Re: Nebula Finalists 2015

Default User wrote:

Lynn McGuire wrote:
 

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.

 

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.

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

Which leads to the question, what is your longest time between acquiring a book and reading it?
In my case it would be fifty two years.  My uncle gave my mother a copy of Frank Yerby's deeply footnoted "Judas, my Brother".  It soon wound up in my collection and last year I finally read it.
But the longest gap between buying a book and reading it would be in my case 24 years, the book being De Camp's "The Ancient Engineers", which I devoured on a Halifax-Fairbanks trip, cursing myself for not having read it earlier.
William Hyde