On Thu, 19 Dec 2002 08:58:33 -0700, you wrote: >>The other books, ie. >>Freedom and Necessity, Ayagar, Cowbot Fengs, I read as I could find them in >>bookstores. I enjoyed them all very much. > >For whatever reason, I've never enjoyed CF. For that matter, of the short >stories of his, that I've read, I find that I really haven't liked his >science fiction nearly as much as I've enjoyed his fantasy works. > >Okay, new topic: which, if any, of Brust's books have you *not* enjoyed? I thought I had replied, but apparently got it wrong. Oops. I loved Cowboy Feng. I really loved To Reign In Hell. But I have the hardest time getting through Freedom and Necessity. All my friends love it. My wife devoured it in a matter of hours. It's not the characters, it's not even the writing. I just have a brutally difficult time reading epistolary novels. I have no idea why, I just can't get into the rhythm of it. -- lazarus "Therefore, my Harry, Be it thy course to busy giddy minds with foreign quarrels; that action, hence borne out, may waste the memory of the former days." -- King Henry IV, Part ii Act 4, Scene 5