I am an unabashed Brust fan. I'd read his treatment of grocery store labels if it came to that. He is my favorite author (even over Zelazny, for reasons that still baffle me, as he was from Minnesota). I have sent two or three e-mails over the years (trying not to wear out my welcome) and he has always courteously and promptly replied, which only deepened my respect and admiration-from-a-distance. With that said, I had a hard time getting into PotD and found LoCB to be tough sledding until maybe 100 pages in. It's taking off now, but I'm not getting the glee of writing Paarfi that I got from PG and FHYA, the simple love of playing with Paafi's particular cadence that positively glowed from the first two works. With that said, I read "It is returned, or I am a norska" over lunch, and I'm still grinning like an idiot. Of course, I am from Wisconsin, and that explains itself right there. johne (phy) cook breezeway, wisconsin, usa blog: http://breezeway.blogspot.com forum: http://forum.instagiber.com/index.php?h=1&pf=268 stormfort list: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/stormfort/ >From: Randi128 at aol.com >To: dragaera at dragaera.info >Subject: Re: A Mighty Thundering of LoCB Comments (No SPOILERS) >Date: Tue, 12 Aug 2003 15:47:03 EDT > > >> >1) My copy had the glue/binding problem as well.. > >> unnoticeable, except when > >> >reading... > >>> Oh, good, I feel somewhat better knowing I'm not the>only one with a >shoddy copy. > >>Make that three. But it wasn't too bad. I've gotten much worse. >Atleast >the binding is staying on. > >And the content more than makes up for it. > >My copy is the same. And I also have gotten books in worse condition. I had >assumed that I was the only one with a bad binding job. Now I know better. > >PS: I am only about halfway done, and I am enjoying the book thoroughly. >Steve is an excellent story teller, with a twisted imagination. > >John D. Barbato OD > _________________________________________________________________ MSN 8 with e-mail virus protection service: 2 months FREE* http://join.msn.com/?page=features/virus