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Comment on At the Two Week Mark by musingmar

musingmar — Thu, 16 Feb 2012 02:18:40 +0000

Joe, I’m happy to hear of your continued improvement. I know it’s hard when you can’t scratch that blogging itch, but I’m sure your loyal readers want you to put your health and well-being first! Good health to you.

Comment on The last three days by Joe Beernink

Joe Beernink — Fri, 10 Feb 2012 02:19:38 +0000

Thanks, Mai-Ling. I appreciate the support. Already getting better.

Comment on Recovering at Home by Joe Beernink

Joe Beernink — Fri, 10 Feb 2012 02:18:34 +0000

Yes, but I’m not running my own business on top of a day job. I also keep my posts (generally) shorter, and leave out pesky things like cogent arguments backed by facts.

Comment on Recovering at Home by Jason Black

Jason Black — Thu, 09 Feb 2012 03:23:04 +0000

What’s really pathetic (for me, anyway), is that I have no such issues and yet you’re still managing to blog way more often than I am.

Glad to hear you’re doing better.

Comment on The last three days by Mai-Ling Gibson

Mai-Ling Gibson — Sat, 04 Feb 2012 03:14:38 +0000

Hey Joe….I just found out about your diagnosis. Hang in there and work hard. Listen to your therapists and keep celebrating any small gains. I worked for 4 yrs. on an SCI Rehab unit as the social worker. You’ll get to where you want to be, especially with a sister likes yours! Don’t hesitate to have Cindy contact me! All my best to you and your family and I can’t wait to hear how well your recovery goes!

Comment on How to Depress a Writer by musingmar

musingmar — Thu, 02 Feb 2012 00:07:23 +0000

Thank you for another thought-provoking post, Joe. Your comment about another writer’s work seeming so effortless caught my attention. Is there a chance that writing was as laboriously produced as yours and mine? I think that, sometimes, because we are so aware of the effort that goes into our own writing, it can be hard to imagine that to others it, too, may seem effortless. Just saying… The fact that you have an agent, not to mention how much writing you’ve done, tells me a lot about the quality of your writing. I quite admire everything you’ve accomplished, and learn a lot from reading your blog. Maybe I’ll catch up to you one day, even though I’ve had quite the head start

Comment on Novels by Joe Beernink

Joe Beernink — Wed, 01 Feb 2012 01:29:14 +0000

Me too. If it hits bookstores like that, I’ll try to find the photographer, and give them a free copy. Autographed even.

Comment on Novels by Tom Yates

Tom Yates — Wed, 01 Feb 2012 00:27:58 +0000

I Like The “Cover” of Nowhere Home!

Comment on Unusually quiet by musingmar

musingmar — Fri, 27 Jan 2012 16:35:49 +0000

Hope you feel better soon!

Comment on Book Review: Starman Jones by Robert Heinlein by Jason Black

Jason Black — Tue, 24 Jan 2012 18:42:08 +0000

Heinlein is… Hm. Hard to characterize. A mixed bag, I guess.

On the one hand, no one can argue his place in the SF canon, nor his tremendous influence on the genre as a whole.

On the other hand, it’s also hard to escape certain rather unflattering conclusions about the man himself, upon reading a substantial swath of his works. There is a strongly misogynistic undercurrent to his corpus, one that goes beyond what I think can simply be attributed to the times he lived in.

Still, I will admit to enjoying some of his later works, such as _Job, a Comedy of Justice_.

In the balance, I’m left with the conclusion that there are really only two Heinlein novels anybody really needs to read: _Stranger in a Strange Land_, and _The Moon is a Harsh Mistress_. The one, for its cornerstone role in the overall SF canon, and the other because it’s a cracking good yarn. The rest of his stuff(*), well, IMHO it gets repetitive pretty fast.

(*)I got bored with Heinlein before making it to his Lazarus Long novels, but some folks seem to really dig those, so maybe I missed out.