Sunday, January 19, 2014

Some high-class musings...What I Think About When I Think About "Into The Out Of"...

Relax .It's water.
When I was about 17 I first read the book "Into The Out Of," an Alan Dean Foster novel typically filed under fantasy but probably more better classified as horror.  This year, when I was 45, I re-read it -- and I re-read it in book form, rather than ebook, but this was not out of some sort of misguided nostalgia for books or any claims that the 'tactile response' from books helps enhance learning; I am not a Luddite so afraid of the future that I cling to the past like Rose to Jack's icy hands.

No, I read this book...

to read the rest of this, click this link to go to Indie Writers Monthly.  
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2 comments:

Brian Miller said...

ha. but i love the feel and smell of books...i must be a luddite...smiles...

i really like your analysis of the book...or more specifically the writing...the pitfalls as well///that def helps as a writer...i have been guilty of the surprise trickery so you have given me something to think on...

and thanks for being a good reader as well...i appreciate the thought to my poem today...

3:02 AM
Rusty Carl said...

Nice... some jerk posted something only a few minutes after you did though. Pushing your story down into the feed.

Some people.

4:58 AM

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