Re: Book list

posted by [identity profile] mjlayman.livejournal.com at 09:59pm on 14/10/2007
Yes, definitely unrelated. A lot of people really like Little, Big -- it has a non-magical person marrying into a family with magical things. But I like things to happen and this is almost all description.

There are a lot of SF authors I like, but the one I read immediately when I get a new book is Jack McDevitt.
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Re: Book list

posted by [identity profile] castleclear.livejournal.com at 10:46pm on 14/10/2007
Thanks, I'll look for his work.

Additionally, I still enjoy the occasional, brilliantly written children's fantasy novel, such as Edgar Eager's HALF MAGIC.
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Re: Book list

posted by [identity profile] mjlayman.livejournal.com at 11:09pm on 14/10/2007
I just finished that set, let's see... my review (http://mjlayman.livejournal.com/118848.html) and many comments.

I like a lot of good kid's fantasy -- Diane Wynne Jones, Diane Duane, Terry Pratchett, etc. I was reading the Eager, though, because I only read kids books for a couple years when I was a kid, and now people talk about them.
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posted by [identity profile] castleclear.livejournal.com at 09:52pm on 25/10/2007
Marylee, I enjoyed reading your review. HALF MAGIC was the only Edgar Eager story I read and it definitely sounds like one of the better ones. Like many of your friends commenting on your review, I also read a large number of the traditional children's books, such as Ivanhoe, Horatio Hornblower (yawn), etc. My first S-F book was in grade school in 4th or 5th grade (circa 1970); I've wished for years that I could remember the title of it, because I remember it being pretty good. In Junior High I came across Sylvia Louise Engdahl's ENCHANTRESS FROM THE STARS, Isaac Asimov (both novels and short stories), and other "real" science fiction.
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