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Ray_Otus
About
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- Ray_Otus
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- The Hobbit, Dune, Roadside Picnic, All Creatures Great and Small, Nero Wolfe...
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(Quote) So ... tell me about your aversion to the Foundation Trilogy. :) I will probably agree with you on some points. It's not the strongest set of works in the list though it is kind of fascinating. Last time I experienced it was in the form of t…
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* Almost forgot the asterisk. Last night the most notable standouts were 1) Tolkien saying Hobbits were smaller than Dwarves but much larger than Liliputians and 2) the idea that some ancestor in the Took line married a faerie wife or as some less c…
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My best self fully intends to participate more this year as I "flee" other forms of social media and concentrate a bit more on my reading. Last year was an awful reading year for me. I read mostly rubbish and not much even of that. Not sur…
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But then what do I know. After being a powerhouse for a few years, I have fallen face-first onto the pavement this year.
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My bad!
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You mean this isn't a book about Quaker Eskimos and all the words they have for snow?
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:D Ah those old paperback covers.
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Also - is that a furry hood, a beefeater hat, or a fro?
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Up to you @clash_bowley. I will be trying to bust through it in the next few days, but don't feel like you need to wait on me. I will jump in as soon as I'm done. And I don't mind if others have already had a say. If anything I can swoop in and give…
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I JUST got my copy in the mail. Hoping to jump in at some point early on. (Image)
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Ok. Now I'm laughing at the cover blurb for Languages of Pao. "A fascinating concept." Also, I laugh every time I see that commercial about the guy who counsels people and helps them not turn into their parents. He's sitting beside a guy …
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Also, props to @Apocryphal for emailing me a few times to keep ties. Good man.
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I am reading an interesting early anthology of science fiction, https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6218036-the-best-of-science-fiction
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Hah. I don't even put much in Goodreads anymore. I need to catch up. And if you are watching me there you can see that my reading has, for the most part, devolved into some real junk. I'm reading graphic novels with some pals and Dragonlance with my…
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<-- Feeling the need to connect with old (from former days, not necessarily silver-haired) pals.
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Creak. Cautiously peeks in. You guys still sitting here in the dark talking books and smoking your weird pipes? ;) What is the November selection?
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So, I just came back to this and re-read it this week. Oh my God what a great book! I especially loved the afterward by LeGuin which I don't believe I've ever read before. (It was written after the 6th book because she mentions that.) Anyway ... yes…
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Good stuff @RichardAbbott. I think that's a very accurate bit of insight.
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(Quote) Yeah, this disappointed me in the first reading. I felt like I was just getting to know the weird world of the torturers and was wondering what story could possibly be told about Severian as a torturer, then it gets left behind (mostly). Th…
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Ha. I didn't mean for that to sound salty. Just more of a poke in the ribs. Sorry for the confusion. :)
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Ok. I guess I did get the joke then. It just wasn't funny. LOL.
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Ha. No I simply missed that. I couldn't remember if they were patrolled or not, but clearly they were "patrolled by uhlans under orders to kill anyone found upon them." I don't get the joke about improv.
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If they were maintained, one would suppose it would be done so by the Autarch's patrols. An arm of the military like the Army Core of Engineers. But it doesn't even seem they are patrolled. Correct? It reinforces the dying world concept. Human-kind'…
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(Quote) Yes! I thought about this a lot too. I was looking for other points of reference but it's just the situation really.
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(Quote) I read this sentence at least five times. I'm pretty sure this is exactly how my memory works. (Quote) Is it, though? (Quote) Ewwww. (Quote) Been there.
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Are we building the Annotated New Sun here? I feel like we are. This is some pure gold shit right here. :)
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Great comments @Apocryphal! I looked up a lot of those words too. I'm glad you put the definitions in here. I also wondered about that 'coming of the New Sun' ideology. I figure it's one of two things – a) as you speculate, some kind of belief that …
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(Quote) To be fair, I think one artifact of a slow read is that in some weeks you will happen to read only "set up" chapters. Surprisingly, I felt like that only happened once or twice in all of The Lord of the Rings. That book/trilogy is …
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Ooops. YES. Zelazny's.
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The torture device is interesting. A super bright light that causes you to conjure up a psychological demon (born of guilt?) that turns your body against itself? Horrible and complex. It's very "hands off" in a way. And I like how the tort…