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<blockquote data-quote="netizen" data-source="post: 83586"><p>Since last posting I have read:</p><p></p><p>The main novels and about 6 short stories from "The Tales of The Company." A series by Kage Baker about <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dr._Zeus_Inc." target="_blank">Dr. Zeus Inc</a>. generally it is about time travelling cyborgs and pirates from an anthropological perspective on history. Well, actually there's a hell of a lot more, but to discuss it would be spoiler-ific.</p><p></p><p>I also read a 1960s sci-fi adventure called "<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill,_the_Galactic_Hero" target="_blank">Bill, the Galactic Hero</a>" it was a bit like Starship Troopers and The Naked Lunch all mashed together with a twist of bugs bunny.</p><p></p><p>Based on the recommendations here I read the first 2 Jack Reacher books ... Holy 90s batman.</p><p></p><p>Presently I have decided to wrap my head around a large brick. I have begun reading "Foucault's Pendulum" by Umberto Eco. Thus far, about 200 pages in, it is rather funny, very obtuse, goes off on very, very long tangents, and has my next two books picked out for me based on a random comment from a tangent.</p><p></p><p>The next two books, which are equally large bricks of literature are "Gone With the Wind" and "War and Peace." The tangential anecdote that has selected these not pocketbook sized tomes was a writer, in the book I am currently reading, commenting that if you swap the protagonists names and locations, the two books are interchangeable. </p><p></p><p>Now, seeing as I haven't read either book to the end, I tried War and Peace before, then I cannot prove or disprove this quip. So, I am flummoxed. I can pass this quip off as an anecdote and hope, just hope that no-one calls my lazy intellectual posturing. Or I can read them, and maybe, i'll be done before xmas.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="netizen, post: 83586"] Since last posting I have read: The main novels and about 6 short stories from "The Tales of The Company." A series by Kage Baker about [URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dr._Zeus_Inc."]Dr. Zeus Inc[/URL]. generally it is about time travelling cyborgs and pirates from an anthropological perspective on history. Well, actually there's a hell of a lot more, but to discuss it would be spoiler-ific. I also read a 1960s sci-fi adventure called "[URL="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill,_the_Galactic_Hero"]Bill, the Galactic Hero[/URL]" it was a bit like Starship Troopers and The Naked Lunch all mashed together with a twist of bugs bunny. Based on the recommendations here I read the first 2 Jack Reacher books ... Holy 90s batman. Presently I have decided to wrap my head around a large brick. I have begun reading "Foucault's Pendulum" by Umberto Eco. Thus far, about 200 pages in, it is rather funny, very obtuse, goes off on very, very long tangents, and has my next two books picked out for me based on a random comment from a tangent. The next two books, which are equally large bricks of literature are "Gone With the Wind" and "War and Peace." The tangential anecdote that has selected these not pocketbook sized tomes was a writer, in the book I am currently reading, commenting that if you swap the protagonists names and locations, the two books are interchangeable. Now, seeing as I haven't read either book to the end, I tried War and Peace before, then I cannot prove or disprove this quip. So, I am flummoxed. I can pass this quip off as an anecdote and hope, just hope that no-one calls my lazy intellectual posturing. Or I can read them, and maybe, i'll be done before xmas. [/QUOTE]
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