From: "Lawrence Jenab" Subject: (glencook-fans) Mocker's accent Date: 23 Jul 2003 16:45:25 -0500 This is a multi-part message in MIME format. ------=_NextPart_000_001C_01C35139.D08BBB70 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Hey, was that a tumbleweed I saw? Slow times on the old GC list. = Anyway, I've been reading the Dread Empire books. I'd been saving them = for a rainy day (having read the BC books twice, the Garrett books once, = and most of his one-offs), and finally got around to them this week. = They're a bit rougher than I expected, especially at first, though by = "All Darkness Met" Glen seems to have hit his stride. Like a lot of people before me, I'm enjoying Mocker quite a bit. As I = read, I like to "hear" the characters speak, and I was wondering how you = all hear him. I started hearing him with an Indian (i.e., Indian = subcontinent, not Native American) accent, and ever since I can't shake = it. When you read the books, what does he sound like in your head? Cheers, LJ ------=_NextPart_000_001C_01C35139.D08BBB70 Content-Type: text/html; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable

Hey, was that a tumbleweed I = saw? =20 Slow times on the old GC list. Anyway, I've been reading the Dread = Empire=20 books. I'd been saving them for a rainy day (having read the BC = books=20 twice, the Garrett books once, and most of his one-offs), and = finally got=20 around to them this week. They're a bit rougher than I expected,=20 especially at first, though by "All Darkness Met" Glen seems to have hit = his=20 stride.

Like a lot of people before me, = I'm=20 enjoying Mocker quite a bit. As I read, I like to "hear" the = characters=20 speak, and I was wondering how you all hear him. I started = hearing=20 him with an Indian (i.e., Indian subcontinent, not Native American) = accent, and=20 ever since I can't shake it. When you read the = books, what does=20 he sound like in your head?

