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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsTo my secret admirers (you know who you are)
Thank you. It is amazing that something so simple as candy hearts on DU can brighten my day.
Thanks.
PJMcK
(22,048 posts)While we might not always agree, I respect you and your writing.
Have a great weekend!
FSogol
(45,524 posts)Blue_Adept
(6,400 posts)Especially with low-post members like myself, even after being here forever. I figure I'm generally just not recognizable.
FSogol
(45,524 posts)Does your user name come from the Piers Anthony novel?
Blue_Adept
(6,400 posts)And it stuck here and just here since I use my real name elsewhere. I grew up reading the Piers Anthony works (and I know they must look horribly awful today in a lot of ways since they were recognizably terrible in those same ways then) but there's a nostalgia to it since they were some of my first "grown up" books I read as a tween.
FSogol
(45,524 posts)A lot of his work is pretty cringe-worthy (his characters can sleep with minors because their society allows it? )
PS. I always felt his Xanth books inspired Terry Pratchett's Ringworld Books.
Blue_Adept
(6,400 posts)It was the Incarnation of Immortality series that I was really drawn to with some creative stuff in there.
THat said, reading a lot of it as a teen back in the 80's, well, it was right up my alley in a way that most other books weren't since they didn't touch on sexuality at all.
FSogol
(45,524 posts)* That's about when I gave up sci-fi and fantasy for Joseph Conrad and Somerset Maugham.
I've only recently gone back to catch up on all the Roger Zelazny and Jack Vance stuff I missed out on.
Blue_Adept
(6,400 posts)A lot of fantasy and SF from some periods hold up better than others. I really enjoyed the first five of them with war, earth, chronos and the like. When he got to god, the devil, and eternity, it got a little more ethereal and out there. They're basically what are YA novels these days but they are light and breezy reads overall, which is nice to change things up with.
I had a hard time with a lot of fantasy after reading hobbit/lord of the rings and growing up playing D&D and reading tons of books from that realm, such as Dragonlance and so forth. I had a lot of fun with them all but there was little that felt really challenging or trying to do something new. it all just felt too familiar and repetitive.
GreenEyedLefty
(2,073 posts)I enjoy reading much more than posting.
Blue_Adept
(6,400 posts)I didn't actually come back for the longest time. Just life in general, though I kept reading and not getting involved.
FSogol
(45,524 posts)This is the best politics forum on the web and a great community when we aren't fighting each other.