Re: What are you reading?
In reply to horus (msg # 36):
Yeah, Anne is a gem. :)
I do enjoy spoken words much better. You're about cadence, I think it's also the sharing too. I am not this bad about movies, but if both my company and I have seen a movie before, I will comment and inquire thoughts. Books Anne has read work well for this, because she reads like a biblio-addict, reading just about anything she can get her hands on. So after she's read something (that's the key) she is willing to cherry pick things she thinks I'd like, and read them to me. Then I interject every now and then, which would be annoying if she hadn't read it before (that and speed) but really helps me enjoy it. :)
Anne is a clerk at the county library, and our county library is ranked well in the (American) nation, certainly not top ten, but well regarded. She wants a job (I forget the position's name) where she recommends books to people who liked one genre/author/period/etc and they want to know something else. It would also be mandatory to pay her to read an hour every day. Which is like a dream job for her; talking about books, and being paid to read. So reading to me, and listening to my input is actually a little bit of training for her too. She read the Harry Potter Books, up until Order of the Phoenix (where she just couldn't stomach it) and we admitted one of the few times the movies were better than the book, in our opinion.
Anyway, another Sci-fi book Anne liked is Sassinak (sp?). I never read it or heard it, but it's by the same author as the Ship Who Sang, and Pern series.
There are many many others, that if Anne deemed to log onto RPoL she would love to recommend. Sadly, I'm a fantasy audience. Most Sci-fi isn't my thing. BEcause of McCaffrey's fantasy voice though, and the gray nature in between soft and hard sci-fi, it worked for me.
As I've said to others though. I enjoy doing, rather than hearing or watching. Like with sports, I would rather play, even poorly, than watch something. Hence most media is very out of touch for me. Music is one of the few medias I consume regularly, mostly because it's easy to do something; like play video games, or an RPG, while I listen. Reading character text, or watching a game video also works. Hence I'm on RPoL. ;)
I won't continue on that tangent though, and risk derailing the thread.