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No, typically bisexual. " <{POST_SNAPBACK}> ... Or try-sexual?

It's primary fault is it is a bit too long, iirc. It tends to repeat itself a little too much (as a sympathetic writing device, too), so I thought it could have ended fifty pages or so earlier without loss. Meh. Always good to read stuff for yourself and make your own mind up. I tend to have deep unconscious thought-streams whilst reading, too.

Exactly. Great book (I'm not a rabid King fan, although I liked all the Bachman books) turned into the most saccharinely-warped cheese I have witnessed in a long while (and I am a rabid Arnie fan). I couldn't guess you were a big King / Barker fan. I enjoy King's endorsements (maybe more than his other writing): "Scared the s**t out of me!" is one of my personal favourites (referring to Hellraiser, iirc).

It'll certainly provide an in-depth understanding to Catch-22, as well as the completely surreal imbercility of the characters, methods and events in war. Don't run out and buy it and stop eating until you finish or anything drastic, but it is certainly worth a look if you have a long trip to fill. It's not as eye-openingly relevant as the nineteenth century historical fiction The Way We Live Now, but it certainly is worth a read.

... And word.

I want to KILL the Force, not serve it milk and cookies!

It gives writers the freedom to treat their characters as they see fit, rather than tie everything up in a pretty pink bow. Look at Stephen King's The Running Man (written under the pseudonym of Bachman); the protagonist has a completely different way to end the novel compared to Ah-nold's mincing about like he's on Jerry Springer without the metal detectors ...

Eloquent as always, Calax. Whiskey Tango Foxtrot?

It's so much like a B-grade Hollywood script that it is still difficult to beleive it actually happened! Hello, Money. Welcome to our communist utopia. Try not to make a mess. ... <{POST_SNAPBACK}> You're a bit Rip Van Winkle, aren't you? Communism died out after it lost the Cold War, symbolised by the tearing down of the Berlin Wall, 9 November, 1989. Nothing left but burnt out agrarian dystopias and a few Stalinist states ... "

I think the biggest advantage to horror fiction is that there is no compulsion for the author to write a Hollywood ending, which I feel is not a bad thing at all. (Hollywood always adds their own happy ending, anyway, when the book is transmogrified into a screenplay; Great Expectations, anyone? )

I must confess I skimmed over the first few reviews, as they were too long for my attention span on this topic. I take it the game is some sort of adventure game hybridized with a strategy game, played in first person? A bit like the old Infocom detective adventure series (Witness, et al) with hit points? Hmm. I give them points for trying ... not sure how much fun it would be ...

Who was SoU outsourced to?

Yes, but being a Force Sensitive doesn't equate automatically to being a Jedi (or Sith). I still think the Echani (or Miralukas, or some others) should form the anti-Force forces and kill the Force, to allow complete freedom for the galaxy and prevent the Force from controlling everyone's destiny ...

Not even backgammon? :D <{POST_SNAPBACK}> I like backgammon. That is where I can see why I am the "chosen one".

It's taken from a Joseph Heller novel, which I recommend to you, if you have a spare day to read it.

Unless I'm trying to do a Stephen King when he wrote the Bachman books ... "

Furries? There are multiples of my cat?

All the same it sounds pretty tedious.

Not if you ain't getting any. "

I know you mean that in the nicest possible way.

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Well, you all may believe what you like, but I don't see the point in creating an alternate identity to plug my fiction. After all, it's not like anyone on these fora would know me from a bar of dermatologically improved and ph-balanced soap, so what exactly would be the point? In case the fiction was terrible? Well, we all know that that wouldn't be an issue with my writing ... "