[bksvol-discuss] Re: Wish list: Bower-Litten contest books

  • From: "Kim Friedman" <kimfri11@xxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Sun, 05 Jul 2009 03:16:35 -0700

My pleasure, Bob. As a matter of fact, Mr. Donaldson has written nine books
in the Chronicles of Thomas Covenant  series. Regards, Kim aka Ellinder.

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Wow Kim, I didn't remember that Donaldson used the dream ending, but I read
the series quite a long time ago and by the time I got to the last book my
only goal was to get through the last book--and I think that was Mr.
Donaldson's goal as well.
 
Thanks for reminding me.
 
Bob
- "Right now I'm having amnesia and deja vu at the same
time."


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From: Kim  <mailto:kimfri11@xxxxxxxxxxx> Friedman 
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Hi, Roger, I don't know if you've ever read The Chronicles of Thomas
Covenant, by Stephen Donaldson, but he  used the dream device in his first
trilogy. I wouldn't call him an awful writer, but I can say he had a large
vocabulary and didn't mind using it. Regards, Kim aka Ellinder.

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Speaking of language changes, there also have been changes in writing styles
and literary devices. I don't recall any commentary on this but I have
noticed a literary device that was frequently employed in the late
nineteenth and early twentyeth centuries that no writer would get away with
today. That is that when a novel contained elements of the fantastic the
author explained everything by just having the protagonist wake up at the
end of the novel and realize that the entire story had been a dream. That
was used in Looking Backward by Edward Bellamy and The Man Who was Tuesday
by G. K. Chesterton. There were some others too, the titles of which slip my
mind right now. I suppose, at one time, that was considered good writing.
Nowadays it would cause groans and eye rolling.

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with indignation at every injustice then you are a comrade of mine." Che
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Hi, Shelley, Kim here. Can you imagine what fun good writers have when they
deliberately set out to write badly? I'm interested in seeing books about
language quirks and changes. What do you think of dictionaries of slang? I
remember having a lot of fun reading I Hear America Talking by Stewart Bird
Flexner because he listed all manner of expressions indicating the lack of
sobriety of a person? Some priceless expressions I can recall are: being
foxed, pie-eyed, being three sheets to the wind, on the sauce, etc. I
personally wouldn't care to be pickled, stewed or dipsomaniacal, but I like
drinking songs. At least I don't suffer from hangovers, maybe just a case of
laryngitis should my voice become hoarse. Regards, Kim aka Ellinder. 

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Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Wish list: Bower-Litten contest books

Hi here is the list of the contest winners, from all the years.  Bookshare
doesn't have any of these, neither alas does my library system, but perhaps
someone out there has them and can add them smile to Bookshare.

It Was a Dark and Stormy Night     Son of "It Was a Dark and Stormy Night"

Bride of Dark and Stormy    It Was a Dark & Stormy Night: The Final Conflict

Dark and Stormy Rides Again

Shelley L. Rhodes, M.A., VRT
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The people who burned witches at the stake never for one moment thought of
their act as violence;  rather they thought of it as an act of divinely
mandated righteousness.
The same can be said of most of the violence we humans have ever committed.
-Gil Bailie, author and lecturer (b. 1944)

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