Leo Laporte says Cheryl Tiegs is 57! Don’t worry, Cheryl. To every man of my generation, you’ll always beautifully fill out that white net Sports Illustrated swimsuit. Brains and beauty, a killer combination! May your reign be long and sweet.
It appears my earlier rant about the spelling in Forge of Heaven was premature. After a shaky 50 pages or so, it’s settled down, and I haven’t been jarred out of the story by language issues since. More on Cherryh in general and this book in particular later (probably tomorrow).
Pete Hamill notes that since the passing of Barry Goldwater, plain speaking has disappeared from the American political scene. I agree. I’m looking for someone to vote for who’s really willing to say what he means and mean what he says. I’m not so sure I wouldn’t vote for someone I had serious disagreements with, […]
Caught a rerun of an Odyssey 5 episode tonight. Why does the Good Stuff always get cancelled and the dreck go on forever?
This thought occured to me as I was reading Forge Of Heaven by C J Cherryh. I’m finding an annoying spelling error every dozen pages or so. And they all share a similar pattern: the substitution of one correctly-spelled, but wrong, word for the correct one. So far I’ve run into “what” (should have been […]
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