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Site News / Re: Introduce yourself - right on!
« on: March 02, 2009, 04:58:59 AM »
Greetings.
My name is Jonathan and I will turn 34 three days after making this post. I live in Lexington, SC, am married, and have two young boys. I have always been an avid reader, but have just in the last two years come to grips with the reality that I am a geek and prefer SciFi/Fantasy over other genres. I've never been into RPGs or such, I just like to read a good story.
I admit to discovering Brandon Sanderson after he was chosen to finish WoT. (Please don't hold that against me!) I have purchased and read Elantris and the Mistborn Trilogy. Mr. Sanderson's writing stands just fine on its own! At this point I'm anxious to read AMoL and put the WoT series behind me. I'm not one for delving deeper into a book and discussing theory and what hidden meanings any particular author might have had on a given subject. This is something that always bothered me in my Literature classes. I would always be the one to ask, "What if the author just wanted to tell a good story and really didn't mean anything else by what he wrote?" That viewpoint may be contrary to many of the discussions on this forum, but I'll deal with that as it comes.
My other interests include Ford Mustangs and General Aviation. I would like to be a pilot someday, but I am unable anytime soon. I also recently got my hands on a new Amazon Kindle 2 and encourage any authors out there to work with their publishers to get their work availabe in e-book formats. I travel quite a bit for my employer and carrying books can be cumbersome and expensive!
I hope I'll be a good fit for this forum.
Thanks,
Jonathan
My name is Jonathan and I will turn 34 three days after making this post. I live in Lexington, SC, am married, and have two young boys. I have always been an avid reader, but have just in the last two years come to grips with the reality that I am a geek and prefer SciFi/Fantasy over other genres. I've never been into RPGs or such, I just like to read a good story.
I admit to discovering Brandon Sanderson after he was chosen to finish WoT. (Please don't hold that against me!) I have purchased and read Elantris and the Mistborn Trilogy. Mr. Sanderson's writing stands just fine on its own! At this point I'm anxious to read AMoL and put the WoT series behind me. I'm not one for delving deeper into a book and discussing theory and what hidden meanings any particular author might have had on a given subject. This is something that always bothered me in my Literature classes. I would always be the one to ask, "What if the author just wanted to tell a good story and really didn't mean anything else by what he wrote?" That viewpoint may be contrary to many of the discussions on this forum, but I'll deal with that as it comes.
My other interests include Ford Mustangs and General Aviation. I would like to be a pilot someday, but I am unable anytime soon. I also recently got my hands on a new Amazon Kindle 2 and encourage any authors out there to work with their publishers to get their work availabe in e-book formats. I travel quite a bit for my employer and carrying books can be cumbersome and expensive!
I hope I'll be a good fit for this forum.
Thanks,
Jonathan