Recent content by prabe

I KNOW RIGHT?

Probably for the same reason some bands' songs all sound alike ...

Ouch. That sounds rough just in general, never mind the specific instance. For an early-fifties mostly-sedentary nerd, I'm OK--This is just a lot, and it probably won't be clear until it melts sometime next week (if the forecast is to be believed).

Here in the Maryland burbs, we got maybe six inches of snow, and something like two-to-four of sleet on top. At this point, it's all kinda compacted and mostly ice, which makes clearing anything you didn't get on right away ... tricky. Also, what looks like snow is kinda tricky to walk on and...

I agree. Chances are really good that other people are wrong. :LOL:

People say all kinds of stupid s[tuff].

Funny thing, those were really like the opposite of my experiences, being in bands when I was younger. Though the fact none of the bands I was in really got far out of the basement/garage is certainly a thing.

That's the one I bounced off of hard enough to stop reading Hendrix. Different people will have different tastes and preferences, and I'm genuinely glad you enjoyed it.

A) Grady Hendrix is a "he." B) Horrorstor is my personal favorite of Hendrix's books, something about the deadpan "catalog" listings, I think. (I've bounced real hard off Hendrix lately, that's not relevant to y'all enjoying his novels. Seriously, have at.)

Who ever said they'd get better?

At this point, "borrowed" isn't exactly the word, is it?

Unrelated to the above: I don't think those things work that way as often as you think they do.

If it's, say, a planned--and executed--trilogy, I'll generally treat that as one story. If it's like indefinite series fiction I'll either skip it or just grab whatever new-to-me books I find, and read them as I find them, mixed in with whatever other books I'm reading. If it's a planned trilogy...

I guess I was never a true Star Wars fan, then. I haven't seen anything since The Phantom Menace.

Again, not really trying to argue, here, just pointing at a different experience and POV: My wife is one of the people who got me in to Pratchett, and she absolutely adores the Witches, and she started me with Guards! Guards!.