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[stonebender]

From kightp and serenejournal:

I know very little about some of the people on my friends' list. Some people I know relatively well. Some of you I hardly know at all. Perhaps you lurk, for whatever reason. But you friended me and I thank you.

But here's a thought: why not take this opportunity to tell me a little something about yourself. Any old thing at all. Just so the next time I see your name I can say: "Ah, there's so and so...she likes spinach."

I'd love it if every single person who friended me would do this. Yes, even you people who I know really well. Then post this in your own journal, if you feel like it.

Comments

[lcohen]

the book that got me back into reading sf after about a five year hiatus was marion zimmer bradley's the shattered chain. it opened my eyes because it looked at women's roles in society with what seemed like a fresh view for that time (the very early 80s).

only at the end of it i was incredibly frustrated because the two characters who should have wound up in a relationship didn't wind up together and one of them wound up in a relationship that was a Bad Idea. to bradley's credit, she recognized that and wrote that book in thendara house.

[stonebender.livejournal.com]

Have read all the Darkover stuff, then? I've read most of them.

[supergee.livejournal.com]

I read all the Darkover books through Two to Conquer and liked most of them.

[lcohen]

i have read all of them including the short story collections, the ones that were ghost written and the ones that they actually told you were ghost written.

the writing is uneven--when it is on, it is darned good telling of tales, when it is off, it repeats and hammers away. still, it is a fascinating world that she built--and i return to it again and again. she really nailed that "outsider who finds home in unexpected place" story--she told it again and again, but i still enjoyed it.

[rmjwell.livejournal.com]

My favorite is still The Forbidden Tower as it was my introduction to polyamory.