Re: Nebula Finalists 2015

On Sat, 28 Dec 2024 07:21:56 -0000 (UTC), "Default User"
<defaultuserbr@yahoo.com> wrote:

Lynn McGuire wrote:
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On 12/24/2024 8:11 PM, Default User wrote:

 

200 rejected books? You need a better pre-filter, especially as you
are buying books. That's a significant waste of money. I'm not sure
I would consider books you won't read to be a strategic book
reserve.

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My tastes have changed over the last 30+ years. For instance, I have
given up on Clive Custler and there are 2 or 3 of his in my SBR.

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Why aren't you reading your books when you get them? Keeping them so
long your tastes change isn't very effective.

I can empathize with the SBR: I have a very large collection of
magazine-associate games ("conflict simulations") that I have never
puched the counters out for, let alone read the rules or played them.
Collecting, for some of us, can become a bit of a mania; I find that
insisting on reading each book at least once and rotating music and
movies on discs regularly at least avoids those large heaps of items
never ever put to their proper use. But for the games, I simply
switched to the game-free (and much less expensive) editions of the
magazines.
--
"Here lies the Tuscan poet Aretino,
Who evil spoke of everyone but God,
Giving as his excuse, 'I never knew him.'"