Keith, it is a tough read. I read it when I was new to the genre, and literally couldn't get enough of it. I grew up in Danville, Virginia (through no fault of my own -- my parents divorced and that was where my mother was from), and the public library there only had about two hundred SF/fantasy books on the shelves. I think I read all of them at least ten times each, starting in the As and going right down the line.
"If all the world's a stage and all the people merely players, who in bloody hell hired the director?" -- Charles L Grant http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fQUxw9aUVik To: scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com From: keithbjohn...@comcast.net Date: Fri, 19 Feb 2010 04:50:22 +0000 Subject: Re: [scifinoir2] Re: How Steampunk Literature Has Changed In The Past Decade 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/ _________________________________________________________________ Hotmail: Free, trusted and rich email service. http://clk.atdmt.com/GBL/go/201469228/direct/01/
