The Helliconia book for me: Helliconia Spring, I think. Tried three times, can't get past the first chapter.
----- Original Message ----- From: "Mr. Worf" <hellomahog...@gmail.com> To: scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com Sent: Thursday, February 18, 2010 6:27:30 PM GMT -05:00 US/Canada Eastern Subject: Re: [scifinoir2] Re: How Steampunk Literature Has Changed In The Past Decade There's a topic for you. Which book or books have you tried to read multiple times but just haven't managed to finish? For me it is Stephen King's The Stand. I tried to read and finish it 9 times. On Thu, Feb 18, 2010 at 3:02 PM, Martin Baxter < truthseeker...@hotmail.com > wrote: I'm still waiting for "Boneshaker" to free itself from Queue Heck at the library. (A close friend read it and raved on it for weeks.) My first introduction to Steampunk (as was pretty much everyone else in SF) was Gibson and Sterling's "The Difference Engine". And, like many in the genre, it nearly ran me out. Possibly the second-most verbose book I've ever touched in my life. (And Joyce's "Ulysses" ranks #5 on that list, right below "War and Peace".) Thought I was strange in my reaction to it (owning it and having yet to get more than 40 pages into it), but I've since learned that I'm far from alone there. Hotmail: Trusted email with powerful SPAM protection. Sign up now. -- Celebrating 10 years of bringing diversity to perversity! Mahogany at: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/mahogany_pleasures_of_darkness/
