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What books are you reading?
zridling:
Recently finished Brave New Worlds: Dystopian Stories, an anthology edited by John Joseph Adams.
-40hz (June 03, 2011, 08:44 AM)
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Damn, damn, damn, 40hz! I got to have it now.
TaoPhoenix:
Rise and Fall of the Roman Empire. Edward Gibbon. Classic.
TaoPhoenix:
Harlan Ellison is a minor deity. However he's just starting to become eclipsed. I Have No Mouth is fading just a little to 1984 and Fahrenheit 451.
Tech is doing just fine when we can use it. It's Government and Corps that are deadly today.
rjbull:
Harlan Ellison is a minor deity. However he's just starting to become eclipsed. I Have No Mouth is fading just a little to 1984 and Fahrenheit 451. -TaoPhoenix (June 12, 2011, 03:23 PM)
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That's a good point, and one I hadn't thought of. Well put.
rjbull:
Currently reading: a tale etched in blood and hard black pencil by Christopher Brookmyre, one of his free-standing novels (i.e., not part of a series).
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Finished it now. I was expecting an exuberantly rude story like his first novel, Quite Ugly One Morning, but this is different. Lots of schoolboy bad language and scatology, but cleverly constructed and well written.
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Synopsis:
We could tell you about the bodies. We could tell you their names, where they were found, the state they were in. We could tell you about the suspects too, the evidence, the investigators; join a few dots, even throw you a motive. But what would be the point? You’re going to make your own assumptions anyway. After all, you know these people, don’t you? You went to school with them. We all did. Granted, that was twenty years ago, but how much does anybody really change? Exactly. So if you really knew them then, you’ll already have all the answers. If you really knew them then…
Put on your uniform and line up in an orderly fashion for the funniest and most accurate trip back to the classroom you are likely to read, as well as a murder mystery like nothing that has gone before it. Forget the forensics: only once you’ve been through school with this painfully believable cast of characters will you be equipped to work out what really happened decades later. Even then, you’ll probably guess wrong and be made to stand in the corner.
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