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Owl  ·  4036 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: What's up Hubski?

Sure, why not. Once I start reading something I finish it. It can't be any worse than Robert A. Heinlein's I Will Fear No Evil (I liked a few of his other stuff, but that novel...) or Ayn Rand's The Fountainhead. I'm in for the longhaul, and I'm always open to have my mind changed. People hated Jane Eyre and I liked that.





mk  ·  4036 days ago  ·  link  ·  

I'm the same way. I can count the books I haven't finished on one hand. Atlas Shrugged and The Fall are the only two that come to mind.

Nothing like finishing a dreadful book.

_refugee_  ·  4035 days ago  ·  link  ·  

I quite enjoy Jane Eyre. I have read it more than P&P by far.

lil  ·  4036 days ago  ·  link  ·  

You read Stranger in a Strange Land and went looking for other stuff? Is that it?

Owl  ·  4036 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Nah; Just picked up a couple of paperbacks in a yard sale for a quarter a pop. None of his more renown works, unfortunately.

I read Puppet Masters and Farmer in the Sky and figured they were decent enough. They weren't anything amazing, but for pulpy sci-fi they were quick reads that threw concepts at you for further thought. Then I decided between Glory Road, Space Cadet and I Will Fear No Evil, and choose Evil because it seemed hefty and the name sounded cool.

Now I don't wanna touch the rest for a while. I'll read them since I bought them, but they'll be sitting there until maybe next year.