That's really sad. (In the least sarcastic way possible.) If there's any authors who come close to rating 10s on my scale, they're her and Asimov - both of them I very nearly started cults to worship in junior high. I actually started wearing pants with a big cargo pocket at the knee for teh purpose of carrying around the hardcover copies of the Dragonriders trilogy and Harper Hall trilogy so I could read them anytime, and had to get new copies to go on the bookshelf because the ones I carried, the covers got warped into the shape of my leg. I worked out how to glue a ribon bookmark into the binding without messing up the books to do it on that series, so they wouldn't get pulled out going into and out of the pockets. I asnwered analogy questions on tests with things like "white as Ruth" and "bold as Moreta." And, since the English teacher was so happy to have a student who actually read for fun, I would get the correct answers changed so they were marked right after explaining the analogy.
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"Anko, what you do in your free time is your own choice. Use it wisely. And if you do not use it wisely, make sure you thoroughly enjoy whatever unwise thing you are doing." - HymnOfRagnorok as Orochimaru at SpaceBattles
woot Med. Eng., verb, 1st & 3rd pers. prsnt. sg. know, knows
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"Anko, what you do in your free time is your own choice. Use it wisely. And if you do not use it wisely, make sure you thoroughly enjoy whatever unwise thing you are doing." - HymnOfRagnorok as Orochimaru at SpaceBattles
woot Med. Eng., verb, 1st & 3rd pers. prsnt. sg. know, knows