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(Quote) > (Quote) Unfortunately I did not make it during the time limit.
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What an amazing discussion! I read this when the movie came out in 1976, although I didn’t see the movie until four years later. I turned 14 the year I read it, and, while I did not have the philosophical or psychological depth to fully appreciate …
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(Quote) Maybe. I have been following the discussion of The Buried Giant, which I read a couple of years ago, and I’ll probably follow along for The Man Who Fell to Earth, which I read as a teenager. After being woefully understaffed for over a year…
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(Quote) I read this a couple of years ago, so I’m going to pop in and see if I have anything to contribute to the discussion.
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(Quote) > Thanks for thinking of me, but I still don’t have the capacity. I’ve been the only one in my office the past year. I’m hiring two staffers who will start on Aug. 1, and things will loosen up for me after that.
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(Quote) I appreciate it, but I’m just not able. My pleasure reading is almost nil. :(
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I enjoyed Memory, even though I wasn’t able to join in the conversation, and I have Desolation in my to-read queue.
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(Quote) Thanks for asking, but, no, I just don’t have the capacity. I’m still slowly reading Vita Nostra. That’s how far behind I am.
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(Quote) I read a bunch of Anthony’s Xanth novels in the early 80s, until I became dead to puns. I liked his Blue Adept series quite a bit more and really liked his Incarnations of Immortality series. A couple of years ago I reread the first Xanth n…
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(Quote) That’s my reading of the book, too. It’s been decades since I’ve read it, but in the next book doesn’t he gouge out his eyes to try to keep from seeing visions of the uncontrollable horrors he has unleashed across the galaxy? And it seems li…
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(Quote) It’s interesting that you mention Faulkner. I’ve been thinking about the relationship between the stories here in a similar fashion to the various stories told in Absolam, Absolam! I’m developing my thoughts and have in mind a post in the th…
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A lighter, more comedic One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest.
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(Quote) I wonder whether Seraphina exists only in Lenden’s imagination and that it was Lenden who was raped by the priest, with Seraphina, the den, and the tower (with its attack by the animal) all invented to cover the trauma. Sorry for the months…
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I did like the structure. I didn’t know about the structure beforehand, and I wondered why the middle section was so much bigger and “complete” (but was it really, without what came after?). I was not uninterested in the first, partial stories, and …
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I finished this evening.
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I started reading Cloud Atlas as soon as it was announced, but I’m only about halfway through. I just have too much happening in my personal life to get much reading in.
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I love you guys, and I’ve been reading almost everything. I just don’t have time or energy to comment much (on time, at least), and I’m certain,y not up to leading a discussion right now. Maybe next rotation.
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I didn’t vote, since I haven’t been active the last few months. I’ve been reading everything, but I haven’t been getting finished in time to discuss. I’m starting tonight on Cloud Atlas.
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Very cool! I don’t imagine the creators would like to run a virtual one shot with their friends and frenemies at TTRPBC?
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Although certainly there is the Cold War analogy — and thanks for the information that the story was written in 1978. But I think there is more here than that. As usual I am way behind. I finished the first half of the story last night and had some…
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(Quote) I perhaps got carried away with this last sentence in the above quote. When I said meaning is absent, I didn’t mean it doesn’t exist. Deconstruction isn’t necessarily nihilistic. What I meant was that meaning is not readily at hand. Derrida …
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I yield to those with much more knowledge.
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I enjoyed this alternate world and the degree to which we were told about it. I also was was jolted a bit by the presence of a California, but I think that’s a minor issue.
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I was thinking about this a few days ago, before I read this question. I randomly picked a time period and part of the world and came up with the time of Hammurabi. I didn’t develop any thoughts on this, though, so here goes. If Hammurabi never com…
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No, I don’t like the portal to another world, as it did not fit with the rest of the book. I thought it was a cheap and ostentatious ending to what had up to the climax, been a good book. Anything could have been in those secret buildings, and it wo…
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I also enjoyed the book until the end. I didn’t think the protagonist’s actions were in character when she brought her (ex-)husband back to her place in order to be found in bed with him. And,,like others, I thought the last-minute revelation of po…
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I won’t be finished by the weekend, either, but I’m already behind in discussing Islanders, so me being behind here won’t be a change. :)
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It shows me the results but no link to vote. That makes me think my vote was accepted.
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I voted for A Memory Called Empire. I have read The Princess Bride and enjoyed it. I haven’t heard of Paladin’s Grace. I’ll join in the conversation regardless of which book eventually gets chosen.