User talk:Somacow

SF stuff
Somacow:

Have a browse through http://www.sfsite.com/revwho.htm#Peter%20D.%20Tillman

Or, if you don't mind their shitty, inflexible interface, and lots of non-SF stuff, try

http://www.amazon.com/gp/cdp/member-reviews/A3GHSD9VY8XS4Q

Happy reading!

Pete Tillman

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(In review of the above link, I happened across your review of Interlopers -

"beneath his shirt and shorts, small, corded muscles exploded like caramel popcorn." Or, describing a tropical town, "aspects of the old South Seas clung to it like lost adjectives from a novel by Conrad."

HAAAAAAAAhahahahaha... I will get to my new summer reading list. Thanks again! Geoff )


 * Heh. Completely forgot that one. But here's my all=time fave:


 * "She could and had faced an armed laser in the hands of a mad mutant mercenary with less fear than she faced such unswerving emotion..." -- JD Robb, Immortal in Death, 1996

Cheers --Pete Tillman (talk) 20:31, 25 June 2009 (UTC)

It even has alliteration! Truly a work of art. I think it was George Carlin, or maybe Stephen King, one of those guys, who lamented the state of modern writing. His example phrase of how not to write was something to the effect of, "The clouds hung ponderously, like great grey gorilla turds." STILL cracks me up.


 * Heh. Missed that one.


 * Here's a pointer to my one attempt at a JD Robb/Nora Roberts:
 * http://www.amazon.com/review/RU7TP98WASZQ2
 * Google for Eye of Argon if u've missed it. Sample:

The man upon the throne had a naked wench seated at each of his arms, and a trusted advisor seated in back of him. At each cornwr of the chamber a guard stood at attention, with upraised pikes supported in their hands, golden chainmail adorning their torso's and barred helmets emitting scarlet plumes enshrouding their heads. The man rose from his throne to the dias surrounding it. His plush turquois robe dangled loosely from his chuncky frame.

"Explain the purpose of this intrusion upon my chateau!" -- Eye of Argon


 * Entertaining profile of Nora R in last week's NYer. Might be free online. Cheers -- Pete Tillman