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Pastimes : Metaphysics and Spiritual Practices
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To: Carol who wrote (441)1/31/1998 7:53:00 PM
From: Yorikke  Read Replies (1) of 650
 
carol

I remember reading 'Something Wicked this way comes'. Think I read it in a day (on and off). It was in the pacific and the warm humid evening was like a midwest summer night. The dark town, with its occasional light and stray dog, the scratchy radio songs drifting from the market, the untouchable difference of place, gave the story a life and I drifted into it for the rest of the evening...enchanted.

Went back and re-read it a few years later and it was good but had lost that strange mystery that made it so consumable.

I got to be honest I stop reading an author if he gets popular. It used to be a real hassel trying to talk to people who were sf readers and had about 3 books under their belt. Solid SF understanding is the art of a derilict.

I had years in the pacific with nothing to do but read trash....it ruined me forever. After I sobered up I actually went back to school and garnered one a them big degrees...nobody could understand why.....I guess it was all that bradbury/hienlien/vance/vonnegut/and a host of others who had my mind so screwed...I actually believed I could do it.....then for 6 years I hardly ever picked up a book I didn't have to read 3 times just to understand where the chapters began and ended......

SF is my link with a mispent youth that I will always yearn for. Its a place like many in the stories I have read; strange, fantastic, fun and lost to the yellowed pages of old paperbacks that now crack and crumble in my hands if I pick them up for another read.

regards,

mnmuench
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