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agilebritAnd how she's one of the authors I should be reading. So I picked up "To Say Nothing of the Dog" at the library the last time we went. Cuz, you know, there's a dog in the title, and you can hook me right away with something like that.
OMG, y'all.
This is tasty, tasty crack. I was wondering where the funny SF was, and it's right here. Part Shakespearean farce, part time travel story. I highly recommend this. HIGHLY. Usually in a book with this many characters, I have trouble keeping track of them all, but not in this one. They're all very well drawn, and the plot is fantabulous.
I may have to buy this one.
OMG, y'all.
This is tasty, tasty crack. I was wondering where the funny SF was, and it's right here. Part Shakespearean farce, part time travel story. I highly recommend this. HIGHLY. Usually in a book with this many characters, I have trouble keeping track of them all, but not in this one. They're all very well drawn, and the plot is fantabulous.
I may have to buy this one.
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Date: 2008-01-21 05:13 am (UTC)no subject
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Date: 2008-01-26 09:37 am (UTC)I have now read 90% of Connie Willis's books and stories. I'd say her best are Doomsday Book, Impossible Stories, and Passage (which is all about near-death experiences). Her short stories are hilarious as well, especially "Even the Queen" and "Spice Pogrom," as are her novellas (I love Remake, Bellwether, and Inside Job).
In a complete 180, I also recommend Tim Powers. I finished his giant novel Declare and it's awesome. He writes "secret histories," where supernatural events are interwoven with actual historical events (nothing in the past is changed - he researches his novels for years to get all the facts correct).
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Date: 2008-01-26 05:48 pm (UTC)Tim's on my list of "authors I need to read" as well. :)