Kevin's Watch

I hope TCTC will win over your 2 friends there, Guns.

Personally, though, my attitude is to just let people find the Chrons on their own. I discovered Donaldson purely on my own, and that made the Chrons even more rewarding and meaningful for me.

I also don't like to use the word "converted" because it has a negative connotation in my mind, like I'm brainwashing people.

Yes, I'm weird.

Nevertheless, good luck with your friends!

i'm with Matrixman in that i don't really look at it as converting people. if i know someone that i know enjoys reading, i will introduce them SRD's works, and tell them how much i enjoy his books, but i have found that pushing people to read something is counter-productive.

Matrixman wrote:I hope TCTC will win over your 2 friends there, Guns.

Personally, though, my attitude is to just let people find the Chrons on their own. I discovered Donaldson purely on my own, and that made the Chrons even more rewarding and meaningful for me.

I also don't like to use the word "converted" because it has a negative connotation in my mind, like I'm brainwashing people.

Yes, I'm weird.

Nevertheless, good luck with your friends!

I guess "coverting" is not really the right word, and I was suing it inappropriately. The deal is that I love the books and the author's style SOOOOO much that I feel anyone who reads sci/fi fantansy, or who enjoys ficition ought to have the opportunitry presented to them by someone in the the know.

No biggie!

Converted? No.

Enlightened? Yes!

Ramen wrote:Dukkha: maybe your wife refuses to read these books ´cause you try to convince her.

Well, I must say that after agood few years of trying to convince the GF to read them (and hitting a blank wall), she did eventually read them all. (Long after I had stopped trying.) She didn't hate them, but she didn't love them either. *shrug*

--A

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Ramen wrote:Dukkha: maybe your wife refuses to read these books ´cause you try to convince her.

Well, I must say that after agood few years of trying to convince the GF to read them (and hitting a blank wall), she did eventually read them all. (Long after I had stopped trying.) She didn't hate them, but she didn't love them either. *shrug*

--A

and yet you still stay with this woman?!?!?

my husband never reads any books..

i accept this

makes me having my own "worlds"

I ripped through the first and secons chrons again so I could give it to my friend to read and discuss. He resisted for quite awhile but once he got into it he really liked it. He and I are of the same opinion that the second chrons are better than the first.

Ramen wrote:makes me having my own "worlds"

I do that quite often myself, the police, on the other hand, don't seem very amused by that...

I struck up a conversation with an English teacher on a train once. I was reading Iain Banks. I mentioned Donaldson and all she would say was, "I don't like him!"

When I asked her why she just repeated the same thing, so I thought it best not to press it!

These days I don't bother trying to 'convert' people, though I have in the past. Nowadays I'm more likely to just leave a copy of LFB sort of lying around if I go round to a friend's place and just leave it there. I have a theory that people who take pride in their reading actually don't like to be enthused at about books they haven't sussed yet. They'd rather sort of discover it themselves (LIKE I DID!!! ) I've bought several 2nd hand copies of LFB in recent years to compensate for this!

A Gunslinger wrote:

Matrixman wrote:I hope TCTC will win over your 2 friends there, Guns.

Personally, though, my attitude is to just let people find the Chrons on their own. I discovered Donaldson purely on my own, and that made the Chrons even more rewarding and meaningful for me.

I also don't like to use the word "converted" because it has a negative connotation in my mind, like I'm brainwashing people.

Yes, I'm weird.

Nevertheless, good luck with your friends!

I guess "coverting" is not really the right word, and I was suing it inappropriately. The deal is that I love the books and the author's style SOOOOO much that I feel anyone who reads sci/fi fantansy, or who enjoys ficition ought to have the opportunitry presented to them by someone in the the know.

Agree!

Sometimes I speak so much of these (and other really good) books to friends of mine, that now two other friends have started with TC. I´m really looking forward for their statement, but as they liked most of the books I "introduced" them, I feel positive.

And sure I will link this site to them

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Ramen wrote:Dukkha: maybe your wife refuses to read these books ´cause you try to convince her.

Well, I must say that after agood few years of trying to convince the GF to read them (and hitting a blank wall), she did eventually read them all. (Long after I had stopped trying.) She didn't hate them, but she didn't love them either. *shrug*

--A

I find that really odd. I can't imagine anyone having a lukewarm reaction to Donaldson. Hate, perhaps, but not "meh". Baffling.

I've tried to introduce my girlfriend to SRD, since she enjoys fantasy and science fiction, and the more intelligent the better. I did manage to get her to read Daughter of Regals, which she enjoyed, but she still has no interest in Covenant or the Gap.

I think you have to wired a certian way to truly appreciate SRD. Jaded but full of wonder? Maybe not (cool epitath tho..)...*shrugh*

CovenantJr wrote:

Avatar wrote:Well, I must say that after agood few years of trying to convince the GF to read them (and hitting a blank wall), she did eventually read them all. (Long after I had stopped trying.) She didn't hate them, but she didn't love them either. *shrug*

I find that really odd. I can't imagine anyone having a lukewarm reaction to Donaldson. Hate, perhaps, but not "meh". Baffling.

Yeah, dunno myself...just one of those things I guess. She's waiting 'til all the last Chrons are out (she says) before trying those. She's a fussy reader...not really into sci-fi or fantasy so much as non-fiction.

--A

The GAP I beleive, while SRD's masterpiece, is also the hardest for a casual reader to just pick up and start reading. One should be warned that it is tough stuff prior to picking it up!

The frustrating thing for me is my gf likes a lot of the same books/authors as me, and she liked SRD's short stories - so why the hell won't she read the Chrons? She just won't accept my word for them being good. Can't get her onto Hyperion either; I think she'd really enjoy that, being a big fan of epic science fiction.

CovenantJr wrote:The frustrating thing for me is my gf likes a lot of the same books/authors as me, and she liked SRD's short stories - so why the hell won't she read the Chrons? She just won't accept my word for them being good. Can't get her onto Hyperion either; I think she'd really enjoy that, being a big fan of epic science fiction.

She's a woman, Roger. Who TF knows why they do anything that they do? Here's what you do...when she asks you waht you want for your B-Day or X-mas or some such, tell her you want her to read the Chrons!

A Gunslinger wrote:
She's a woman, Roger. Who TF knows why they do anything that they do?

Sometimes they don´t know either

A Gunslinger wrote:Here's what you do...when she asks you waht you want for your B-Day or X-mas or some such, tell her you want her to read the Chrons!

Maýbe that works, bit maybe she reads only with her eyes, ´cause you sished it, and not with her heart

Ramen wrote:

A Gunslinger wrote:
She's a woman, Roger. Who TF knows why they do anything that they do?

Sometimes they don´t know either

A Gunslinger wrote:Here's what you do...when she asks you waht you want for your B-Day or X-mas or some such, tell her you want her to read the Chrons!

Maýbe that works, bit maybe she reads only with her eyes, ´cause you sished it, and not with her heart

But she would be seduced by the greatness in spite of herself!