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Recruits!!! - Libby - 05-09-2008
It is so great to see theso many convertions. Oh, and I english we are presenting books, and mine was The Keep. I made at least 3 more convertions, including my english teacher.:yikes:I'm such a nerd:nerd:
What a cool smiley...
Recruits!!! - DogWoman - 05-09-2008
Libby Wrote:It is so great to see theso many convertions. Oh, and I english we are presenting books, and mine was The Keep. I made at least 3 more convertions, including my english teacher.:yikes:I'm such a nerd:nerd:
What a cool smiley...
I've gotten a few, but some of those people have a hard time sticking to a series, so I'm not sure they've kept up with it. Each year at the holiday party, though, my company raffles off baskets put together by different departments. Since I'm a technical writer, we're all asked to name our favorite books to have included in the basket. That's a nice opportunity, though I'm not sure if it's paid off....
Recruits!!! - mores - 05-10-2008
I have given my brother and brother-in law an FPW book as a present ... so far I haven't thought of asking them if they like it ...
Recruits!!! - NickelobLight - 05-13-2008
Just discovered FPW at the end of last year. Like Schwinn, the first one I read was Midnight Mass. Since then I've merely converted my brother and one of my staff that I supervise.
Funny story. I was at my buddy's brother's apartment the other day, (he's recently moved to G-ville to go to UF). I glanced at the floor in the corner of his room, and saw a book spine with the letters "B-L-A-C-K W-I-N-D." Not having read it yet, I went stumbling to it, (I had imbibed quite a few adult beverages). I picked it up triumphantly and grinned at him. After he looked at me like I was crazy, I walked back to the refrigerator to have a celebratory Red Stripe. This is when I noticed the submarine on the cover. 'Funny' I said to myself. 'I didn't know it was about submarines...'
[SIZE="5"]Stupid Clive Cussler!!![/SIZE]
Recruits!!! - mkmfpwfan - 05-13-2008
That is too funny, NL, I can completely understand how disappointed you felt. I am sure you had a few drinks more to console yourself. :cheers: Keri
Recruits!!! - NickelobLight - 05-14-2008
mkmfpwfan Wrote:That is too funny, NL, I can completely understand how disappointed you felt. I am sure you had a few drinks more to console yourself. :cheers: Keri
And how!
:beer:
Recruits!!! - Bruj - 05-16-2008
my fiance converted me (as i stated in a different topic), but i have converted my grandmother of all people to RJ. heh. working on my sister and her hubby right now..(shes shoved all of her Laurell K. Hamilton books in my face) and since i got her into Jim Butcher's "Dresden Files", i figure i will do her a solid and get her hooked into FPW.
Recruits!!! - BK Akitas - 05-17-2008
recently converted another friend, our kids have playdates together and he kept checking out the jackets on my bookcase. finally sent him home with a battered old reading copy of The Tomb, and then trusted him enough to let him go one by one through my 1st's. He's on All The Rage now and loving it.
Recruits!!! - Wapitikev - 07-26-2008
BK Akitas Wrote:recently converted another friend, our kids have playdates together and he kept checking out the jackets on my bookcase. finally sent him home with a battered old reading copy of The Tomb, and then trusted him enough to let him go one by one through my 1st's. He's on All The Rage now and loving it.
Another new convert.
I recently mentioned FPW to my haidresser (not that there's much there to dress). She was going up (even further) North for her vacation and wanted to know if there were any good horror-type books I could recommend. Of course FPW's name came up and she agreed to take my copies of Tomb, Conspiracies, Hosts, Haunted Air and "The Wringer" and "Long Way Home" with her...she located Legacies from the library but was unable to get All the Rage before she left.
This shortly became a BIG problem.
When she returned from vacation this week she was swearing at me (with a smile) for turning her into an addict and swearing at the library for not having All The Rage for her, before her holidays. Apparently she read the first three novels and the two short stories in 2 days and was dying to read Hosts and Haunted Air for the rest of her two weeks off, but was stuck in the middle of no-where without ATR...which she was already 1/2 way through, yesterday afternoon, BTW.
I told her to wait until she hits Harbingers.
Heh.
-Wapitikev
Recruits!!! - Automatic Jack - 07-26-2008
As of now, like in Hosts, it seems like RJ-addiction must be spread around manually before it becomes the airborne super-virus that will consume the globe! It's almost depressing to think how many more converts will flock to this board if the movie ever gets made and is popular. I have only ever met one other person who had read the books, but I know there must be others out there because someone besides me keeps borrowing them from the library. I should leave notes in there, see if I can't make contact.
I kind of like the semi-cultish status the RJ books have right now, with devoted fans, yet still under the radar. It seems like something Jack himself would appreciate if he knew he was a character in a series of novels.