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furyalecto · Post by **furyalecto** » Sun Aug 12, 2007 8:29 pm

Network Administrator in central Illinois.

1. Favorite Genre Sci Fi

2. Favorite Author Bruce Sterling

3. Favorite Author that's not in Favorite Genre Andrew Vachss with Janet Evanovich a close 2nd.

4. How/Why you picked your Member-Name Liked the Furies & Alecto was one & liked the way they fit together although I am not unceasing in anger.

5. How you found IBDoF Googling for new books by favorite authors.

6. Name one book you would never recommend to a friend Dunno.

7. Top 5 books/series
Vorkosigan Series & all LMB books.
Diamond Age Neal Stephenson
All Vernor Vinge books (1st is Rainbow's End)
Spares Michael Marshal Smith
Distraction Bruce Sterling

I think I was looking for new stuff & somehow got here via google via sfsignal & LE Modesitt Jr's blogs & already I found LM Bujold's entries that there is another Miles book planned & my day is made!
I think I may be in trouble with dear wife if I spend too much more time in another forum so I may be scarce.

Post by **clong** » Sun Aug 12, 2007 8:33 pm

Welcome Annarf and furyalecto!

CodeBlower · Post by **CodeBlower** » Mon Aug 13, 2007 10:51 am

Annarf wrote:6. Name one book you would never recommend to a friend
Eragon, by Christopher Paolini. Grr. That book makes me so mad. And Wicked. I just didn't like it.

The second one was better .. we'll have to see if he's improved with the third installment.

furyalecto wrote:I think I may be in trouble with dear wife if I spend too much more time in another forum so I may be scarce.

"Welcome" to you both!

pamleidt · Post by **pamleidt** » Tue Aug 14, 2007 9:33 pm

My name is Pam and I decided to try the discussion forums as I moved 2000 miles from home and know NOBODY here that I would like to be friends with.

As for my reading preferences:

1. Favorite Genre - ANYthing that is well written. Doesn't matter. I read it all. I seem to have more sci-fi/fantasy than anything else though...
2. Favorite Author - would probably be a toss up between C J Cherryh and Christopher Moore - for very different reasons, of course, and explains why I can't decide!

3. Favorite Author that's not in Favorite Genre - n/a
4. How/Why you picked your Member-Name - It is my name.
5. How you found IBDoF I was searching for a discussion group, and this one looked like the best.
6. Name one book you would never recommend to a friend - Anything by Danielle Steel or Nora Roberts. (mom loves them - keeps trying to push on me. YUCK!!)
7. Top 5 books/series - 1. Cherryh - extended Foreigner series
2. Christopher Moore - Lamb
3. Orson Scott Card - Enders Game
4. Cherryh - Cyteen
5. Janet Evanovich "Stephanie Plum" series

As you can see, I really am rather schizophrenic in my reading - and you should see my shelves!

I look forward to meeting and talking with all of you.

Pam

Post by **laurie** » Tue Aug 14, 2007 9:40 pm

Welcome to the Forum, Pam!

pamleidt · Post by **pamleidt** » Tue Aug 14, 2007 9:49 pm

Thank you Laurie! I was just reading through earlier posts and saying to myself - "but I loved that book too!" Sounds wierd, huh? But when asked to name a favorite book, I kinda freeze and then just name the first one that comes to mind!

Post by **laurie** » Tue Aug 14, 2007 11:23 pm

pamleidt wrote:I was just reading through earlier posts and saying to myself - "but I loved that book too!" Sounds wierd, huh? But when asked to name a favorite book, I kinda freeze and then just name the first one that comes to mind!

I'm really the same way. If I'm forced to choose, I usually come up with something, but afterwards I'll think of a dozen more. My list of "favorites" is probably in the hundreds...

voralfred · Post by **voralfred** » Wed Aug 15, 2007 8:00 am

furyalecto wrote:I think I may be in trouble with dear wife if I spend too much more time in another forum so I may be scarce.

Sounds familiar....

Welcome to furyalecto and all newcomers I was too alzy to welxome individually.

poncho88 · Post by **poncho88** » Thu Aug 16, 2007 12:12 am

I'm Robert, 35, an English major (that's how I see myself, still, I think), copy editor and unpublished novelist.

1. Favorite Genre:
the novel ... as in *T*he *N*ovel. The Sun Also Rises, The Sound and the Fury, Ulysses, August 1914, Catch-22 ... those things.

