I just finished The Worm (Ouroboros) for the teenth time, and looked around for something to read. I came across After Things Fell Apart (which I've read
a couple of times), by Ron Goulart (notorious for being Capt. Kirk's ghostwriter). Goulart did a lot of potboilers, but he's consistently
entertaining. He wrote ATFA in 1970, and more than reading like a prediction of the future, it reads like a history of the last 30-some years. BTW, if you
decide to attempt The Worm, simply skip the first 30 pages or so (you can read them after you finish the book, if you like).....
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- THE GALACTIC REVIEW
- TRIVIAL VANCEAN PURSUIT
- AZENOMEI FAIR
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- PROCLAMATIONS AND EXPLANATIONS
- THE BEYOND
- WANKHERS' RECOMMENDATIONS
- TESTING
- DISCUSSION ARCHIVE 1
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Posts: 159 07/03/09 12:40:21 I sing the saw electric |
Jack Vance for the Nobel Prize in Literature!
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DocGeorge wrote: Opinions vary. I find the first 30 pages, particularly the lover's little talk, vital to setting the tone of story, so that the reader is in the proper frame of mind when he meets the Demons and the Witches. Immanuel Kant: sapere aude |
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Posts: 161 07/07/09 15:33:54 I sing the saw electric |
pecooper:
"Opinions vary. I find the first 30 pages, particularly the lover's little talk, vital to setting the tone of story, so that the reader is in the proper frame of mind when he meets the Demons and the Witches." Yeah, BUT not if those pages keep A Reader from getting into the book (AT ALL)- I know a few people who were avoiding The Worm until I paper-clipped the first 30 or so pages together- that's why I said read them afterwards, because I'm willing to bet that YOU have read The Worm more than once- just about everybody does...and then you enjoy ALL the little neat bits....
Jack Vance for the Nobel Prize in Literature!
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- FOR JACK VANCE
- JACK VANCE DISCUSSION
- QUESTIONS FOR JACK
- THE GALACTIC REVIEW
- TRIVIAL VANCEAN PURSUIT
- AZENOMEI FAIR
- LINKS
- PROCLAMATIONS AND EXPLANATIONS
- THE BEYOND
- WANKHERS' RECOMMENDATIONS
- TESTING
- DISCUSSION ARCHIVE 1
- DISCUSSION ARCHIVE 2
- DISCUSSION ARCHIVE 3
- DISCUSSION ARCHIVE 4
- THE BEYOND ARCHIVE 1
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| After Things Fell Apart... | 07/03/09 12:40:21 | DocGeorge |
| Re: After Things Fell Apart... | 07/03/09 14:14:08 | pecooper |
| More on The Worm.... | 07/07/09 15:33:54 | DocGeorge |
