Re: Nebula Finalists 1982

On 28 May 2024 19:18:35 -0000, kludge@panix.com (Scott Dorsey) wrote:

In article <141c5jh8oj4gftt9js8b3n3h4srb73i36i@4ax.com>,
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.

=20
You can do that?=A0 (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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Sure, you can do that but you cannot sell them back UNTIL you have read
them because... maybe you'll change your mind and want to see how they end.

I agree with that in general, and apply it to movies and the arts
(fine or not-so-fine) in general, but, as noted recently, I have run
into two books that I did not finish because I lost all interest in
them -- IOW, I didn't care if they got better, they had become
offensive. And that's not counting the one I misplaced and simply
moved on to the next rather than getting a new copy to read.

One of the reasons I did this was so that nobody could tell me "it
gets better" because I had read/seen the thing through to the bitter
end and, no, it did not.
--
"Here lies the Tuscan poet Aretino,
Who evil spoke of everyone but God,
Giving as his excuse, 'I never knew him.'"