Announcement - Possible Sporking Delay!
Mar. 23rd, 2013 01:23 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
a_sporking_ratEDIT: The fabulous and kind zombiexbunny has sent me Bullet, Hit List, and Kiss the Dead on my Kindle, so sporking will resume as soon as I get a new one drawn up! Please thank them!
Hey folks, I've reached my renewal limit on Bullet, so today I'm going to have to return it. I'll go back the next day to see if it's still there, but someone else might have requested it, and if that's the case then sporkings will be on hold until they return it or until I can get a copy from another branch by my own request.
In the meantime, how about a little discussion? Since I think it's safe to assume most of us are urban fantasy fans, let's go with that. What do you want to see more of in UF? Less of? More of but only if it's done right, or not at all? What do you have mixed feelings on? What author did you start with? What author turned you on to the genre? Has any author turned you off? What successes and failures have inspired you? What are the cliches and conventions you hate and love least? Are you an aspiring writer yourself, and if so, do you feel comfortable talking about your work here with us? Pretty much ANYTHING as long as it's related to UF, or at least reading/writing in general. Or rats too, talking about rats is ALWAYS encouraged!
To start with, I'd like to know if is the rest of the Artemis Fowl series after the first book worth reading? I loved the first book as a kid, but I remember not being as charmed by the second and thus quitting on it or the third. But now I'm reading the second and liking it quite well enough. Would you recommend continuing the rest of the books after I finish it?
Hey folks, I've reached my renewal limit on Bullet, so today I'm going to have to return it. I'll go back the next day to see if it's still there, but someone else might have requested it, and if that's the case then sporkings will be on hold until they return it or until I can get a copy from another branch by my own request.
In the meantime, how about a little discussion? Since I think it's safe to assume most of us are urban fantasy fans, let's go with that. What do you want to see more of in UF? Less of? More of but only if it's done right, or not at all? What do you have mixed feelings on? What author did you start with? What author turned you on to the genre? Has any author turned you off? What successes and failures have inspired you? What are the cliches and conventions you hate and love least? Are you an aspiring writer yourself, and if so, do you feel comfortable talking about your work here with us? Pretty much ANYTHING as long as it's related to UF, or at least reading/writing in general. Or rats too, talking about rats is ALWAYS encouraged!
To start with, I'd like to know if is the rest of the Artemis Fowl series after the first book worth reading? I loved the first book as a kid, but I remember not being as charmed by the second and thus quitting on it or the third. But now I'm reading the second and liking it quite well enough. Would you recommend continuing the rest of the books after I finish it?
