I should mention that, in addition to Lisa, Scott Miller read my sad tale on this thread and was kind enough to send me =several= fpw book that are currently out of print that I didn't have.
I recieved them this past week and have been wallowing in them ever since.
I wanted to say a public 'thanks' to Scott for his generosity, and again to Lisa for hers.
BTW...
I got 'The Select' from Lisa, as I posted a while ago. I read it 3 times in the first 5 days I had it.
I've had nightmares in my life, but I haven't had many so real that I actually thought during the dream 'is this just a dream?', and decided =in the dream= that it couldn't be a dream for it was just too real,... nor have I had any that I =litereally= woke up from screaming. At least not any of those for the last 30 or 35 years or so of my life.
As a public service announcement, I'd like to let y'all know that reading 'The Select' 3 times in 5 days will do that to you. At least, it did it to me. You are warned.
Thanks again, Scott for the bounty you sent me;
Lisa, for the book that is my fav fpw book or 2nd favorite (I think now, having re-read (at long last) Black Wind, which Scott was kind enough to share with me, it might edge out 'the Select', but it's a tough, and happy, choice to make);
and to The Man himself, FPW, for scaring the living shit out me at a time in my life when I didn't think I could be scared anymore. And he did it with words he wrote more than 20 years ago, and those same words scared me then too.
This board is a wonderful place, and I thank you all for your generosity to me at a time when I pariticularly needed it.
Marty
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