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I liked this one on both readings. A classic thriller, could easily have been its own movie. Bill Smoke - great name!
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I’m curious. Can all the stories be mapped to this one?
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I enjoyed this one the most on this read. It’s a bit like an old British sitcom in may ways. Of course the character doesn’t grow - he’s an old man who thinks he always in the right. But it was entertaining, and often quite funny. I liked the little…
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I quite liked this one. I found all the characters convincing. I didn’t like them on a personal level but I was interested to hear what happened to them. I think life is dull of such struggles. I’m having one of my own within my family. I less sure …
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When I read the book the first time, I really liked it. It sucked me right in. But I was travelling at the time and staying in a hand-made wood shack with a grass roof, and the milieu of the story matched my surrounds. This time around, I found it h…
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I liked the structure and think it was deftly handled, with basically a nod to the previous story. The first story ends mid-sentence, and Frobisher acknowledges this. As I mentioned elsewhere, are we supposed to read into this that the characters ar…
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I think I have heard the music! I think I can hear it in the music of Hovhaness, Macewen, Hanson, Hadley, Sainton, and other early 20th C. composers, at least. My guess is that the very different voices was about Mitchell flexing his writerly mu…
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I’m used to books taking 90 pages or more to set up. I mean, Cloud Atlas takes even longer. So not bothered by that. Some very fine books have slow pacing. But some of this set- up seems to be belaboured or repeated, and that does bother me a little…
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I’m finished as well.
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I have a working theory atm that this And Ante character is actually Jacj, living under cover after having deserted. And this transcribing of Sando’s music into progressive rock is a way of sending a message, of drawing Sandro down Temmil.
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I’ll be done sometime over the weekend.
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I’m not likely to be done by the end of the month, but I’ve read it before and am moving through at a pretty good clip.
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Although not explicitly said, my thought was that the ‘pauses’ in the composition represented people lost in war to Alynna, emphasized by the red notation, and that’s what disturbed her. I wonder if we’ll see much of her. My impression was that t…
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Why yes, I think so.
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I have a hardcover already - ‘complete Binti’ with 3 novellas, runs about 300 pages. Haven’t read it yet.
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Sounds good - and thanks for thinking of me wrt the slow read - that hadn't occurred to me!
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I have no preference. I suspect Burn After Running is out for good. As a group, we're getting smaller - though 6 is still not bad.
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You can see the rhyming pattern by the little kneeling guy with arm upraised.
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Another thing: Neil pointed out early on that all the main characters in this collection were not islanders, which suggested the islands were only a place you came to. One theme of this story is that the islands are also not a place you can settle d…
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> @WildCard said: > I love you guys, and I’ve been reading almost everything. Ditto!
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Me too, obviously. I wouldn't hold out for anyone other than the current regulars.
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I wondered about that bit of innuendo, too. I thought the cavalcade of islands that the soldier described felt like something of a summation. A bit of a preamble to ‘concluding remarks’, perhaps. Also, yes, the 3000 years and ‘the islanders’ …
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Personally, I would just start the new rotation with September, and continue with picks by members. Since it seems like we’re down to 5 pickers, maybe we have room to stretch out with some longer works (giving a longer book 2 months?). Of the tw…
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Thanks, Richard!
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Like both of you, I was disappointed in the ending. There were so many loose threads, and it is difficult to tie the themes together. With respect to the watcher/watched dichotomy, there isn’t really a final punchline. My initial response was the sa…
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(Quote) Like a Russian Doll, is how it's often described.
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Cuneiform signs often have multiple meanings, and when a text that was intended to be read one way could also be read in a second, supporting, way, it was thought to have more divine weight, as it were. For example, during the early dynastic period,…
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I think you should pick a book YOU like. You're only here for one book, usually, so make it count. You seemed quite disappointed when you didn't like Blake Crouch, for example, so I'd suggest trying to make the most of your time with something you k…
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Yes, I also thought about the similarity with The Magus.
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I agree it all felt… constructed. Not an organic unfolding of events, but a manufactured tale. I suppose that means I didn’t ‘find it convincing’ but on the other hand, I’m not sure Priest was trying to convince me of anything. The idea of a gard…