Cheers,

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He is a great character--for me by far the most memorable of the series (three books in, that is--I might change my mind later on). LJ ----- Original Message ----- Sent: Wednesday, July 23, 2003 6:03 PM > LJ, > > I always thought Mocker had a Russian accent, much like Manny in > Heinlein's "Moon is Harsh Mistress". > > Steve > > ======================================================================= > To unsubscribe, subscribe, or access the archives of this list, > visit . > ======================================================================= To unsubscribe, subscribe, or access the archives of this list, visit . ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: David Ainsworth Subject: (glencook-fans) SFBC edition Date: 28 Jul 2003 16:01:07 -0500 The latest SFBC offering includes a reprint of The Garrett Files (which includes the first three Garrett stories), and Garrett, P.I., which covers Old Tin Sorrows, Dread Brass Shadows, and Red Iron Nights. If only someone would tell the cover artists that Garrett doesn't LIKE hats, it'd be perfect. Perhaps of more esoteric interest is this Author's Note from Glen Cook himself: Garrett has seen it happen. Exaggerate a little here, overlook something there. There is no Absolute Truth or Absolute Reality, anyway. That Truth is whatever the majority on hand want it to be. Real Truth is egalitarian and democratic and not at all compelled to correspond to the world in any useful way. Truth has no respect for Right, What's Best, or Needs Must. Real Truth is a dangerous beast in need of caging in even the quietest of times. Ask any prince or priest. Real Truth was the First Traitor. ----Glen Cook David ======================================================================= To unsubscribe, subscribe, or access the archives of this list, visit . ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: "MDScholl. CMGagnon" Subject: Re: (glencook-fans) SFBC edition Date: 28 Jul 2003 17:58:17 -0400 David Ainsworth wrote: > The latest SFBC offering includes a reprint of The Garrett Files (which > includes the first three Garrett stories), and Garrett, P.I., which > covers Old Tin Sorrows, Dread Brass Shadows, and Red Iron Nights. > > If only someone would tell the cover artists that Garrett doesn't LIKE > hats, it'd be perfect. > > Perhaps of more esoteric interest is this Author's Note from Glen Cook > himself: > > Garrett has seen it happen. Exaggerate a little here, overlook > something there. There is no Absolute Truth or Absolute Reality, > anyway. That Truth is whatever the majority on hand want it to be. > Real Truth is egalitarian and democratic and not at all compelled to > correspond to the world in any useful way. Truth has no respect for > Right, What's Best, or Needs Must. Real Truth is a dangerous beast in > need of caging in even the quietest of times. > Ask any prince or priest. > Real Truth was the First Traitor. > ----Glen Cook > > David Hmm, foreshadowing the next Garrett book? A commentary on current events? [not meant to be a signal to begin off topic political debate] Or perhaps he's been hitting Weider's Best and suffering post-modern angst? Thanks for sharing David, Michael ======================================================================= To unsubscribe, subscribe, or access the archives of this list, visit . ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Michael Llaneza Subject: Re: (glencook-fans) SFBC edition Date: 28 Jul 2003 19:17:54 -0700 So long as nobody on the cover is carrying a *gun* I expect I'll be happy with the cover. David Ainsworth wrote: > The latest SFBC offering includes a reprint of The Garrett Files > (which includes the first three Garrett stories), and Garrett, P.I., > which covers Old Tin Sorrows, Dread Brass Shadows, and Red Iron Nights. > > If only someone would tell the cover artists that Garrett doesn't LIKE > hats, it'd be perfect. > > -- We choose to go to the moon. We choose to go to the moon in this decade and do the other things, not because they are easy, but because they are hard, because that goal will serve to organize and measure the best of our energies and skills, because that challenge is one that we are willing to accept, one we are unwilling to postpone, and one which we intend to win, and the others, too. http://www.cs.umb.edu/jfklibrary/j091262.htm ======================================================================= To unsubscribe, subscribe, or access the archives of this list, visit . ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Charles Subject: Re: (glencook-fans) SFBC edition Date: 29 Jul 2003 04:33:14 -0700 (PDT) "Garrett has seen it happen. Exaggerate a little here, overlook something there. There is no Absolute Truth or Absolute Reality, anyway. That Truth is whatever the majority on hand want it to be. "Real Truth is egalitarian and democratic and not at all compelled to correspond to the world in any useful way. Truth has no respect for Right, What's Best, or Needs Must. Real Truth is a dangerous beast in need of caging in even the quietest of times. "Ask any prince or priest. "Real Truth was the First Traitor." ----Glen Cook Hmmmmmmm... yes, that's a *very* interesting quote. Thanks David. I'd like to get my hands on that second Garrett book sometime, too, just to have OTS in HC. And I'm going to have to go back and read Mocker's dialogue with Indian and Russian accents, and see if I can figure out what accent *I've* been hearing it in...can't say as I recall one, I seem to hear different tones of voice rather than accents (Mocker's voice is a little on the high side). I like Haroun better as a character, not sure what that tells you. __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! 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Truth has no respect for Right, What's Best, or > Needs Must. Real Truth is a dangerous beast in need > of caging in even the quietest of times. > > "Ask any prince or priest. > > "Real Truth was the First Traitor." > ----Glen Cook > > Hmmmmmmm... yes, that's a *very* interesting quote. > Thanks David. > > I'd like to get my hands on that second Garrett book > sometime, too, just to have OTS in HC. > > And I'm going to have to go back and read Mocker's > dialogue with Indian and Russian accents, and see if I > can figure out what accent *I've* been hearing it > in...can't say as I recall one, I seem to hear > different tones of voice rather than accents (Mocker's > voice is a little on the high side). I like Haroun > better as a character, not sure what that tells you. > > __________________________________ > Do you Yahoo!? > Yahoo! SiteBuilder - Free, easy-to-use web site design software > http://sitebuilder.yahoo.com > > ======================================================================= > To unsubscribe, subscribe, or access the archives of this list, > visit . > ======================================================================= To unsubscribe, subscribe, or access the archives of this list, visit . ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: BHardy1968@aol.com Subject: Re: (glencook-fans) SFBC edition Date: 30 Jul 2003 13:15:34 EDT In a message dated 7/28/03 2:09:46 PM, dbainswo@students.wisc.edu writes: << The latest SFBC offering includes a reprint of The Garrett Files (which includes the first three Garrett stories), and Garrett, P.I., which covers Old Tin Sorrows, Dread Brass Shadows, and Red Iron Nights. If only someone would tell the cover artists that Garrett doesn't LIKE hats, it'd be perfect. >> This may seem like a question I should have figured out a year ago when I signed up for this list but what's SFBC and what's the details on these reprints? Brian ======================================================================= To unsubscribe, subscribe, or access the archives of this list, visit . ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: "Henry C. Davis" Subject: RE: (glencook-fans) SFBC edition Date: 30 Jul 2003 13:36:18 -0400 Science Fiction Book Club www.sfbc.com they print hardcover exclusives and anthologies from time to time. -----Original Message----- [mailto:owner-glencook-fans@lists.xmission.com]On Behalf Of BHardy1968@aol.com Sent: 30 July, 2003 1:16 PM In a message dated 7/28/03 2:09:46 PM, dbainswo@students.wisc.edu writes: << The latest SFBC offering includes a reprint of The Garrett Files (which includes the first three Garrett stories), and Garrett, P.I., which covers Old Tin Sorrows, Dread Brass Shadows, and Red Iron Nights. If only someone would tell the cover artists that Garrett doesn't LIKE hats, it'd be perfect. >> This may seem like a question I should have figured out a year ago when I signed up for this list but what's SFBC and what's the details on these reprints? 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