Jul. 31st, 2012

darchildre: herbert is breaking his pencils because you are so dumb.  text:  "you said *what* now?" (herbert is smarter than you)
So, a patron comes up to the desk and asks my help in remembering the name of a particular author. "Do you read sci-fi and fantasy?" she asked. "I know it's not Philip K Dick and I think that it starts with an L."

It did not start with an L, because it was Piers Anthony. I had assumed that she was looking for an author that she'd read before, but apparently not because she asked me if I had read them (which I had, in middle school, like so many of my generation) and then asked me for recommendations.

The thing is, when a patron asks something like that and it seems like they actually want those books, you can't say, "Well, none of them, really, because Xanth is full of puns and all of them are kinda skeezy." After a few seconds, I ended up saying that I remembered liking the Incarnations of Immortality series.

I guess I just sort of assume that people know that Piers Anthony is kind of a creeper who is way too interested in the underwear of adolescent girls. It always surprises me when people don't know these things.

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