2. Favorite Author:
Evelyn Waugh, Kurt Vonnegut

3. Favorite Author that's not in Favorite Genre:
P.G. Wodehouse

4. How/Why you picked your Member-Name:
it's my adopted cat's name & the number of my all-time favorite Dallas Cowboy

5. How you found IBDoF:
(how do you think?) Google

6. Name one book you would never recommend to a friend:
_Ulysses_ (or anything written by an American writer before 1910)

7. Top 5 books/series:
(this is impossible, but ...)
1. The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway
2. Cat's Cradle by Kurt Vonnegut
3. Decline and Fall by Evelyn Waugh
4. Billiards at Half-Past Nine by Heinrich Boll
5. The Hitchiker's Guide to the Galaxy series by Douglas Adams

(*and* the Lord of the Rings ... *and* everything by Faulkner ... *and* everything else by Vonnegut and Waugh ... and Stephen King's The Gunslinger ... and ...)[/i]

tollbaby · Post by **tollbaby** » Thu Aug 16, 2007 4:30 am

Welcome Robert

I hope you've discovered in us a welcoming new home!

gpackin · Post by **gpackin** » Thu Aug 16, 2007 6:52 am

poncho88 wrote:1. Favorite Genre:
the novel ... as in *T*he *N*ovel. The Sun Also Rises, The Sound and the Fury, Ulysses, August 1914, Catch-22 ... those things.

6. Name one book you would never recommend to a friend:
_Ulysses_ (or anything written by an American writer before 1910)

Hi and welcome poncho88.

Question: How can Ulysses be a favorite yet a book you would never recommend to a friend?

Zybahn · Post by **Zybahn** » Thu Aug 16, 2007 10:47 am

poncho88 wrote: 6. Name one book you would never recommend to a friend:
_Ulysses_ (or anything written by an American writer before 1910)

Welcome Poncho,

I have a question regarding the second portion of #6: Why? American Lit is not my fortÃ©, nor my favourite subject, but I'm nonetheless curious about your stance here. Mark Schorer wrote a fascinating essay on early American Lit (pre-1950) and attributes its failures to the lack of "experience" of early America. Personally I haven't yet read enough to have a firm opinion of his argument. (With your permission, perhaps we can start a new thread if anyone wants to discuss.)

(Here for a minute & already stirring up some controversy

)

Bmat · Post by **Bmat** » Mon Aug 20, 2007 6:52 pm

Hi, Everyone! I'm Bmat. I help moderate a couple SF/F sites, one of which is geared toward writers. I am re-reading Cherryh's Foreigner series, and I came upon "pissaciously" and searched around for a meaning and found your site by a friend googling and finding the old thread about it- April, 2004. I do have what is probably the meaning, by the way, not from an official source but from my sister. Anyway, I read the thread, then looked around, and decided that I like it here, so I decided to stay around if you all would have me.

1. Favorite Genre

Probably SF is my favorite, although I enjoy light mysteries, also.

2. Favorite Author

Cherryh

3. Favorite Author that's not in Favorite Genre

Umberto Eco

4. How/Why you picked your Member-Name

Long story. When I first got online, the first thing I did was locate a Babylon 5 site and wanted to join it. I needed a username, and being totally without imagination or cleverness I combined my first name with my last to make a Narn name. Over time the apostrophe got dropped.

5. How you found IBDoF

A friend found it by googling "pissaciously"

6. Name one book you would never recommend to a friend

Connie Willis's Doomsday Book. It is very well-written, but I found it lastingly upsetting. So if a friend asked if I'd recommend it, I'd have to ask the friend about whether the friend found upsetting books good reading.

7. Top 5 books/series

The Foreigner Series - Cherryh
The Amber Series- Zelazny
The Hospital series- White
The Vorkosigan series- Bujold
The Hitchhiker series - Adams

Post by **clong** » Mon Aug 20, 2007 6:59 pm

Welcome Bmat!

Sekem · Post by **Sekem** » Tue Aug 21, 2007 9:38 am

Hi, my real name is Ben. I am 30 years old and married to my lovely wife. I have no children, but my 4 cats make up for this

... I've just started as a student at the Erasmus University in Rotterdam (the Netherlands). Hopefully I'll be a registered Clinical/GZ Psychologist in about 5/7 years >.<... To finance all of this I help people as a social worker and get paid for it as well... wow

I used to be a gamer, for approx. 25 years, but I needed to end this habbit of mine. So I went cold turkey and started reading books instead and I have to say that I haven't had so much fun in a very VERY long time.

1. Favorite Genre: Science Fiction/Fantasy/Essays (sociological, anthropological and psychological)

2. Favorite Author: Currently this is Robin Hobb (Margaret Astrid Lindholm Ogden)

3. Favorite Author that's not in Favorite Genre: Goethe's Faust

4. How/Why you picked your Member-Name: It's a song made by a band I very much like. And I just like the sound of it.

5. How did you found IBDoF: I searched for 'Dan Simmons' on Google and found a link to this site.

6. Name one book you would never recommend to a friend: Magician: Apprentice and Master by Raymond E. Feist

7. Top 5 books/series:
1. Robin Hobb - The Fareseer Trilogy
2. Robin Hobb - The Liveship Traders Trilogy
3. Robin Hobb - The Tawny Man Trilogy
4. Stephen King - The Dark Tower series
5. Norbert Elias - The Established and the Outsiders

