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I’ve read the vast majority. There may be three or four that I haven’t read that I need to track down. After finishing Mixed Up yesterday, today I grabbed a copy of Operation Do-Over that I purchased maybe four or six months ago, but haven’t read yet. I have perhaps a dozen books that I only have digitally, and eventually I want to have actual books. Gordon is one of only two authors that I still really want to have physical copies of their books. (If anyone wants to know, the other is fantasy writer Brandon Sanderson.)

Interestingly enough, my all-time favorite, Son of Interflux, was read, reread, and loaned out so much that it was starting to fall apart. A friend was kind enough to find a new hard-cover copy in perfect condition on ebay, and bought it for me. So now I have two hard covers of the original printing, plus possibly a paperback of one of the later re-releases. Let’s see, still to read are the last two books of Masterminds (and the first, again, so it will be fresh in my mind) and a couple of the Swindle books, Linked, the Unteachables, and as I said, I’m reading Do-Over now. I also think I want to get one of the newer printings of Pop, and get the more recent info in it. Six unread out of 102 isn’t too bad!

The thing about the ultra-humerous books is that I absolutely love humor … early Gordon Korman, Douglas Adams, Terry Pratchett, P. G. Wodehouse … but there aren’t all that many really humorous authors, and the early GKs just blew me away! Even if the individual lines aren’t all that fully on their own, the way they are put together was funny … “Bunny rabbit slippers, Howard?”

And I, also, was writing from a fairly early age, but eventually drifted away from it. Perhaps that’s another trend for Korman fans!