First off, I have to say that I completely agree with the initial statement 100 percent. I always try to keep that in mind when people ask to read what I wrote and want to provide feedback. I have had people say that they couldn't finish it, but that was because it wasn't "their thing". Of course, that makes it that much better when someone gives you the compliment of "I don't usually read this kind of stuff, but I liked your story."
I did want to make a quick comment about C.S. Lewis with regards to the Narnia series. I read those books as a child - they are the first books I remember reading (in reality I memorized the words and "read along" when my parents read it out loud). I have also read them several times since then, even as short as a couple of years ago. I don't know why, but I NEVER made the Christianity connection until people started talking about it after the movie of LW&W came out. I agree, it is painfully obvious, but I think that since I read them before I was very familiar with Christianity, I always just thought of it as a fantasy story and carried that with me. I think that says something both for kids' ability to just enjoy the story and also how impressions from when we are young stay with us.
By the way, I finished your book yesterday, Into the Reach. I will be typing up a review and feedback on it since you said you wanted it. I am hoping to get to that this weekend, but I won't promise anything since NorWesCon is this weekend. In short, I liked it and would recommend it, but there's some feedback I'd like to give you. You will be at GenCon this year, so that I can pick up the others in the trilogy, right?
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I did want to make a quick comment about C.S. Lewis with regards to the Narnia series. I read those books as a child - they are the first books I remember reading (in reality I memorized the words and "read along" when my parents read it out loud). I have also read them several times since then, even as short as a couple of years ago. I don't know why, but I NEVER made the Christianity connection until people started talking about it after the movie of LW&W came out. I agree, it is painfully obvious, but I think that since I read them before I was very familiar with Christianity, I always just thought of it as a fantasy story and carried that with me. I think that says something both for kids' ability to just enjoy the story and also how impressions from when we are young stay with us.
By the way, I finished your book yesterday, Into the Reach. I will be typing up a review and feedback on it since you said you wanted it. I am hoping to get to that this weekend, but I won't promise anything since NorWesCon is this weekend. In short, I liked it and would recommend it, but there's some feedback I'd like to give you. You will be at GenCon this year, so that I can pick up the others in the trilogy, right?