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enjoy

they are pretty dense, iirc, you wont blitz through them too quickly

tuah dé danann (darraghmac), Saturday, 5 October 2024 23:12 (one month ago) link

What other Garner should I read? All of it?

Yes, there's only nine novels (ten if you include The Stone Book Quartet which is four interlinked stories) and none of them are long. Plus what I've read of the short fiction is equally good. Haven't read anything from the 'Other Books' section from the link below, I'm guessing they're mostly for younger readers? Plus Where Shall We Run To? is a memoir.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alan_Garner#Works

RIO Speedwagon (Matt #2), Sunday, 6 October 2024 02:13 (one month ago) link

Thanks! Am I ready for Red Shift---?

Emma Donoghue recalls reading Red Shift as a teenager: "It looked like other Garners I had read: a children's fantasy. But Red Shift, with its passionately bickering adolescent lovers and vertiginous plunges through the wormhole of time, shook me to my core every time I read it, and still does... Garner makes the past numinous, terrifyingly real: anything but passed."[42]
Think I need to check Emma Donoghue as well, going by that and links in there---right?

dow, Sunday, 6 October 2024 04:20 (one month ago) link

Finished Red Shift six months ago and still have it on my desk because I'm convinced I'm going to solve the cipher.

default damager (lukas), Sunday, 6 October 2024 04:57 (one month ago) link

i pulled the trigger on the first three mole books. etsy was the only place i could find a good deal for the first three books! someone should really reissue them.

― scott seward, Saturday, 5 October 2024 23:03 (three days ago) bookmarkflaglink

enjoy

they are pretty dense, iirc, you wont blitz through them too quickly

― tuah dé danann (darraghmac), Saturday, 5 October 2024 23:12 (three days ago) bookmarkflaglink

can scott do a mole book reax thread where he shares his trauma and everyone who read them earlier relives their own trauma

Tim F, Tuesday, 8 October 2024 02:15 (four weeks ago) link

Stroke it Mole

Ward Fowler, Tuesday, 8 October 2024 02:24 (four weeks ago) link

you guys are scaring me!

scott seward, Tuesday, 8 October 2024 02:46 (four weeks ago) link

looking forward though.

scott seward, Tuesday, 8 October 2024 02:47 (four weeks ago) link

W-what are the---mole books---?

dow, Tuesday, 8 October 2024 20:06 (four weeks ago) link

one who must ask has not yet achieved stoneness

tuah dé danann (darraghmac), Tuesday, 8 October 2024 20:09 (four weeks ago) link

(duncton books, William horwood)

tuah dé danann (darraghmac), Tuesday, 8 October 2024 20:10 (four weeks ago) link

kirstein (the steerswoman) (trilogy, I think?)

― Ima Gardener (in orbit), Wednesday, September 18, 2024 5:57 PM (three weeks ago)

It's planned as 7 books and she has written 4. There hasn't been a new book in two decades and her next book is not in that series.

Robert Adam Gilmour, Thursday, 10 October 2024 20:23 (three weeks ago) link

i dont want to come across as harsh but that should be prison time tbh

tuah dé danann (darraghmac), Friday, 11 October 2024 22:35 (three weeks ago) link

I was discussing the other day that this sort of thing isn't uncommon at all. There's tons of writers who've had an ending for their series in their heads for decades but demanding day jobs, right issues, depression, illness, other book series and many other things get in the way. If anyone should be punished it should be editors who keep asking for trilogies, quartets or more and don't allow the writer to complete them if the early books sell poorly.

Robert Adam Gilmour, Saturday, 12 October 2024 02:14 (three weeks ago) link

otm

mookieproof, Saturday, 12 October 2024 02:39 (three weeks ago) link

i said what i said

tuah dé danann (darraghmac), Saturday, 12 October 2024 09:09 (three weeks ago) link

That's a lot of dead people in jail.

I think it comes with the territory, if series epics are what you like to write then there's a very high probability that you won't finish them all, or even one of them.

It seems like there's quite a lot of writers who do series that consist of standalones and their fans don't know how many further books were intended. I just found out that Gormenghast was planned as at least 5 books.

Robert Adam Gilmour, Saturday, 12 October 2024 16:35 (three weeks ago) link


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