Re: Nebula Finalists 1982

On 28 May 2024 20:44:38 GMT, Chris Buckley <alan@sabir.com> wrote:

On 2024-05-28, Paul S Person <psperson@old.netcom.invalid> wrote:

On Mon, 27 May 2024 15:39:16 -0500, "Michael F. Stemper"
<michael.stemper@gmail.com> wrote:
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On 27/05/2024 11.33, Robert Carnegie wrote:

On 07/05/2024 14:03, Michael F. Stemper wrote:

On 06/05/2024 08.52, James Nicoll wrote:

Another round of Nebula finalists, this time from the 1982 awards.
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Which 1982 Nebula Finalist Novels Have You Read?
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The Claw of the Conciliator by Gene Wolfe
Little, Big by John Crowley
Radix by A. A. Attanasio
Riddley Walker by Russell Hoban
The Many-Colored Land by Julian May
The Vampire Tapestry by Suzy McKee Charnas

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This seems to have been a bad year for my tastes.
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I read the Wolfe, along with the rest of that trilogy. Then, I
sold them back.
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Ditto the May (give or take it being part of a quadrology).
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I got maybe fifty pages into the Crowley and sold it back.

 
You can do that?  (Did we cover this before...)

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I think that there was a lengthy discussion along the lines of "Do
you have to finish every book you start?" I don't think that I
ever participated in it, but now you know where I stand on the
issue.

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I think he may have been asking about selling books back after reading
them.
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Of course, paper copies can be sold to used-book stores, but I
wouldn't think that would be "selling them back".

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I did that quite a bit when young, but that was when I was buying
hundreds of books a year from used book stores and flea markets in
the first place. Several went back to the original store (at a 50%
or larger loss to me) so I would say that was "selling them back".

I did that to, when the local branch library kept me restricted to the
kid's section after I had read /every single book/ and promised do so
for the next three years and I "discovered" used book stores.

However, I've always regarded that as, in effect, a form of renting
since, not having enough space to keep them all, I bought them
planning to bring them back after they had been read. Duplicates or
not.

None of these books went back because of the writing quality of the
book - they all were sold because I had more than one copy!  At
10 to 20 cents per book (Oklahoma prices) it wasn't worth being careful.

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