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Damn, this was good. I bought Pratchett's latest book for my wife for Christmas. I watched her read it a couple of times over the holidays so I knew that it met with approval and was likely to be a good 'un.
I wasn't disappointed. Nation is a thoughtful, funny, serious and above all, humane book. I loved that Pratchett didn't provide easy answers and dealt intelligently with both proof and faith, while managing to retain his signature humour and sense of character.
Beautifully done, Sir Terry.
I wasn't disappointed. Nation is a thoughtful, funny, serious and above all, humane book. I loved that Pratchett didn't provide easy answers and dealt intelligently with both proof and faith, while managing to retain his signature humour and sense of character.
Beautifully done, Sir Terry.
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I cheated and read it out of Pratchett order from my To Read Queue (TRQ) since I just had to read a book that had that enticing cover and intriguing blurb and wasn't a Discworld book. Lovely stuff. Popped it back in the TRQ to read again when I hit it in publication order later on some time.
In the meantime, finishing reading Deepsix by Jack McDevitt today. With a bit of luck. :)
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That was bugging me, since there was some interesting stuff in that collection, but not having the volume to hand, my memory is already starting to get fuzzy about who wrote what. (Somewhat obvious in the case of the actual Nebula winners, but the rest of the book seemed a little ah hoc, and the online stores don't seem to give full contents listings, annoyingly.)
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I've not read a McDevitt book that I didn't like to this point. Really good writer, really good storyteller, although there are times when stuff drags a bit. That's the problem I find with books that are over 550 pages or so. Deepsix was a superb book, though, and had good character development as well. It is, however, part of the Priscilla Hutchins series. You should read her first book, The Engines of God, first. It got a lot of McDevitt's now fans hooked on his stuff.
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Then there are people like this. I hates her, nasty Bagginses.
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Back in the TRQ so that you wouldn't notice when you checked up on yourself later? :)
These rave reviews are certainly wetting my appetite considerably. I have some guilty airport bargain purchases I should probably be discreetly moving further down _my_ TRQ (as well as some stuff that's been on it so long it may have quietly mouldered away).