I wish I paid that much attention to the folks around me Nah, it's rude to stare. What got me started is I was at an open mike poetry night at the one and only coffee shop near my college, and this guy got up and read:
People Watching people watching people-watching people
It kind of gave me a license to stare. ;-)
just to see how the author ends it Yuppers, that's how I am now. There's something to be said for the loose ends being tied up.
I have a protocol for what I do with a book when I'm done with it. The very best most excellent "I know I'm gonna want to quote from this thing" books go on my tiny bookshelf. If it's good and says "so-and-so needs this book" I send it to so-and-so. The next tier get donated to Goodwill or sold to the used book store (if it's good, someone else should get a crack at it). If it's so bad it hurts, I throw it away, so nobody else has to suffer. Once in a while a book is so bad I throw it away before finishing it.
The only time I can think of when I threw away a sequel book was when I made the mistake of reading the three B's Second Foundation Trilogy. The Asimov estate had given David Brin, Gregory Benford and Greg Bear permission to write what they conceived would have been the next three books in the series. I read the fisrt one, but threw away the second and never bought the third.
Meanwhile Dark Tower VI comes out in paperback in 3 weeks...
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Nah, it's rude to stare. What got me started is I was at an open mike poetry night at the one and only coffee shop near my college, and this guy got up and read:
People
Watching people
watching people-watching people
It kind of gave me a license to stare. ;-)
just to see how the author ends it
Yuppers, that's how I am now. There's something to be said for the loose ends being tied up.
I have a protocol for what I do with a book when I'm done with it. The very best most excellent "I know I'm gonna want to quote from this thing" books go on my tiny bookshelf. If it's good and says "so-and-so needs this book" I send it to so-and-so. The next tier get donated to Goodwill or sold to the used book store (if it's good, someone else should get a crack at it). If it's so bad it hurts, I throw it away, so nobody else has to suffer. Once in a while a book is so bad I throw it away before finishing it.
The only time I can think of when I threw away a sequel book was when I made the mistake of reading the three B's Second Foundation Trilogy. The Asimov estate had given David Brin, Gregory Benford and Greg Bear permission to write what they conceived would have been the next three books in the series. I read the fisrt one, but threw away the second and never bought the third.
Meanwhile Dark Tower VI comes out in paperback in 3 weeks...