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von Darkmoor
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  		   Posted 4/17/2008 5:15 PM (GMT -4)    Quote This PostAlert An Admin About This Post.
Do you recall our little discussion on my blog (possibly in 2006) about what I would rate a 10/10 book? I'm not sure if you've seen this review of mine, but here's the closest I've read in the last 3 years: http://www.sfreader.com/read_review.asp?book=1166

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Lyn
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  		   Posted 4/17/2008 6:06 PM (GMT -4)    Quote This PostAlert An Admin About This Post.
Good review - and enthusiastically stated. Hmm, I think I now know what you mean if you say "10" - lol.

I think a 10 for me would definitely have to be 'perfect' - and I'm not sure I have any books in mind at this point. My 8s & 9s are reserved for solid, professional efforts that are engaging and enjoyable in their own right and also come with a high recommendation factor (Enders Game is a quick example). My 6s & 7s are enjoyable and/or intelligent reads, but probably won't be recommended broadly (most of Ender's sequels). My 4s & 5s are 'eh' - not a waste of time, but probably quickly forgotten (can't remember any examples here, lol). If I finish reading my 2s & 3s, it's because it was volunteer effort for a friend or just felt I had to keep going in the face of disaster. And I doubt I'll finish a 1 (0 to 1/2 star).

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  		   Posted 4/21/2008 1:42 AM (GMT -4)    Quote This PostAlert An Admin About This Post.
In order to score a "ten" with me, I have to actually get to the end, flip it back to the first page, saying in effect "That was fun, lets do it again!" I can not think of a fantasy novel I have done that with in at least a decade. If I'm only tempted but don't actually reread the book, its only a nine.
I will say that the lest seven or so Honor Harrington solo novels by David Weber consistently elicited this reponse. That has to be partially a cumulative effect of the series.

Mike

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"Psyched Up" in _Turn the other Chick_-ed. E. Friesner-Baen books
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"Dutchman Rescue"in Continuum SF #6
www.continuumsciencefiction.com/orders.htm

"An Incident at Black Tongue Tavern" in _Bash Down the Door and Slice Open the Badguy_ from Fantasist Enterprises:

www.fantasistent.com/books/anthologies/BASH.php
"Pink Plastic Flamingos" in Big Pulp
www.bigpulp.com/m.html
"Stains" in Tales of the Talisman 3-1 www.zianet.com/hadrosaur/index.html
"Morning Coffee" in Every Day Fiction
www.everydayfiction.com/morning-coffee-by-michael-d-turner/
"The Jewel Below" in Flashing Swords
flashingswords.sfreader.com/issues/issue8/vol2-iss8-05.htm
"Happy Landings" in Every Day Fiction
www.everydayfiction.com/happy-landings-by-michael-d-turner/
"Teller of Tales" in Every day Fiction
www.everydayfiction.com/teller-of-tales-by-michael-d-turner/
Read "Silver Shells" In Every Day Fiction
www.everydayfiction.com/silver-shells-by-michael-d-turner/

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von Darkmoor
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  		   Posted 4/21/2008 2:23 AM (GMT -4)    Quote This PostAlert An Admin About This Post.
I like that definition of a ten, Mike. I can totally appreciate that.

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Jason M. Waltz
Managing Editor, Flashing Swords Press (site soon to come)
First Book Released: The Return of the Sword
Assistant Managing Editor, Flashing Swords Magazine
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Ever waltz with the Devil? Or devil with a Waltz?
House von Darkmoor - where the real action is
von Darkmoor's thoughts - where it all began

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Nicholas
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  		   Posted 4/22/2008 2:23 PM (GMT -4)    Quote This PostAlert An Admin About This Post.
I do recall that discussion, and am intrigued to click over and see which book it was.
 
 

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Nicholas
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  		   Posted 4/22/2008 2:26 PM (GMT -4)    Quote This PostAlert An Admin About This Post.
I'm back. Steven Erikson, eh? The name rings a bell--I may have seen posters for the book at the Tor party I got pleasantly intoxicated at during last year's World Fantasy Con.
 
 

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  		   Posted 4/22/2008 6:19 PM (GMT -4)    Quote This PostAlert An Admin About This Post.
Tor has great parties.

Click here to buy my book!
The Servant of the Manthycore from DEP
Illustrated by Rachel Marks, with an introduction by Michael Moorcock
Read me in 2008!
"Without Napier" Every Day Fiction, April 9
"Night of Shadows, Night of Knives" Magic and Mechanica, Ricasso Press, Spring 2008
"To Destroy All Flesh" Return of the Sword, Flashing Swords Press, Spring 2008
"Only His Name" Every Day Fiction, March 30
"An Exorcism Straight, Hold the Elvis" They Are Not What They Seem, Janrae Frank, ed., TBA
"The First Trial of Jermaish the King" Flashing Swords #10, May 2008
Still in print!
"The Stars by Law Forbidden" Unparalleled Journeys II, Journey Books, 2007
"Six Zombies Doing That Mick Jagger Strut" Damned in Dixie, Tenoka Press, 2007
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von Darkmoor
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  		   Posted 4/22/2008 11:32 PM (GMT -4)    Quote This PostAlert An Admin About This Post.
Even I know I sound like an annoying, broken record player, but I cannot extoll the praises of Steven Erikson enough. I simply thoroughly enjoy reading everything the man writes. And if I cannot get y'all to read The Malazan Book of the Fallen (which I realize at ten, 800+ page books is not everyone's cup o' tea) everyone really should read the 100-page novella trilogy he's written betwixt the big books. Set in the same world and even with overlapping characters, these books have brought me to tearfilled laughing bouts several times - and I do not read comic fantasy. These aren't spoofs, not slapstick, not laugh-track comedic - these are situational, observational humor, droll humor, that anyone can appreciate as anyone could experience events to generate such thoughts or hear such words themselves. Well, perhaps not the fantastical, speculative parts of the tales, but you get my point!

Anyhoo, thanks for pressing me on that subject back then, Nicholas, and for humoring me now. And thanks, Michael, for your incisivie inclusion of fact in this thread!

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Jason M. Waltz
Managing Editor, Flashing Swords Press (site soon to come)
First Book Released: The Return of the Sword
Assistant Managing Editor, Flashing Swords Magazine
~~~~~~~~~~
Ever waltz with the Devil? Or devil with a Waltz?
House von Darkmoor - where the real action is
von Darkmoor's thoughts - where it all began

~~~~~~~~~~
Eye of the Dragon Avatar courtesy of crystalwizard

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Lyn
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  		   Posted 4/23/2008 10:48 PM (GMT -4)    Quote This PostAlert An Admin About This Post.
You didn't thank me.

Lyn from ResAliens
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