Kevin's Watch

Ananda wrote:Welcome, dmc-4359. I hope you enjoy the SRD books when you read them! What does your name mean, by the way? I'm very curious!

I'm sorry I missed this post Ananda. The name is simply a reference to one of my cars which is a 1981 DeLorean DMC12. It is an old irish car that is most likely recognized from the movie Back to the Future. The vin numbers to these cars are for the most part numerically sequential with regards to their last four or five digits. When I first bought my DeLorean I was running with a car club primarily composed of MR2 Spyder owners and lacking any real creativity, I chose my name based on my vin though most people just call me dmc. Even in person.

To which I sincerely preferred over the "Flip" nickname I had earned after rolling my MR2 Spyder up at Deal's Gap some years prior.


Oh and Welcome to the forum InnoBy! I'm a newb here myself, but its a pretty hip place so far as I can tell.

CHAOSBAD wrote:Hello, I am new to this forum but an avid TCTC reader for years. I am glad I have found this site!!!!!

Welcome to the Watch. Take a look around and try out the different forums.

--A

Welcome, Chaosbad -
Watch out for the loonies. So many of them look "normal."

CHAOSBAD wrote:Hello, I am new to this forum but an avid TCTC reader for years. I am glad I have found this site!!!!!

Welcome, glad to have you

innoBy & CHAOSBAD hi.

Well...
I am feeling a sense of deja-vu at the moment, but.

Be Welcome to the Watch, Chaosbad.
Be Well Come and True.

Have you met Nephirthos yet?

I first read the first three books when they came out back in 1977, read them cover to cover a thousand times, a million, hung on every word...donaldson is a wonderfull writer, and the land is a wonderful world
mark
oh...i know that prothal is mispelled.

Welcome Lord Prothal, Happy Veterans/Remembrance Day.

You've been on board since the beginning, eh? And read them boatloads of times? You should check some of the Disections, and also check the "By Trilogy" Forums. There are some posters with A phenomenal recall, Like Wayfriend, Peter, Worm...,

In the Disections Ananda has been a very recent addition and an amazing one at that. Danlo, Fist, Jenn all brilliant additions to the collection.

hi LordPothal

Be Welcome to the Watch L-rdPothal.
Be Well Come and True.

Wecome LordPothal. We wil enoy havng you at the Wath.

LordPothal wrote:I first read the first three books when they came out back in 1977, read them cover to cover a thousand times, a million, hung on every word...donaldson is a wonderfull writer, and the land is a wonderful world
mark
oh...i know that prothal is mispelled.

Welcome to the Watch. Is the spelling deliberate?

If not, you can change it (I think) and if you can't let me know and I'll do it.

--A

Hi -
Anne's death this week reminded me of this story, which I thought it might be worth sharing here with you guys? First, to establish my Covenant-related credentials and reassure people that this post is relevant......I first came across The Chronicles in about 1982. The dear departed Science Fiction Bookshop in West Crosscauseway, Edinburgh, Scotland was well-stocked with a diverse range of material, and a group of us from a nearby school regularly availed ourselves of the quality produce that was there. I can't remember which of us picked up Covenant first - but it went through our group in what today we would call a 'viral' fashion. So we were all up to speed before the 1983 release event that was White Gold Wielder.

It was the first time that I can recall a book release being awaited like a new album from a legendary band - the sort of thing that became quite standard for (for example) Harry Potter in more recent years. As I'm sure I don't need to say to you all, the immersive and intense nature of the writing and the world blew me away - and actually having books that inspired such intense debate was quite a change.

Go forward about a year - that same Science Fiction Bookshop has a signing tour (although you could barely squeeze twenty people in there at a time). Anne McCaffrey has just released the trade edition of Moreta. A redoubtable lady, who viewed everyone approaching the altar of the signing table with a wary eye - until they had demonstrated their (mostly) harmless nature. At one point, she started to relate a signing story from earlier in the tour - she was in a store, and one guy had come up to the desk, not understanding what was going on. It was explained to him - so he went away and got a book, then came back up through the queue to the desk.
"I'd like you to sign this, please."
"I can't sign that!"
"Why not?"
"Because its by Steve Donaldson."
Apparently, he had selected a copy of the Illearth War for Anne to sign.
At this point - in what I soon realised was a gross display of ill manners - I asked (given her evident familiarity with 'Steve') "so, do you know when he is doing the next Thomas Covenant books??" (everybody was talking back then about it becoming 'The Chronicles of Linden Avery' with the next volume)

To be fair and give her full credit, Anne was pretty graceful about someone asking about the writings of another author at HER signing!! (not really much better than the individual she had just described in the anecdote, perhaps?) "Well, he's taking a break from that right now - you realise, writing that stuff, its so intense, it takes a LOT out of you...."

And that was 1984 (I believe....) - how right she was about that break. I've been following the releases of the Last Chronicles ever since I stumbled across a copy of 'Runes of the Earth' in a bookstore, to my elated astonishment, shortly after it was released - and I can't wait for a repeat of that same adrenalin high for The Last Dark as with WGW in 1983. As a recent book review put it, 'noone writes climaxes like Donaldson'......

Thanks for listening.....

Be Welcome to the Watch, BDF.
Be Well Come and True.

How I envy that you got to meet and converse, however briefly, with Anne. I had a flurry of emails with her after the publication of Crystal Line, but that's as much interaction as we ever had.

Welcome BDF, great story, thanks for sharing.

Welcome to the Watch, BDF. Big Donaldson Fan? Or Ballroom Dancing Fool? Just curious.

After checking the Phoogle and confirming that BDF is a Scot by residence, I am going to speculate that the acronym is a geo-hint that stands for Britain's Down Further.

Welcome to the Watch BDF. Poke around and join in. We've got a weedgie wandering around somewhere too.

Have fun. Participate. (That's an order.)

--A

Hello everyone. Just arrived in this strange and wonderful world.

I'm English, but live around Europe. Really glad that I've at long last realised that I'm inside historic literary times - too long have I looked at history as events long past and been stuck in the reading of past literary masters. Here we all are, living in history as it's made, taking our part in it and - most importantly - reading the work of a current literary great. We connect in a way not possible with those times and people long gone.

Mr Donaldson has been a boon and comfort over the last 40 years of my life and I look forward to that continuing. I am also excited about to getting to know people here and sharing counsel.

Be Welcome to the Watch, Nunez.
Be Well Come and True.

How long do you tend to stay in any one place?