[bookshare-discuss] Re: characters that make you smile

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  • Date: Fri, 14 Mar 2008 08:22:42 -0500

I'm not sure, but I seem to remember that project gutenberg has some titles by George R. R. Martin. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Ron Miller" <ron@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> 

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 Good morning,
I really liked the Tuf stories in analog. I believe, Mushroom was
actually his cat.

I couldn't find the tuf Voyaging book in a cursory Google search, but
found that Audible.com has an unabridged title by George R. R. martin
called A Taste Of tuf which might be interesting.

best to all


Ron Miller

-----Original Message-----
From: EVAN REESE [mailto:mentat3@xxxxxxxxxxx]
Sent: Thursday, March 13, 2008 3:49 PM
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There was a great set of stories published in Analog back in the
eighties by George R. R. Martin about a guy named Havlin Tuff. They were
collected in one volume called Tuff voyaging. Tuff was kind of like Nero
Wolfe in some ways, with a great fondness for mushrooms if my memory
isn't failing me. He traveled around in this huge ship which he acquired
by means I  forget at the moment, and getting into various troubles.

Evan
----- Original Message ----- From: "duane iverson" <diverson@xxxxxxxxxx> 
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Sent: Wednesday, March 12, 2008 10:05 PM
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A little Science Fiction.
For characters you can't beat the Hokah. Meter-tall teddy bears who

like

to imitate other cultures. The Old Star Trek episode where Kirk and
company land on a planet much like 1920's Chicago is a pale tribute to



Poul Anderson and Gordon Dixon's stories. The complete Hokah stories

are

collected in The Sound and The Furry up on Bookshare. I am luckey

enough

to have preserved The Many Worlds of Pooul Anderson read by (who else)



Robert Donley. In there is the Sheriff of Canyon Gulch Which will roll

you

on the floor. even when you have read it before. Also try the High

Crusade

by Anderson.
If you can find Double Star by Heinlein. Good but not as good as the
version read by Allen Hewitt. (Eat your hearts out people!
I believe there is a good anthology on NLS edited by Stan Schmidt on
humorous Sci Fi.
Also Charles Sheffield's The Complete McAndrew is good. He wrote a

number

of stories about an attorney named Waldo who was always getting in to
scrapes, but I don't know if they were ever collected. They were an

old in

the Old Galaxy Magazine back in the 70's.
----- Original Message ----- From: "susan l. gerhart" <slger123@xxxxxxxxx> 
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Sent: Wednesday, March 12, 2008 6:47 PM
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amanda cross  byc.  heilbrun.
drinking english  ny prof dic.  Wed, 12 Mar 2008 19:20:11 -0400,
Estelnalissi wrote:



Dear Booksharian Friends,

Junie B Jones, Kindergartener and First Grader  always makes me smile.
I'm validating Junie B. Jones Is Captain Field Day this afternoon and
Bookshare will soon have all of the books in both of the Junie B.
Series.Junie B. is right up there with Ramona.

Amelia Peabody is funny and Emerson, Father of Curses, such a blow

hard,

is no slouch, either!

Agatha Raisin, who calls her female competition, "Old Trouts," Cheats

in

contests, bites off people's heads and gets her feelings easily hurt,
cracks me up in the cozy mysteries by M. C. Beaton.

My dear soft hearted Hagrid, in Harry Potter, who mops up his tears

with

tablecloths, knits and makes excuses for all creatures, even when they
draw blood, lightens the mood and is my kind of hero.

Touchy, self important, Hercule Perrot is mildly funny. I don't laugh
out loud at him, but have to smile.

Nero Wolfe and Archie are funny. Archie thinks he's such a babe and

Nero

is so spoiled. Archie is about the only person alive who would dare be
sarcastic about or to Nero, but he thinks his boss has cornered the
market when it comes to brains, and is ever loyal.

And Stephanie Plum, that whole series makes me laugh out loud. Janet
Evanovitch Rocks. Grandma Mazer, fan of funerals and grabber of high
caliber weaponry, and Lula the ex hoe, diet queen, and the one who

eggs

people on in dangerous situations from her safe hiding place behind a
couch which is big enough to conceal her, or from behind a mop where
everything hangs out but she still thinks she's hiding. I may never

get

over Stephanie and Lula at the Elvis impersonators convention in Las
Vegas!

