[bookshare-discuss] Re: characters that make you smile
- From: "Ron Miller" <ron@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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- Date: Fri, 14 Mar 2008 13:44:13 -0400
Hello Evan,
I won't prolong this thread further because, I know, we've drifted
pretty far afield. Just a final couple of thoughts:
I found more info about Tuf Voyaging on Wikipedia.com and as I think
back more I'm pretty sure his cat was named Mushroom but in the story "A
Beast For Norn" which I read in Galaxy and haven't read since, I am also
pretty sure that in that story, his cat was named Dax.
Best regards
Ron Miller
-----Original Message-----
From: EVAN REESE [mailto:mentat3@xxxxxxxxxxx]
Sent: Friday, March 14, 2008 12:09 PM
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Subject: [bookshare-discuss] Re: characters that make you smile
Ahh, your absolutely right. Mushroom was his cat. He was definitely fond
of Mushroom.
I found used trade paperback copies of Tuf Voyaging on Amazon starting
at $2.10. Used hardcovers start around $22 and there is only one used
mass market paperback coming up for a rather steep $12.95. I hadn't
heard of A Taste of Tuf.
Evan
----- Original Message -----
From: "Ron Miller" <ron@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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Sent: Friday, March 14, 2008 9:13 AM
Subject: [bookshare-discuss] Re: characters that make you smile
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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Subject: [bookshare-discuss] Re: characters that make you smile
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
Subject: [bookshare-discuss] Re: characters that make you smile
>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>
> To: <bookshare-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Wednesday, March 12, 2008 6:47 PM
> Subject: [bookshare-discuss] Re: characters that make you smile
>
>
> 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
>>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
>>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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