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« Reply #30 on: January 13, 2021, 09:57:52 AM »
Where Pudding  is reminded by Katje's poop of the battle of Passchendaele,  yes.   

It's so nonlinear in structure,  there's a desire to skip around.   Will see how it goes. 
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« Reply #31 on: January 17, 2021, 07:58:45 PM »
Three Felony Opera?  (Larry said the Trump years will make a hell of an opera someday)

BTW,  Carl Hiaasen's new book,  "Squeeze Me, " is a hoot,  set in his usual Florida cesspits and swamps,  with sharp political satire (and some Trumpian jabs)  -- he is America's Evelyn Waugh.   
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« Reply #32 on: January 22, 2021, 01:21:06 PM »
Quote from: barton on January 17, 2021, 07:58:45 PM
Carl Hiaasen's new book... is a hoot...
As was one of his old ones....
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« Reply #33 on: January 24, 2021, 08:12:04 PM »
   Wasn't familiar with his YA books.  Owl ask the daughter if she read it -  she was in that demographic when "Hoot" was published. 

I came to the Hiaasen world via "Native Tongue, " which remains a favorite. 
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« Reply #34 on: January 28, 2021, 01:00:31 AM »
You might enjoy listening to Andy Duncan's Senator Bilbo, set in the Shiremoot:
https://podcastle.org/2008/11/04/pc032-senator-bilbo/

The full print short story can be read in the anthology Extreme Fantasy, findable in archive (dot) org.
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« Reply #35 on: August 27, 2021, 10:26:08 AM »
This review (from The Guardian)  gives a good sense of what you're getting into,  with Neil Gaiman's "American Gods" though I would be less restrained as to its brilliance.   It is a masterpiece of magical realism, and has become one of my favorite novels about the soul of America.

https://www.theguardian.com/books/booksblog/2014/jul/29/book-beach-american-gods-neil-gaiman

There are no must-read novels,  as Borges pointed out once,  but I think Borges would tell you in no uncertain terms to read this book.   
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« Reply #36 on: December 07, 2021, 07:53:09 PM »
https://www.guernicamag.com/control-negro/

Blew me away.  A penetrating look at how a black man, a college professor, imagines his life going differently and attempts a dark experiment.  Not sure I would read it again, but I will take something away from it.   
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« Reply #37 on: January 25, 2022, 05:37:25 PM »
I thought at first this was a baseball SF book, because of the title, but I think it's just SF - still looks interesting.

An "expendable" clone refuses to die and give way to his replacement.

https://static.macmillan.com/static/smp/mickey7-book
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« Reply #38 on: February 24, 2022, 02:54:22 PM »
A FB group I am in wondered who among living F & SF authors will be considered "classic" (meaning great, I guess) in 100 years.

I thought back 50 and 100 years and considered the modern views of James Branch Cabell and Mervyn Peake and concluded that while I know who I think is great at the moment, I have no ability to project that view into the future a 100 years or even 50.

I would have expected Jurgen to be considered a great book longer than The Wonderful Wizard of Oz.
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Why didn't the Fellowship just fly to Mordor on the Giant Eagles?
« Reply #39 on: March 31, 2022, 02:38:25 PM »
JRR Tolkien answers the question of why the Fellowship didn't just fly to Mordor on the Eagles:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1-Uz0LMbWpI
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« Reply #40 on: April 03, 2022, 06:52:53 PM »
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Ministry_for_the_Future

There are enough novels being written on this theme that it now has its own genre label: cli-fi (climate fiction).

About a third through the book.  So rich with ideas, facts, extrapolation,  various anonymous first person narrators who step in to recount their experiences, etc. that it can be a fairly slow read.  Robinson really knows his stuff, and his writing is like the iceberg tip of a vast body of research. 
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Holly Martins

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« Reply #41 on: May 13, 2022, 04:31:23 PM »
Wood Sorrel House, in the March 21 New Yorker, reminded me of something by Borges.  Abandon all standard story logic, ye who enter! 
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« Reply #42 on: August 19, 2022, 07:22:49 PM »
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/08/11/books/peter-beagle-the-last-unicorn.htm

Peter Beagle has regained control of his IP, including The Last Unicorn.
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« Reply #43 on: October 31, 2022, 08:53:57 PM »
John Banville has a new novel out.  What else do you need to know?
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« Reply #44 on: March 12, 2023, 04:53:48 PM »
Dipping a toe into the Easy Rawlins stories of Walter Mosley, with Six Easy Pieces.

Very readable style, from a writer with a sharp Chandlerian eye, and that knack for homing in on the telling detail without giving you five others you don't need. 
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