Kevin's Watch

My book is finally--finally--a paperback (not the dimensions of a folder, which many of you KW'ers found out personally). =P

Flat Earth

CONGRATULATIONS LF



FAERIE TALE, by Raymond E Feist

Krazy Kat wrote:CONGRATULATIONS LF



FAERIE TALE, by Raymond E Feist

If that's the book I think it is, a lot of the places in it are real ones right next to me...

Vraith wrote:

Krazy Kat wrote:CONGRATULATIONS LF



FAERIE TALE, by Raymond E Feist

If that's the book I think it is, a lot of the places in it are real ones right next to me...

I dug out some of the names mentioned in the story.
My world atlas has Buffalo (of course), Fredonia and Catteraugus, but the other places are too small. The Hastings family (main characters) live near Pittsville, William Pitt County. Pearlington and White Horse are also mentioned.

Though I'd be really surprised if the Fairy Woods, Erl King Hill "Hill of the Elf King", and the Troll Bridge were real places <tentative grin>.

Krazy Kat wrote:

Vraith wrote:

Krazy Kat wrote:CONGRATULATIONS LF



FAERIE TALE, by Raymond E Feist

If that's the book I think it is, a lot of the places in it are real ones right next to me...

I dug out some of the names mentioned in the story.
My world atlas has Buffalo (of course), Fredonia and Catteraugus, but the other places are too small. The Hastings family (main characters) live near Pittsville, William Pitt County. Pearlington and White Horse are also mentioned.

Though I'd be really surprised if the Fairy Woods, Erl King Hill "Hill of the Elf King", and the Troll Bridge were real places <tentative grin>.

Definitely the book...I don't want to ruin anything accidentally, so that's all I'll say for now.

Vraith wrote:

Krazy Kat wrote:

Vraith wrote: If that's the book I think it is, a lot of the places in it are real ones right next to me...

I dug out some of the names mentioned in the story.
My world atlas has Buffalo (of course), Fredonia and Catteraugus, but the other places are too small. The Hastings family (main characters) live near Pittsville, William Pitt County. Pearlington and White Horse are also mentioned.

Though I'd be really surprised if the Fairy Woods, Erl King Hill "Hill of the Elf King", and the Troll Bridge were real places <tentative grin>.

Definitely the book...I don't want to ruin anything accidentally, so that's all I'll say for now.

Finished reading the book last night. I haven't read a horror story for a long time so I really enjoyed this one.

After spending an hour or so on a Google-map searching the perimeters of Cattaragaus Indian Reservation , I'm assuming that Pittsville is a Raymond E Fiest invention?

Krazy Kat wrote: Finished reading the book last night. I haven't read a horror story for a long time so I really enjoyed this one.

After spending an hour or so on a Google-map searching the perimeters of Cattaragaus Indian Reservation , I'm assuming that Pittsville is a Raymond E Fiest invention?

He takes liberties [which he should, it's fiction not history. But unless I'm confused Lilydale was in there, and it's as real and odd as described...in fact, in "tourist season" you have to pay a fee at the town gate to get in. [I think the psychic institute was mentioned in that book? It's real.] Of course SUNY Fredonia is real, but one prof....former prof now, was supposedly real, too. [but not the dept.]...I'll have to dig it up and read again...when I read it, I hadn't lived here yet.

The Warrior Prophet by Bakker.

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The Thousandfold Thought.

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Swords Against Death by Fritz Lieber.

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Dune. It's been over 25 years since the last (only) time I read it. I had forgotten how good it is! After I finish, I'll probably re-watch that crappy movie of it and ruin the whole experience.....though I'm hoping it will make the movie seem better.

Skyfall by Catherine Asaro

A Touch Of Strange - Theodore Sturgeon (9 short stories)

So tempted to read The Eye of Eternity book III of the Shadowleague, by Maggie Furey.
Will try and wait till I find the first two in the series.

KK does that collection include the story Widget, Boff and I.

I use to have a TS anthology which contained the above story (if the title is correct) and story about someone with a split personality disorder. Part of the set up is the doctors ex-wife (who had run off with the above person) asks him for help.

Hue, a quick bit of google-fu tells me that the story "The (Widget), the (Wadget), and Boff", was published in the collection Aliens 4.

hue of bone wrote:KK does that collection include the story Widget, Boff and I.

No, it doesn't have that one.
If it's of any interest to you, the stories are:

Mr Costello, Hero
The Touch of Your Hand
Affair with a Green Monkey
A Crime for Llewellyn
It Opens the Sky
A Touch of Strange
The Other Celia
The Pod in the Barrier
The Girl Had Guts

___ wrote:After I finish, I'll probably re-watch that crappy movie of it and ruin the whole experience...

Don't watch the Lynch movie! (Maybe that'll bring MM outta the woodwork.)

Once you've finished it, visit the Hangar and we can talk about it there.

I've just started Swords Against Wizardry, last of my newly acquired Fritz Lieber books.

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Yes we have a huge forum on Dune over at the Hangar.

Now beginning's Bakker's Warrior Prophet. (Avatar reads way too fast for me to keep up... )

Pratchett's The Last Continent. Had forgotten how cool the God of Evolution was.

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The Colour of Magic. Think I'll read all the Wizards books quickly.

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