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1. about 7 hours ago on Breaking Cat News

   Indeed, welcome back! Where were you?

2. about 7 hours ago on Breaking Cat News

   Heavy, furry rumbles of Happy Healing!

3. about 7 hours ago on Breaking Cat News

   What is Second Life?

4. about 7 hours ago on Breaking Cat News

   I thought that was Book 5 where we learn the true meaning of shite? But you’re the filker.

5. about 16 hours ago on Breaking Cat News

   Got the last two working. Interesting. There certainly have been times when finding the cat was a real challenge.

6. about 16 hours ago on Breaking Cat News

   Yes, the Gormenghast trilogy—so ghastly I never finished book one, Titanic Groan …

   Have you ever heard Tom Smith’s parody of the Thomas Covenant series? It has generated quite a few memes and buttons in the SF world, back in the day.

   John Norman’s Gor series generated an entire role-playing … cult?… that apparently is still going strong. There was even a group basing their personas on an offshoot in the SCA—too weird even for me, and I generally like weird. Now where did I leave the alcohol wipes …

7. about 16 hours ago on Breaking Cat News

   Same sentiment, differently expressed: Don’t trouble me, I won’t trouble you.

8. about 17 hours ago on Breaking Cat News

   Partially this is a matter of individual taste and proclivities. However, I consider that these books were written for a fully adult audience. An awful lot of people seem to get turned off to these books because they are made to read them before they are experienced enough to appreciate their merits (if any, but that’s a matter of taste.)

9. 1 day ago on Breaking Cat News

   Nice to know a “classical” education didn’t ruin Georgia. Those classics should never be taught until at least senior year in high school, and maybe that’s too early.

10. 1 day ago on Breaking Cat News

    I also recommend Miss Fisher, and another series The Doctor Blake Murders, I believe it’s called.