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I do adore Thurber, though. I must dig him out and have another go at him.
Missed this the last time.... and just wanted to give you a hug.Impenitent wrote:Currently reading Queen Bees and Wannabees. Research on bringing up a teenage daughter. I've got my head deep in parenting books at the moment as I'm having a little crisis of confidence in my parenting skills.
One of my treasured possessions! I also have scads of old, falling-apart paperback scifi books, collections of short stories and novels, etc. and every once in awhile I start from one end of the shelf and read to the other.Teremia wrote:great reading choice, themary, and hi there! Not that you're online anymore, being caught up in a good book and all......
I am reading . . . . the Norton Anthology of Science Fiction. Ursula K. LeGuin is one of the editors. I got it at the American Library here -- wanted as much escapist speculative fiction as possible within one binding.And it turns out to have been an excellent choice -- must be 700 pages of short stories. A whole education in the Short Form!
They sort the stories chronologically, and I'm up to 1981.
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Tolkien didn't like Dune either (as I have mentioned before). I don't think I would call Frank Herbert a "good writer". I still love Dune very much, however.yovargas wrote:I had somehow never gotten around to reading Dune, despite always meaning to. And now that I finally have, recently having finished the first book, my main conclusion is - Frank Herbert was a bad writer.