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Feb. 6th, 2012 06:44 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
green_dreams(1) How had I not noticed Bob Leman before? I'd read "The Window", and it made enough of an impression that as soon as I saw the title mentioned on this page I thought I knew which one it was. And I was right, and it was still good, and the quote from "Loob" is still stuck in my head, that weird slip and sorrow and the disconnect of hope found in the truth of things turning back to the bitter way they were before.
(2) And if anyone can point me towards a source for his Goster County stories that isn't the absolutely-lovely-looking-but-extremely-limited-edition Feesters in the Lake & Other Stories, which is currently going for about $250, I'd really appreciate that. Really. It's too early in the year to do something fiscally stupid.
(3) What is with Wikipedia? No-one who doesn't care about putting up story summaries puts them up, so why are they so off? I can see leaving out the details of the crumbling demise in "The Colour Out of Space". I can. But you look at the review of "The Window" and it's wrong. It's like ending a summary of "Pickman's Model" with Pickman coming back into the room after shooting a few rats, except the truncated bit leaves out even more. I get being rushed, but leaving out the last two pages of a barely-22-page story? The best two pages? Not even bothering to note that there's more, but that summarizing it would be a spoiler? Gah.
(4) Yes, I'm going to update their summary, as soon as I'm done grumbling and have slept.
(2) And if anyone can point me towards a source for his Goster County stories that isn't the absolutely-lovely-looking-but-extremely-limited-edition Feesters in the Lake & Other Stories, which is currently going for about $250, I'd really appreciate that. Really. It's too early in the year to do something fiscally stupid.
(3) What is with Wikipedia? No-one who doesn't care about putting up story summaries puts them up, so why are they so off? I can see leaving out the details of the crumbling demise in "The Colour Out of Space". I can. But you look at the review of "The Window" and it's wrong. It's like ending a summary of "Pickman's Model" with Pickman coming back into the room after shooting a few rats, except the truncated bit leaves out even more. I get being rushed, but leaving out the last two pages of a barely-22-page story? The best two pages? Not even bothering to note that there's more, but that summarizing it would be a spoiler? Gah.
(4) Yes, I'm going to update their summary, as soon as I'm done grumbling and have slept.
