{"id":2991,"date":"2002-08-24T17:45:54","date_gmt":"2002-08-24T22:45:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/?p=2991"},"modified":"2002-08-24T17:45:54","modified_gmt":"2002-08-24T22:45:54","slug":"books","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2002\/08\/24\/books.html","title":{"rendered":"Books"},"content":{"rendered":"

It’s the Friday Group Therapy<\/a>.<\/p>\n

<\/p>\n

1. What was the first book that you remember reading?<\/b> It was a book about Popeye that Mom would read me. She would follow along, pointing at the words as she read. One day I took the book to her and did the same thing. It’s been reading-reading-reading ever since.<\/p>\n

2. Tell us about the best book that you ever read.<\/b> No can do. I have hundreds of books. Many of them are most excellent. Many of them have resonated with me in a variety of ways at the time I read them.<\/p>\n

3. Tell us about the worst book that you ever read.<\/b> Doomstar<\/a><\/i>, by Richard S. Meyer. This book convinced me that, if I put my mind to it, I could become a published author, because it was so godawfully written, and so poorly edited, then even on a bad day I could do better than it. It was the first book I ever owned that I threw away.<\/p>\n

4. What genre of books do you find yourself most drawn to?<\/b> SF\/Fantasy, of course. Mystery\/noir, too, at least in measured doses (Parker, Rucka, Stout, Gardner). I also enjoy True Crime tales.<\/p>\n

5. What genre of books do you avoid?<\/b> Romance novels, whether bodice-rippers or “legit” best-sellers. Most hard-tech thrillers (of the Clancy sort). Westerns. <\/p>\n

6. Do you have a favorite author? What draws you to this person’s work?<\/b> A <\/i>favorite author? Yeesh. If pressed (i.e., “whose body of work would you most want to have with you on a desert island” sort of thing), probably Robert Heinlein. Imaginative, witty, bawdy, dramatic, heroic stuff.<\/p>\n

7. Have you ever written anything? If so, tell us about your writing. If not, have you ever wanted to?<\/b> Yes. I did the NaNoWriMo last year, and I have a novel that’s been waiting the Last, Great Edit on it for about a decade. Both works were rather juvenile genre fiction, not worth publishing, but fun to write and share with my friends.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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