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Autostraddle Summer Book Club 2011 12 years, 3 months agoI’m so glad this exists, I read this book and I have to tell everyone! It’s called Escape Hatch and it’s by Vladimir Makanin. It has two novellas so I guess I’ll talk about them separately.
The first one, also called Escape Hatch, is 88 pages and is amazing. It’s about a society that has completely broken down; it’s always twilight, people are…[Read more]
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Autostraddle Summer Book Club 2011 12 years, 3 months agoYOU GUYS I FINALLY FINISHED UNDERWORLD. it was 827 pages and it was fucking great. the end.
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Autostraddle Summer Book Club 2011 12 years, 3 months agoLast night I finished The Hitchhikers Guide To The Galaxy (160 pages). I won’t summarise the story as I think it’s pretty well known. I’m still working out what I thought about it – it was funny and imaginative, it was accessible to non-Sci-Fi fans (I like sci-fi but I’m saying this as I know some might be put off by that…[Read more]
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I felt like there was something missing from the Hitchhiker’s Guide too, but I think I accepted it as funny enough to make up for a less character-driven plot. If you want funny not-so-sci-fi with more character development, you should read some Terry Pratchett if you haven’t already. My only complaint about his books is not knowing in which order…[Read more]
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I can see how Douglas Adams probably inspired books like Good Omens. Also there was a hint of Jim Butcher (I’ve only read Storm Front but for some reason it popped to might reading H2G2).
As for Pratchett’s books, I’ve not read many but I did like Masquerade which was a riff on Phantom of the Opera. Do you have any in particular you’d recommend?
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I liked Nightwatch and The Fifth Elephant a lot, and they sort of addressed my problem with Pratchett by being about the same core group of characters. I’ve also read Thief of Time, which was good but at times I struggled to stay interested. I liked Death a lot in Thief of Time and that might be a good way of thinking about it — read the ones tha…[Read more]
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Thanks for the advice, I’ll definitely look into more Pratchett books in future :)
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Speaking of Sam, the books about the City Watch (starting with Guards! Guards! I think) are a pretty good place to start.
So is Monstrous Regiment, if you were ever into the type of books where girls dress up as boys to go into the army or have adventures or whatever and then kick ass.
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Have put Monstrous Regiment on my ‘to read’ list, thanks!
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I loved Hitchiker’s Guide so much when I first read it!
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Are you in the Hitchhiker’s Guide group here on ASS?
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I’m not but I’ll definitely check it out as I carry on with the rest of the trilogy :)
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Autostraddle Summer Book Club 2011 12 years, 3 months ago@internrachel @julia1 I’ve just read No Logo by Naomi Klein 446 pages. It’s split into 4 sections: No Space, No Choice, No Jobs, No Logo .
No Space is about a lack of non-branded public space, which isn’t a lot more interesting than it sounds so I’ll leave it at that.
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Autostraddle Summer Book Club 2011 12 years, 3 months agoHappy 4th @internrachel and @julia1 ! I finished reading Portrait of a Killer: Jack the Ripper Case Closed by Patricia Cornwell, 383 pgs, yesterday but I was relaxing by a lake with no internet reception. Ugh, I needed a break after reading it, not good at all! The case is definitely not closed; Cornwell went into the book with a suspect and fit…[Read more]
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Autostraddle Summer Book Club 2011 12 years, 3 months agoOkay, so I have a lot of books to talk about @internrachel @julia1!
So, first I read an advance reader’s copy of A Monster Calls by Patrick Ness, 205 pages. It was a YA novel at its most mediocre, and kind of painful to finish. The plot was overused, the prose stilted, and the entire book was just sort of irritating. I did, however, have fun…[Read more]
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Steph posted an update in the group
Autostraddle Summer Book Club 2011 12 years, 3 months agoI just finished “Dress you Family in Corduroy and Denim,” a collection of David Sedaris’ essays (257 pgs). I had heard a few his essays before on TAL (Thanks Autostraddle! ), before deciding to pick up one of his books. My favourites were the stories from his childhood, and mostly came from the first half of the book. I read my mom excerpts of…[Read more]
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Priya posted an update in the group
Autostraddle Summer Book Club 2011 12 years, 3 months agoI had a bit of a spending spree in a charity shop at the weekend and so bought and read ‘All My Friends are Superheroes’ by Andrew Kaufman on Saturday. At 108 pages it is just a wee novella but an absolute joy that I got through in one sitting.
The story is that of Tom and his new wife The Perfectionist (Perf). Tom is a…[Read more]
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Autostraddle Summer Book Club 2011 12 years, 3 months ago@internrachel @julia1
Today I read Geisha, A Life by Mineko Iwasaki with Rande Brown translating (296 pages). Now would probably be a good time to mention that I’m disabled and since reading is one of the few things I can manage on high-pain days, this is all I did today.But it was a day well spent, because this was a fascinating autobiography.…[Read more]
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Amanda Williams posted an update in the group
Autostraddle Summer Book Club 2011 12 years, 3 months agoJust finished the Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, inspired by the movie and the new series of the BBC production coming out next month. It is spectacularly well written and it’s amusing to understand all the little nuances that the movies portray.
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Autostraddle Summer Book Club 2011 12 years, 3 months ago@internrachel @julia1
I just finished “Slammerkin” (384 pages), the second book in a row I’ve read by Emma Donoghue (the first being “Room”). Her prose is terrific and her themes are dark and I’m going to need to read something more lighthearted after this. “Slammerkin” tells the story of a teenage prostitute in 18th-century England for two years…[Read more] -
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