incidents and accidents, hints and allegations

Okay, I actually went to three things at Readercon; this was the last. As it was a discussion, I didn't take many notes; and since work is going fairly well, I think I can spare a few minutes to type up my few notes while they're fresh (and while I'm waiting for the Advil to kick in. Boo, headaches.).

Short non-spoilered version: There were only six people in the audience, and one of them, well, I had to say at one point, "Excuse me, I wasn't finished talking." Despite, or because of, that John Langan did a nice job as moderator. No-one really had answers for my questions, but a few interesting points were brought up for me to ponder in other areas.

Here's the spoiler version. If you haven't read the books, it won't make any sense; and if you might read the books, it will ruin things for you.

( SPOILERS for the ending of the Dark Tower series )

Oh, and hey, I got thanked in the program for the suggestion of this discussion! I am unreasonably chuffed by this.

I've barely scratched the Readercon program, but the grid shows a Sunday morning discussion called "King's The Dark Tower."

I suggested a discussion on this topic, never heard back from programming, figured they thought it was a dumb idea, and didn't try and fit in a re-read so I could talk sensibly about it (since those of you who have read the spoiler-filled posts will have noted that I am not exactly a model of clarity on the topic).

I'm certainly not implying that the program committee should have done anything otherwise—I'm sure they've enough to do, and they may not have known they were putting it on until the last minute. But, but, I'm going to be so unprepared!

(Also, I woke up with a headache and itch appallingly from eight separate insect bites (acquired in less than five minutes, how I hate biting insects) and am stuck inside on a gorgeous day trying and failing to do loads of critical work. Pout pout pout.)

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