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Local Authors => Robison E. Wells => Topic started by: The Holy Saint, Grand High Poobah, Master of Monkeys, Ehlers on April 21, 2005, 10:47:48 AM

Title: Second Thought
Post by: The Holy Saint, Grand High Poobah, Master of Monkeys, Ehlers on April 21, 2005, 10:47:48 AM
Be happy. Your book made it into the living room book shelf. Y'know, the one that's in the room where we intend to entertain guests and so show the books we actually want people to know we read and enjoy.
Title: Re: Second Thought
Post by: fuzzyoctopus on April 21, 2005, 11:09:14 PM
My copy still has not come out of hiding.
Title: Re: Second Thought
Post by: Spriggan on April 21, 2005, 11:15:15 PM
my copy in on the floor next to my bookcase, one of these days I'll walk over to that side of my room and finish organizeing it.
Title: Re: Second Thought
Post by: House of Mustard on April 22, 2005, 11:09:56 AM
Well, the branch presidency came over to introduce themselves, and I couldn't even find my copy, so I forgive Fuzzy and Sprig.  I really need to start unpacking.
Title: Re: Second Thought
Post by: Gemm: Rock & Roll Star; Born to Rock on April 22, 2005, 11:23:06 AM
I believe my copy is positioned between HP Lovecraft and Neil Gaiman books.
Title: Re: Second Thought
Post by: Fellfrosch on April 22, 2005, 03:15:45 PM
That's some prestigious company.
Title: Re: Second Thought
Post by: Mistress of Darkness on April 22, 2005, 08:03:57 PM
My copy is also on the living room bookshelf between Peter S. Beagle (The Last Unicorn) and Stephen Crane (The Red Badge of Courage). I'm not quite sure how it ended up there.
Title: Re: Second Thought
Post by: Jelly_Belly on April 25, 2005, 12:27:37 PM
I looked everywhere for my copy--in the bookcase in the living room, in the bookcase in the bedroom, in the hall closet, around the TV, and then it hit me, I don't have a copy. I guess I'm not in HoM's special reader club :( . Oh, well. I guess I'll just have to buy it when it comes out :).
Title: Re: Second Thought
Post by: stacer on April 25, 2005, 12:48:57 PM
It's been out for two years. Just go to your local Seagull.
Title: Re: Second Thought
Post by: Jelly_Belly on April 25, 2005, 02:17:15 PM
Oh, I guess I thought they were talking about his other book coming out soon about the boys and they're adventures (something with a chicken in the title). That doesn't come out till later this year and they never mentioned which book it was at the beginning of this thread. I thought HoM had sent out advance copies for reviews to some people of TWG (or at least that's what I gathered from reading the threads). Guess I was wrong.
Title: Re: Second Thought
Post by: stacer on April 25, 2005, 03:59:55 PM
The chicken book is actually Firemeboy. Mustard is working on book 2 of a trilogy, the first of which came out last year. The title of that is Wake Me When It's Over.
Title: Re: Second Thought
Post by: fuzzyoctopus on April 29, 2005, 09:08:10 PM
I found it!

I found my copy of "On Second Thought" last night, (which has been hiding since November) and was so happy that I took it to work to read it again.  I knew today would be slow enough for a full book.  I"ve been meaning to ask you- did you make up all the crazy sunday school things or did some of them come from "that actually happened" stories? I was thinking particularly of things like "they should have shot the seagulls and eaten them AND the crickets" and the lesson about "how women shouldn't feel bad that we don't have the priesthood, because it's our sacred responsibility to do the canning."


And now that I've found the book it can go back on the shelf next to its brother, and on the other side of Beth Hilgartner's books.
Title: Re: Second Thought
Post by: Gemm: Rock & Roll Star; Born to Rock on April 30, 2005, 12:31:51 AM
Yeah... so will I be getting your 2nd book the same time your 3rd book comes out? =P Anytime Rob, any time.
Title: Re: Second Thought
Post by: Peter Ahlstrom on May 01, 2005, 10:19:18 PM
I just barely started reading it, and thought the "going back to school" thing was very strange. If you already have a bachelor's from somewhere, doesn't that usually mean you can't go for a bachelor's from somewhere else?
Title: Re: Second Thought
Post by: Skar on May 02, 2005, 12:29:46 AM
I can't imagine any university actively denying someone the right/opportunity to give them money.  They want a second bachelors?  let em pay for it.
Title: Re: Second Thought
Post by: fuzzyoctopus on May 02, 2005, 12:52:54 AM
I think you just can't get a second one from the same college.
Title: Re: Second Thought
Post by: stacer on May 02, 2005, 01:04:16 AM
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I just barely started reading it, and thought the "going back to school" thing was very strange. If you already have a bachelor's from somewhere, doesn't that usually mean you can't go for a bachelor's from somewhere else?


This is because you went to BYU, which won't admit people if they already have a bachelor's for another bachelor's. But that's just space issues, not that most universities won't let you get a second bachelor's.

Wait--did he go back to BYU for a second bachelor's? I just packed up my copy of the book, so I can't just go look.
Title: Re: Second Thought
Post by: fuzzyoctopus on May 02, 2005, 01:23:15 AM
He did - his first was U of U, second was at BYU.  Whoops.   ;)
Title: Re: Second Thought
Post by: The Holy Saint, Grand High Poobah, Master of Monkeys, Ehlers on May 02, 2005, 10:21:15 AM
yes, technical error, but none of us care all that much except as interesting trivia.

You can definitely get second bachelor's degrees though. My brother actually has two from the U.
Title: Re: Second Thought
Post by: Spriggan on May 02, 2005, 10:28:59 AM
I know for a fact that BYU will not accept you if you allready have a bachelors from somewhere else.
Title: Re: Second Thought
Post by: House of Mustard on May 02, 2005, 11:51:55 AM
Well, that's what I get for going to the U and writing about BYU.  At the U, they're desperate for whatever they can get -- I guess BYU is pickier.

And Gemm, I swear the book is in the mail.  My wife mailed it last week -- I'm actually surprised you haven't gotten it yet.  (And I mean it this time -- the book is actually in the mail.)
Title: Re: Second Thought
Post by: Gemm: Rock & Roll Star; Born to Rock on May 02, 2005, 03:27:33 PM
Heh, ok. As long as your pleasantly surprised that it is in the mail, then by all means I'll be patient.