Date: Tue, 26 Mar 2002 14:24:48 -0500
To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at keithlynch.net>
From: Candy Madigan <candymadigan at mindspring.com>
Subject: [WSFA] Re: reading likes and dislikes
Cc: WSFA members <WSFAlist at keithlynch.net>
Reply-To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at keithlynch.net>

Oh!  And the cover art!  Bright cheerful colors, looks really
happy.  Especially the second book.

So, based on the cover and the blurb and having read his Ethshar books...

Not a book I would have bought, much less read if it hadn't been so=
 misleading.

At 11:23 AM 03/26/2002 -0800, Cathy Green wrote:
>I definitely agree with you regarding Out of this
>World.  I had read Crosstime Traffic and thought it
>was a lot of fun.  I checked Out of this World out of
>the library based on cover blurbs that made it sound
>like a fun romp and a quick skim of the first chapter,
>when the book's mood was still light.  bit of a shock
>when all of a sudden the hero's family is wiped out
>and all the female characters have been raped.  Most
>disconcerting.  Wouldn't have minded as much if I'd
>known it was coming. Of course, I probably wouldn't
>have read the book then.
>
>--cathy
>--- Candy Madigan <candymadigan at mindspring.com> wrote:
>
> > My tastes are rather plebian.  I also am easily
> > upset by what I read, so
> > when I read something I want a happy ending.  And
> > the middle better hadn't
> > be too scary or upsetting.
> >
> > I loved all of Lawrence Watt-Evans' Ethshar books,
> > so I picked up Out of
> > This World and In the Empire of Shadow.  Awful.
> > When he killed off the
> > hero's wife and kid (he sent a six year old girl off
> > to die as a slave for
> > ghod's sake), I flipped to the back to see if he was
> > going to pull some
> > sort of happy ending out of his hat, and when he
> > didn't, I put the book
> > aside and had nightmares for weeks.  I'll probably
> > have nightmares tonight
> > just from remembering it.  So now, when I see a LWE
> > book the first thing I
> > do is check to see if it's an Ethshar book.  If it
> > is, I'll buy it,
> > otherwise...
> >
> > And we won't even get into the psychoanalyzing of
> > the author that this invites.
> >
>
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Candy