urge...to canon...fading...!

[phosfate]

Oh dear. Oh my.

::puts Mercedes Lackey and Ann Rice novels in wastebasket::

::throws up in wastebasket::

That's better.

Damn, I bet that CSI novel would've sold, too...

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[finabair.livejournal.com]

Hey...erm...

You could give me the Mercedes Lackey ones. I mean, y'know, I like 'em and all. Although probably, I've already got them. So nevermind.

[annlarimer.livejournal.com]

::looks askance at contents of wastebasket, now safely bagged::

You...you don't want these copies. Trust me.

(Actually I like her Diana Tregarde books. Naturally she stopped writing them.)

[finabair.livejournal.com]

Well, yeah, once you threw up on them they would have to be DARNED good for me to want 'em...

I felt much the same about the Diana Tregarde stuff. I heard they weren't popular enough for the publishing company to keep publishing them. I don't get why, since everyone seems to have liked them best. I'm still mad about that. My copies of "Burning Water" kept falling apart so I bought multiple copies...you'd think that would have helped the publishing statistics a bit. But the stores had shelved the Tregarde novels poorly - sometimes they were in "fantasy/sci fi", sometimes they were in "horror", and sometimes they were in "fiction". Which can't have helped sales any. You can't find a book, you don't buy it, and this predated Amazon.com by many years.

*sigh*

But I like the Valdemaran stuff as well, even when it seems like I've read this book before with different names attached...and I like "The Fire Rose" and the more recent ones that are similar to that. I'm just a big ol' mind-candy-oholic. Not as big on the elves with racing habits, but will still enjoy them when I'm in the right frame of mind. 'cuz you can enjoy pretty much anything if you're in the right frame of mind...

[annlarimer.livejournal.com]

I haven't tried Valdemar. I'm scared of the googly-eyed horses on the covers. I tried the hard-drivin' Sidhe stuff, and it made me want to eat paste.

[finabair.livejournal.com]

See, that goes back to my "HORSIE!!!" reaction. It had a horse, I had to read it. It's a moral imperative that seems completely built into my psyche. There are a few things that I can resist, but they're, y'know, horror or romance genre. If it's in the fantasy/sci fi shelves I'm generally doomed.

[annlarimer.livejournal.com]

Hm.

::tries to think of anything with horsies, fails spectacularly::

[finabair.livejournal.com]

Well, other than Mercedes Lackey stuff and Kristin Britain's book, um...anything by Marguerite Henry? Not to mention "Black Beauty".

(Little distracted here, Buffy being on and all. I can think of more later if you'd like.)

[ragdoll.livejournal.com]

Now you just have to turn over the Robert Jordan novels and I promise to call off the intervention. ;)

[annlarimer.livejournal.com]

:: propels pile of Jordan toward you with a long pole ::

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[ragdoll.livejournal.com]

I will repel your Robert Jordan novels with my George R.R. Martin books. ;)

[jrrtolkien.livejournal.com]

I made you a cheeseburger.

[annlarimer.livejournal.com]

Thanks, Perfesser T! You rock.

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[jrrtolkien.livejournal.com]

So do you! :D

[nitasee.livejournal.com]

I'm assuming you were trying to read the Valdimar novels. I could have warned you, but I figure you needed to learn for yourself. Let me give you a "there, there" and hand you some nice, soothing books by Emma Bull or Ellen Kushner.

[finabair.livejournal.com]

Will you lose all respect for me if I tell you I *like* the Valdemar novels?

[annlarimer.livejournal.com]

I can't say a thing. I'm voluntarily reading a Star Trek novel.