tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29616976.post4707334214258686592..comments2024-02-20T07:06:56.933+00:00Comments on THE SKINNER: The Whatever BlogNeal Asherhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13933911904170752700noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29616976.post-18190403631123453522009-02-21T18:25:00.000+00:002009-02-21T18:25:00.000+00:00Dune is meaningless against Herbert's Whipping Sta...Dune is meaningless against Herbert's Whipping Star. more concise and alien than what Dune was extrapolating from the Jack Vance short it's based on. thats an opinion tho, you must believe me when i insist. set down the billy club.<BR/><BR/>dunno if i can bring myself to read Wyrms. he has damaged me in the only way a mormon can. by changing my hands into golden skulls preventing me from having 100 wives and a planet.vaudeviewgalor raandisisraisinshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12045187732283895410noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29616976.post-61117267160707744402009-02-19T19:36:00.000+00:002009-02-19T19:36:00.000+00:00Total disagreement with you there, Vaude. Loved Du...Total disagreement with you there, Vaude. Loved Dune and all that followed it. Love Orson Scott Card, though Ender's Game isn't top of my list, Wyrms is.Neal Asherhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13933911904170752700noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29616976.post-41229349267575885832009-02-19T18:09:00.000+00:002009-02-19T18:09:00.000+00:00the novelty of an audience, never thought of that ...the novelty of an audience, never thought of that angle.<BR/><BR/>i regret reading crappy books because they sold a lot. Dune for one. Orson Scott Card for another.vaudeviewgalor raandisisraisinshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12045187732283895410noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29616976.post-80369818709737644062009-02-17T19:11:00.000+00:002009-02-17T19:11:00.000+00:00Phew he didn't pull any punches but it is all so p...Phew he didn't pull any punches but it is all so painfully true and you have to consider that it is a business and therefore he has to give priority to the chrematistic side of his life. <BR/><BR/>However it makes me feel even <I>more</I> privileged now though, too :)<BR/><BR/>It's a blessing, I suppose, that it takes me about 40 years to complete a novel and therefore will probably be dead before I ever find myself in the position of asking a SF author for a 'hug' again...<BR/><BR/><I>bloviate means "to speak pompously and excessively," or "to expound ridiculously." A colloquial verb coined in the United States</I>Bob Lockhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03141837277102776901noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29616976.post-84781856310182665872009-02-17T16:20:00.000+00:002009-02-17T16:20:00.000+00:00'bloviate' was a word Mr Scalzi used. Buggered if ...'bloviate' was a word Mr Scalzi used. Buggered if I know what he means by it.Neal Asherhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13933911904170752700noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29616976.post-35718370013257160922009-02-17T15:37:00.000+00:002009-02-17T15:37:00.000+00:00bloviated!?!Somewhere in everyone of your books th...bloviated!?!<BR/><BR/>Somewhere in everyone of your books that I have read there is at least one word that throws me.<BR/><BR/>And I think my vocabulary is pretty good.<BR/><BR/>So you can add 'Educational' along with 'violent' and 'visceral' to the back of your books.Paulhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09183183478694777480noreply@blogger.com