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Name | Date | Lines |
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| 994.1 | The Little Country | WMOIS::BEAUREGARD_D | | Tue Jun 25 1991 12:47 | 4 |
| I just read "The Little Country" - it held my interest from beginning to
end.
Dan
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| 994.2 | | NOTIBM::MCGHIE | Thank Heaven for small Murphys ! | Tue Jun 25 1991 22:38 | 8 |
| New release ?
down this way you normally have to wait a few months after the rest of
the world for booksm and the selection is not too good either.
thanks
Mike
Adelaide,(Downunder) Australia
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| 994.3 | Charles DeLint - excellent author! | CADSE::CRAUNAKIS | Linda Craunakis, MIDAS Business Office, 287-3096 | Wed Sep 04 1991 14:04 | 12 |
| Hi,
I've read a number of DeLint's books (cannot recall all of the titles)
and enjoy his writing immensely. I will check at home this evening to
find out which of his books I have - and I'll reply here again ... if
you're interested in having these books, please let me know, and maybe
some kind of exchange could be arranged (depending on how much the
postage costs, of course!) :-)
bye-for-now,
Linda C.
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| 994.4 | in a country far far away... | NOTNCR::MCGHIE | Thank Heaven for small Murphys ! | Wed Sep 04 1991 20:59 | 8 |
| Hi Linda,
just the titles would be nice, exchange could be difficult given
geographic dispersion...
thanks
Mike
(Downunder in Adelaide)
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| 994.5 | caveat | CULT::CONNELLY | Television must be destroyed! | Thu Sep 05 1991 01:18 | 24 |
|
I can recall (i think) at least the following titles off the top of my head:
_The Riddle of the Wren_
_Moonheart_
_The Harp of the Grey Rose_
_Wolf Moon_
_Svaha_
_Jack the Giant Killer_
_Drink Down the Moon_
_Greenmantle_
_Yarrow_
_The Little Country_
After reading _Moonheart_, i was totally enthused about DeLint, but it
seems to me since then that he: writes too fast, has way too many viewpoint
characters per novel (discussed in a separate note), blatantly imitates
Stephen King's style in a number of his works, and is well on his way to
developing a set of stock characters reminiscent of Robert Heinlein or
Charles Harness (both frequently quite good writers) at their worst.
I still buy anything new he gets published but my patience is wearing thin.
He seems to be pissing a *lot* of talent away by writing too much too fast.
paul
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| 994.6 | | NOTIBM::MCGHIE | Thank Heaven for small Murphys ! | Fri Sep 06 1991 06:09 | 10 |
| Interestlingly enough I found a *new* SF bookshop yesterday. They had two Delint books
on the shelf so I grabbed them. One is "Drink Down the Moon" (a sequel to "Jack").
The other I'm not sure. It's at home.
I'll try a few more of his books before I make any hard and fast decisions. I certainly
enjoyed "Jack the Giant Killer".
thanks
Mike
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| 994.7 | Have a trip down the YARROW | ARRODS::WHITAKER | The man from Hull | Fri Jun 19 1992 06:08 | 9 |
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Hi,
I have just finished "YARROW" and I was hooked from the start
to the end. It's one of the best reads I have had for a while.
While there are some similarities with Green Mantle (the only other
Delint book I have read) I thought the story was better.
Andy
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| 994.8 | Spirit Walk | LABRYS::CONNELLY | globally suboptimized in '92 | Fri Jun 19 1992 22:35 | 9 |
|
He's got a new one (i have my order in with SFBC) called _Spirit Walk_.
Apparently some of the same characters as in _Moonheart_ (which is still
my favorite of his books, although having read some of the others i now
see some of his flaws in that one too). He's certainly got that Stephen
King page-turner technique down...sometimes i wonder if that stands in
the way of his writing a really great, thematically ambitious book!
paul
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