Comments on: Yay Me

By: Dan Caveny

Dan Caveny — Thu, 20 Nov 2008 14:15:51 +0000

Hmm, 25 years…Well it has been 10 and a half years since a friend of mine in AIT (training after Basic for the Army) told me I needed to read Jhereg. I hated the idea of books before then and I am happy to say that you have opened a new world to me and I thank you very much. We are all waiting for more.

Dan

By: morriganson

morriganson — Wed, 19 Nov 2008 20:33:10 +0000

i ran across you by way of the one post emma bull had made in my LJ.

just wanted to say “thank you” back.

gods. has it been 25 years? sheeeit.

By: Bacail

Bacail — Tue, 18 Nov 2008 10:10:18 +0000

Picked up Jhereg on a friend’s reccomendation in early High School and havn’t looked back since.

Every book gets read cover to cover within the first couple of hours after I get my grubby hands on it, then cursing your name for the next year or two waiting for another.

Thanks again and keep em coming!

By: Budro

Budro — Thu, 13 Nov 2008 17:49:35 +0000

Thank you.

When I was a teenager reading about Vlad’s adventures I loved the stories. Two decades later I still love the stories, but I find new layers of meaning and wisdom in them when I read them now.

It’s a good author who can tell a story that’s fun. It’s a great storyteller who can write books that carry more then the story.

I don’t know what the story would be about, but I’d love to read some more stories from Parffi!

Thanks again!

By: Blue Ox

Blue Ox — Wed, 05 Nov 2008 16:39:11 +0000

I was 14, my older brother Billy O’Hanlon gave me this cool looking book and said “Read this, you’ll like it, the main character is an assassin.” I was hooked, I was enthralled, I read all the way through with no breaks. From that day on my fanboy list was irrevocably altered. The best guitarist ever was Jimi Hendrix, the best sci fi author ever was Roger Zelazny, and when I can’t have either of them, give me some Steven Brust!

By: skzb

skzb — Mon, 03 Nov 2008 21:05:44 +0000

Cynthia: Oh, right! Email me your current address.

I remember those days too–I’m not as much of a pompous prick about writing as I was then–gotten more of a handle on what I don’t know. You did a good job of putting up with me. :-)

By: cynthia

cynthia — Mon, 03 Nov 2008 17:59:34 +0000

This indeed cannot pass by unnoticed. I remember most sitting in an apartment on Staten Island while Patrick and Theresa talked you out of using Zoltan in your name (too pretentious; people will think it’s fake). Watching you wander around with Corwin, deep in some new world you were making up on the spot. Finding the paperback in the Miami Airport book store during a stopover on our flight to (from?) Colombia when we picked up our daughter and restraining myself from showing everyone in the airport.

Proud of you, kid. Was then, still am.

But hey– you promised me an autographed copy of Jhegaala!
Cynthia

By: Bawrence

Bawrence — Mon, 03 Nov 2008 17:34:06 +0000

Ya, pessimism is the best. Everything that happens is either what you expected all along or you’re pleasantly surprised.

By: skzb

skzb — Mon, 03 Nov 2008 17:18:02 +0000

I’ve found that it’s bad luck to be superstitious. :-)

By: Lewis Himelhoch

Lewis Himelhoch — Mon, 03 Nov 2008 17:12:11 +0000

Thanking the fans when you owe all your success to a smart aleck, poisonous, reptilian scavenger is going to leave you with a dead
teckla in your bed you know.

You know, though, it’s really safer to let anniversaries like this pass quietly lest evil spirits take notice and do something to dampen our joy in them.