A quick update and sad news...
May. 23rd, 2008 11:59 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
per_soloTo me, at least.
I'll be pretty busy this weekend, but Filkertom posted last night that Robert Asprin had passed away.
YEARS ago...well, it's obvious I got into Sci-Fi thanks to Star Wars, Close Encounters, and MANY other movies.
How I got into fantasy is a little different. When I was a freshman in High School, my best friend loaned me "The Elftsones of Shanharra", a book I enjoyed, and was warned not to read the first one, as it was horrible to get through.
Well, after reading that, I started looking in the school library for other fantasy books...and one that was highlighted was "Another Fine Myth". So I grabbed it, not knowing what to expect.
It was hella fun. Bad Puns, cute story, neat system for how magic worked in that world...I started reading all of them I could. And was worried when the books went on hiatus (IRS Issues), but then they came back being written with another author as well.
I've only read one of the books that came out after the hiatus, but keep meaning to pick them up. They're not quite "popcorn" books, but they are easy reads, and fun.
Now I have a desire to get those again (My copies are missing), along with the Wild Cards books by George RR Martin.
But, I know that some check here that don't check Tom's LJ (Blasphemous, in my opinion in some cases. :-P), and felt I should pass the word.
I'll be pretty busy this weekend, but Filkertom posted last night that Robert Asprin had passed away.
YEARS ago...well, it's obvious I got into Sci-Fi thanks to Star Wars, Close Encounters, and MANY other movies.
How I got into fantasy is a little different. When I was a freshman in High School, my best friend loaned me "The Elftsones of Shanharra", a book I enjoyed, and was warned not to read the first one, as it was horrible to get through.
Well, after reading that, I started looking in the school library for other fantasy books...and one that was highlighted was "Another Fine Myth". So I grabbed it, not knowing what to expect.
It was hella fun. Bad Puns, cute story, neat system for how magic worked in that world...I started reading all of them I could. And was worried when the books went on hiatus (IRS Issues), but then they came back being written with another author as well.
I've only read one of the books that came out after the hiatus, but keep meaning to pick them up. They're not quite "popcorn" books, but they are easy reads, and fun.
Now I have a desire to get those again (My copies are missing), along with the Wild Cards books by George RR Martin.
But, I know that some check here that don't check Tom's LJ (Blasphemous, in my opinion in some cases. :-P), and felt I should pass the word.
