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Brandon Sanderson / Re: maybe
« on: May 29, 2011, 05:46:00 PM »
@zas678

It is much easier to read between the lines when the OP has more than one line :-)

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Brandon Sanderson / Re: maybe
« on: May 14, 2011, 04:06:31 AM »
I understand that I am confused.

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Site News / Re: Introduce yourself - right on!
« on: May 13, 2011, 06:33:12 AM »
My name is John.  I have degrees from Harding University and UALR. My education includes a BS in Chemistry, M.Ed. in Secondary Biology Education, and MA in Chemistry. I currently teach high school chemistry.  I often work in the summers for one of my former professors doing things such as radio-tracking snakes for ecological studies.  I have been published in Toxicology Letters and Herpetological Review.  However, I do not consider myself a writer.  I may one day become one, but only if I get around to ending my membership in Procrastinate Now.  For now I am a nitpicker and have, at times, put that to constructive use as one of several proofreaders for GURPS books authored by one of my friends.

My preferred method of relaxation is reading. I prefer really well-written science fiction.  Sadly, such science fiction is rather hard to find. For me, even a well-written novel is easily ruined when the author describes a person with a hole in their chest a meter wide, an asteroid with a core temperature of -475 Celsius, or a space craft 250,000 km long that is hiding behind a moon. Such mistakes seriously irk me due to my aforementioned nitpicking tendencies. As a result I actually read far more fantasy than I do science fiction.

Some of my favorite authors are Robert Heinlein, Charles Sheffield, David Weber, L.E. Modesitt Jr., Larry Niven (especially when teamed with Jerry Pournelle), Orson Scott Card, Robert Jordan, Brandon Sanderson, Terry Goodkind, Piers Anthony, J.K. Rowling, Peter David, Robin Cook, Tom Clancy, and Michael Crichton. 

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Brandon Sanderson / Re: I Hate Dragons
« on: May 13, 2011, 05:06:30 AM »
What a delightfully fun story.  Of course, to date, everything I have read by Mr. Sanderson has been most enjoyable.  And, to my knowledge, out of his published material the only works I have not read are the books in the Alcatraz series.

There is a typo in chapter 4. The word "fined" in the quote below should be "fine."

“Really? Because I rewrote it several times, and used some very fined punctuation and interesting words. It’s quite marvelous, I must say.”

In addition to reading more of this story, I hope to one day get to read Skip's version of his contract.

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