Gibfish of the West!) On 22 Jun 2012, at 07:39, "Larry Siegel" <[email protected]> wrote: > First off, as shocking as this may seem, I am still around.... > And yeah I read that post a few months ago about old timers still > kicking > around.... I have 61844 unread messages in the group just sitting on > my > PC.... which I will catch up on in the next 5 years probably.... > I stopped actively reading the list a while ago, as I found myself > encountering way too many spoilers, and lacking the self control to > not read > them :) > > With life being what it was, I stopped reading any of the riftwar > books > after Talon, when I decided I was going to wait for the last Riftwar > book to > be out, and then read them all back to back.... as I just couldn't > seem to > wait patiently between books anymore. > > Anyway, I went out and bought ACI... not knowing about the mistakes > in the > book. Last week, I had read about the issue on Amazon's website > (Thanks John > for posting)... Sent an e-mail to HC... and less then a week later I > have a > corrected version. That being said... I ran into a situation where the > original and the new version were mixed up before the original was > 'destroyed' as requested from HC... So long way of reaching the > question... > But how would I know by looking at the 2 books, which is the correct > one and > which is the bad copy.... Is there a page or text I can look for to > let me > know? > > Secondly... if I had not read John's post on amazon... and not > switched the > book out, and a year from now after "Magician's End" comes out... > and I read > ACI... would I be completely lost? Is it just one chapter that's > messed up? > The posts on Amazon had said there were a lot of errors in the book, > and I > didn't know how bad they were, or if it was just some disgruntled > reader > thrown off by the bad chapter issue. > > I am going to have to start reading the old e-mails on the list > again... > Some pretty interesting threads seemed to have passed me by. > > It is refreshing to see the list carries on... like an old book... the > characters we are used to seeing are still around... and the > occasional > troll still pops up that needs a thrashing. And yes this post is > probably > the longest one I have written to the list.. but I haven't posted in > like 7 > years so :p > > Still Here... and Still lurking....PsiHawk > > Larry > > > >
