"Joe Lynch" <joelynch at inreach.com> writes: > I fork over for my favorite authors.... (Mr. Brust, GRR Martin, Glen Cook) > > Besides, I reread books, so it's nice having something that won't fall apart > in a year or two. It'd be nice if the books were thicker though. :) You should like the next ones, then. I think it's the biggest stack of paper I've ever seen representing one "work" (will be three books I believe as published). I'm a rereader too. Do you have any idea how you acquired the habit? My crackpot theory on it is that, when I'd read everything in the library with a rocketship on the spine, I had to start over, and I got used to it. Whatever, I *do* like rereading a lot. And it's not always the books I consider best that I reread, it's very strange. I think really *really* highly of Zelazny's _Lord of Light_, for example, but have only read it half a dozen or so times I think. Whereas I've reread about all the Doc Smith books more than that. I love them, but they're not "as good" in any meaningful sense I can think of. Ah well. Brains. They're just too complicated. -- David Dyer-Bennet, dd-b at dd-b.net / New TMDA anti-spam in test John Dyer-Bennet 1915-2002 Memorial Site http://john.dyer-bennet.net Book log: http://www.dd-b.net/dd-b/Ouroboros/booknotes/ New Dragaera mailing list, see http://dragaera.info