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maribouThe whole Legends concept equates to short novellas by big-time fantasy authors, set in their most famous worlds. So this one had Pern and Majipoor and Shannara and a short sequel to American Gods and an Alvin Maker story and like that. I enjoyed it, but with the possible exception of Robin Hobb (whom I already kinda wanted to read anyway), I didn't find any intriguing new authors the way I did with the first volume of Legends. Also, still with the Shannara-hating.
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Candyfreak is really a super book. SO much fun, and smart, and hard to put down. Especially if you share the author's sweet tooth.
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Richard Dawkins is the editor for The Best American Science and Nature Writing 2003. Since the man drives me up the wall, I was unsurprised to find that some of his selections for this collection also drove me up a wall. But they weren't stupid, and the essays I did like, I liked very much indeed. I love reading these sorts of books; I feel a need to keep up with my 'field', for some vague definition of that term. Plus it tends to stimulate my wonder sensors.
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Limbo is Alfred Lubrano's part-memoir/part-extended-article/part-sociological-synthesis about "Straddlers" - people who grew up blue-collar and now live in a white-collar milieu. Very interesting, and I could relate to a lot of what he described, even though my own upbringing was harder to pigeonhole. Not a very intellectual book, but a very readable one.
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Listening to Brahms, by Suzy McKee Charnas is a chapbook, very short, and worth reading if you enjoy the psychological side of science fiction - more of a 'how would speculative developments x, y, and z affect someone's interior life?' than a 'what would be the mechanisms of speculative developments x, y, and z?'. Also probably categorizable as fable or allegory. But it was really lovely. She has a certain ... spareness ... to her writing - clean lines and so forth - that I really appreciate.
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(104/200)
Candyfreak is really a super book. SO much fun, and smart, and hard to put down. Especially if you share the author's sweet tooth.
(105/200)
Richard Dawkins is the editor for The Best American Science and Nature Writing 2003. Since the man drives me up the wall, I was unsurprised to find that some of his selections for this collection also drove me up a wall. But they weren't stupid, and the essays I did like, I liked very much indeed. I love reading these sorts of books; I feel a need to keep up with my 'field', for some vague definition of that term. Plus it tends to stimulate my wonder sensors.
(106/200)
Limbo is Alfred Lubrano's part-memoir/part-extended-article/part-sociological-synthesis about "Straddlers" - people who grew up blue-collar and now live in a white-collar milieu. Very interesting, and I could relate to a lot of what he described, even though my own upbringing was harder to pigeonhole. Not a very intellectual book, but a very readable one.
(107/200)
Listening to Brahms, by Suzy McKee Charnas is a chapbook, very short, and worth reading if you enjoy the psychological side of science fiction - more of a 'how would speculative developments x, y, and z affect someone's interior life?' than a 'what would be the mechanisms of speculative developments x, y, and z?'. Also probably categorizable as fable or allegory. But it was really lovely. She has a certain ... spareness ... to her writing - clean lines and so forth - that I really appreciate.
(108/200)
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