Can anyone remind me of the southern widow's name who is funny, too.
She's in books like Blank takes a stand. Her dead husband left her

well

off and she took in his mistress and her young son. She lives across

the

street from a church where she terrorizes the minister. To raise money
to save a trailer park she rides in a motor cycle rally practically
kicking and screaming the whole way while I, the reader, was jealous.

I admire authors who write humor. I'm impressed when they pull off a
little humor. When they write series  sustaining humor throughout

entire

novels I'm agog! When I think about it, it seems successful writers of
the humor fiction genre are the rarest. Any thoughts about that?

Always with love,

Lissi
----- Original Message ----- From: rita weyler 
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Sent: Wednesday, March 12, 2008 4:40 PM
Subject: [bookshare-discuss] characters that make you smile


Hi all
Their are certain books that are always good for a smile.  I love the
Mrs. Pollifax books.    I can just picture this feisty grandmotherly
character taking on theCIA .
I like Ellis Peter's irrasible Amelia Peabody too.
What characters can you  turn to for a guaranteed smile?
Rita
Dear Booksharian Friends,    Junie B Jones, Kindergartener and First
Grader
always makes me smile. I'm validating Junie B. Jones Is Captain Field
Day
this afternoon and Bookshare will soon have all of the books in both

of

the
Junie B. Series.Junie B. is right up there with Ramona.     Amelia
Peabody is funny and Emerson, Father of
Curses, such a blow hard, is no slouch, either!    Agatha Raisin, who
calls her female competition,
"Old Trouts," Cheats in contests, bites off people's heads and gets

her

feelings
easily hurt, cracks me up in the cozy mysteries by M. C. Beaton.

My

dear soft hearted Hagrid, in Harry Potter, who
mops up his tears with tablecloths, knits and makes excuses for all
creatures,
even when they draw blood, lightens the mood and is my kind of hero.
Touchy, self important, Hercule Perrot is mildly
funny. I don't laugh out loud at him, but have to smile.     Nero

Wolfe

and Archie are funny. Archie thinks he's
such a babe and Nero is so spoiled. Archie is about the only person
alive who
would dare be sarcastic about or to Nero, but he thinks his boss has
cornered
the market when it comes to brains, and is ever loyal.     And

Stephanie

Plum, that whole series makes me
laugh out loud. Janet Evanovitch Rocks. Grandma Mazer, fan of funerals
and
grabber of high caliber weaponry, and Lula the ex hoe, diet queen, and
the one
who eggs people on in dangerous situations from her safe hiding place
behind a
couch which is big enough to conceal her, or from behind a mop where
everything
hangs out but she still thinks she's hiding. I may never get over
Stephanie and
Lula at the Elvis impersonators convention in Las Vegas!    Can anyone
remind me of the southern widow's name
who is funny, too. She's in books like Blank takes a stand. Her dead
husband
left her well off and she took in his mistress and her young son. She
lives
across the street from a church where she terrorizes the minister. To
raise
money to save a trailer park she rides in a motor cycle rally
practically
kicking and screaming the whole way while I, the reader, was jealous.
I admire authors who write humor. I'm impressed
when they pull off a little humor. When they write series  sustaining
humor
throughout entire novels I'm agog! When I think about it, it seems
successful
writers of the humor fiction genre are the rarest. Any thoughts about
that?
Always with love,    Lissi    ----- Original Message -----   From:

rita


weyler   To:  bookshare-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx   Sent:  Wednesday,

March

12, 2008 4:40
PM  Subject:  [bookshare-discuss] characters
that make you smile   Hi all  Their are certain books that are always
good for
a smile.  I love the Mrs. Pollifax books.    I can just
picture this feisty grandmotherly character taking on theCIA
.   I like Ellis Peter's irrasible Amelia Peabody
too.  What characters can you  turn to for a
guaranteed smile?  Rita


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