Date: Tue, 26 Mar 2002 15:02:40 -0500
From: "Michael Walsh" <MJW at mail.press.jhu.edu>
To: <WSFAlist at keithlynch.net>
Subject: [WSFA] Covers, Re: reading likes and dislikes
Reply-To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at keithlynch.net>

Now, what is she doing there . . . is it smoke?  Hmmmmmm.
http://www.fantasticfiction.co.uk/books/n12781_1.htm?authorid=6883

mjw

>>> leeandalexis at hotmail.com 03/26/02 02:42PM >>>
My question is about the editors who give us this kind if impression =
and
allow us to walk into the trap.  Yes, thet sell the books, but...

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

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

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