The next Next maintains Fforde's level of fun, wittily written and literature-obsessed books. A lot has changed in Thursday's world since we last left her, and the some of the humor and kinds of references have changed to reflect that. You get to delve into the ChronoGuard more, and there's a great Rumpole joke.
The new Danielewski book is extremely crazy and borderline unreadable. It's like a combination of a five-year-old's megalomania and self-attention, Walt Whitman's grandiose wordage, and Kerouac's stream of consciousness, only you have to keep flipping it over every eight pages. Nuts.
I'd bump Game of Thrones, but it's the only book in that part of the list that's not a library book and thus lacking a time limit of sorts. I've had it from a book exchange for about three years now. I'll get around to it eventually (I loaned Steven Erikson's Gardens of the Moon to him in exchange; he hasn't gotten around to reading it either).
I'll remember to take a look at Old Man's War, though I've never actually read Starship Troopers or seen the movie.
Based on a co-incidence of Phil talking about reading it a few minutes after listening to an extremely interesting (and positive) review of it on MPR, I've added Jeffrey Eugenides' Middlesex to my reserve list at the library.
The new Danielewski book is extremely crazy and borderline unreadable. It's like a combination of a five-year-old's megalomania and self-attention, Walt Whitman's grandiose wordage, and Kerouac's stream of consciousness, only you have to keep flipping it over every eight pages. Nuts.
I'd bump Game of Thrones, but it's the only book in that part of the list that's not a library book and thus lacking a time limit of sorts. I've had it from a book exchange for about three years now. I'll get around to it eventually (I loaned Steven Erikson's Gardens of the Moon to him in exchange; he hasn't gotten around to reading it either).
I'll remember to take a look at Old Man's War, though I've never actually read Starship Troopers or seen the movie.
Based on a co-incidence of Phil talking about reading it a few minutes after listening to an extremely interesting (and positive) review of it on MPR, I've added Jeffrey Eugenides' Middlesex to my reserve list at the library.
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