Finally! Thank you, Covenant_Fan and others, for the intelligent posts. I was beginning to think that all I was going to get was reactionary responses. If we can't discuss any topic intelligently, then what's to point? I can't have an intelligent conversation with someone who begins a response with ...

I have heard that We was the inspiration for Rand's short novel Anthem, which itself was the inspiration for Rush's 2112.

How did this goofball Jordan ever get published? I can't believe I wasted 7 hours of my life reading through his first book! I want my time back! (I wonder if I can sue. . .)

At least McCaffery can write--unlike Jordan and others of his ilk. I have no issue with McCaffery; I just point out that she writes CHILDREN'S stories. "When I was a child I spoke as a child I understood as a child I thought as a child; but when I became a man I put away childish things." ...

So what do we do with the things that we buy with WGD? I don't get it.

Then he spied the Autarch

The First was better. The story was tighter.

I read covenant at 13. Seems to be a common age. It blew me away. I re-read about 6 years after that, and again 6 or so years after that. Time for a re-read.

Natural_Lawyer wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Severian wrote:Excellent YA ("young adult," or teenager) introduction to fantasy/science fiction. But very different from Covenant, which I put squarely in the adult/literature category.

Severian, you are such a fricking GEEK.

Nom.

I agree. Nom.

I know you are, but what am I?