Re: David Gerrold - War with the Cthorr

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> wrote in message 
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> All I'm saying is that there is something going on with A METHOD FOR
> MADNESS besides "didn't have time to finish it for sixteen years".
> Maybe he has indeed painted himself into a corner and can't get out.
> Maybe he has lost interest. Maybe it's like when I put something off
> so long that I can't bear to face it because it means owning up to my
> procrastination. Maybe he gets caught up with other things and
> forgets about it. I have no idea.
>
> But I don't believe it's because he's been too busy with other stuff
> to finish. Do you really think it is? That if he really wanted to he
> couldn't have found the time in 16 years to finish up a novel that is
> supposedly mostly done?

Well, he *claimed* that "Chtorr" is his magnum opus, and he can not
release it if it is anything less than perfect.


As much as a raz DG about not fini****ng this and reselling it to us many 
times, I would NOT want to see something published just to shut people up 
that was clearly not up to the writing level of the previous books.  Can
you 
say Dark Tower? <grin>

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