My top 5 books will change in time. I haven't read a lot of books (yet). My next buy will be Hyperion, Fall of Hyperion, Endymion and The Rise of Endymion by Dan Simmons ... and I think that they will end up in my top 5 books ...

but I'll need to find the time to read them first

Nighteyes · Post by **Nighteyes** » Thu Aug 23, 2007 8:44 am

Sekem wrote:
7. Top 5 books/series:
1. Robin Hobb - The Fareseer Trilogy
2. Robin Hobb - The Liveship Traders Trilogy
3. Robin Hobb - The Tawny Man Trilogy

Now there's a man of excellent taste in fantasy literature.

My next buy will be Hyperion, Fall of Hyperion, Endymion and The Rise of Endymion by Dan Simmons ... and I think that they will end up in my top 5 books ... but I'll need to find the time to read them first

Man, are you in for a treat... I wish could read the Hyperion Cantos again for the very first time... that is a truly brilliant series, easily Simmon's best.

Welcom to the board, Sekem, enjoy your stay.

Meredith · Post by **Meredith** » Wed Aug 29, 2007 7:26 am

Hi! My name is Meredith. I'm from Amherst, Viriginia. I deliver pizza for a small take-out shop. I also attend a techincal school, where I'm studying wood working and carpentry. I play soccer in a local adult league. I'm what you would call a science fiction geek. I have been since as long as I can remember. I read comics. I play role playing games. My favorite article of clothing is my Silver Surfer tee shirt. I watch the new Battlestar Galactica religiously. What can I say? I like what I like and it's a lot of fun.

My favorite genre is science fiction.

My favorite author is Elizabeth Moon.

My favorite non sci fi author is James Patterson.

Meredith is my real name. My mother thought it was pretty.

I found out about the IBDoF reading a review on Amazon.

One book I would not recommend to a friend is The Guns of August by Barbara W. Tuchman. I know it won the Pulitzer Prize but reading it was like pulling teeth to me.

Five all time favorites are;
The Vatta's War series by Elizabeth Moon
Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson
Peter Pan by J.M. Barrie
The Barsoom books by Edgar Rice Burroughs
The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien

tollbaby · Post by **tollbaby** » Wed Aug 29, 2007 7:49 am

Welcome Meredith! Wow... you're a busy lady

I was never coordinated enough to play footy LOL My father (a carpenter/wooworker by hobby, if not by trade) would have killed for a daughter like you. It's about all I can do to drive a nail without bending it

I've never read any Elizabeth Moon, but I think I shall have to give her a try (I'm more into McCaffrey, Lackey and the like, but that's mainly due to availability rather than preference).

mccormack44 · Post by **mccormack44** » Wed Aug 29, 2007 1:21 pm

TB:

We all know I make "weird connections" but to me, Elizabeth Moon has somewhat of the flavor of McCaffrey and Lackeyâ€”with the exception that her battle scenes are much more authentic. (But that's ok with me, because I generally just skim battle scenes anyway. They don't ever make much sense to me). This is particularly true of both the Vatta War and the Herris Serrano Heritage Series.

tollbaby · Post by **tollbaby** » Wed Aug 29, 2007 1:39 pm

Sue, no argument from me... I simply have read a lot of McCaffrey/Lackey because that's what my sister-in-law gave me

sweetharleygirl · Post by **sweetharleygirl** » Wed Aug 29, 2007 6:12 pm

Welcome to the forum Meredith.

Post by **KiltanneN** » Thu Aug 30, 2007 12:15 am

mccormack44 wrote:I generally just skim battle scenes anyway. They don't ever make much sense to me).

I would suggest staying way the hell away from David Weber's Honor Harrington series then - Great Books but you need to be a serious Space Opera Battle scene's junkie to really enjoy them...

BTW - Welcome to the board Meredith!

[Where were you when I was single and looking for a soul mate? My wife is hardly interested in reading at all - and what she does read is typically historical drama/ romance not the "SciFi rubbish" <-- her words that I am into...]

Post by **laurie** » Thu Aug 30, 2007 12:58 am

KiltanneN wrote:"SciFi rubbish" <-- her words

My words, too.

Meredith · Post by **Meredith** » Thu Aug 30, 2007 6:27 am

HONOR HARRINGTON ROCKS!

If you're into military science fiction, the Battletech books are pretty good.

mrdude · Post by **mrdude** » Thu Aug 30, 2007 7:18 am

KiltanneN wrote:I would suggest staying way the hell away from David Weber's Honor Harrington series then - Great Books but you need to be a serious Space Opera Battle scene's junkie to really enjoy them...

Meredith wrote:HONOR HARRINGTON ROCKS!

hmmmm... I think you may have just given something away Meredith

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