The Official Unofficial Book Group Book Discussion thread
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Apr 2021
7:31pm, 10 Apr 2021
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Serendippily
The answer you asked for and much more besides 
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Apr 2021
8:13pm, 10 Apr 2021
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Diogenes
I have picked up an old Ian Rankin Rebus novel, Set In Darkness. I can always reread a Rebus.
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Apr 2021
9:07pm, 10 Apr 2021
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Angus Clydesdale
Love Rebus. I’m currently re-reading some Sharpe novels. From the train ticket “bookmarks” inside I can tell you the last time I read them was when I was commuting to RAF Leuchars in early 2001.
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Apr 2021
8:30am, 11 Apr 2021
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GregP
I read the Sharpe novels when I ran out of Aubrey/Maturin - same era, broadly, but much more ‘pulpy’. Fun though. In other news we may have another book I’m going to bang on and on about until people cave in and read it (see also Station 11, Bland Watchmaker of Fiddly-Diddly-Peat-Pog Strasse). Old Man’s War by John Scalzi. It starts very, very well. And it’s fairly short. |
Apr 2021
8:33am, 11 Apr 2021
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McGoohan
I *quite* liked Station Ocean's Eleven. Except for the annoying bits.
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Apr 2021
8:41am, 11 Apr 2021
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GregP
But you didn’t like Fiddly-Diddly Street Blues at all IIRC? I suspect OMW will appeal to many of the group as we are collectively Not Getting Any Younger. As such. |
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Apr 2021
8:41am, 11 Apr 2021
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GregP
I hate that I’ve become one of those old men who visits a cemetery to be with his dead wife. When I was (much) younger I used to ask Kathy what the point would be. A pile of rotting meat and bones that used to be a person isn’t a person anymore; it’s just a pile of rotting meat and bones. The person is gone—off to heaven or hell or wherever or nowhere. You might as well visit a side of beef. When you get older you realize this is still the case. You just don’t care. It’s what you have.
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Apr 2021
8:42am, 11 Apr 2021
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McGoohan
No, Station Eleven's words am much better writ.
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Apr 2021
8:48am, 11 Apr 2021
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GregP
I thought the writing in The Blind Watchmaker's Assassin's Creedence Clearwater Revival was the least of your problems with it?
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Apr 2021
8:56am, 11 Apr 2021
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McGoohan
Well, it was *one* of the things. Alongside the inconsistent tone, all the 'tell don't show', narrative blind alleys, etc. Not sure which I'd rank ...er... highest. Fear not, I have a reading confession that will knock all this into a cocked hat. But I'll leave you waiting for that revelation as I'm orft out till the afternoon. |
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