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from the Never too Late to Read Classics group.
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Brian E wrote: "The hanging laundry is why I didn't choose the NYRB edition. The Vet's Daughter by Barbara Comyns . I thought its cover might prompt a few odd looks from fellow customers in the several coffeeshops I like to read at or from fellow patients at the ever more frequently occurring location of doctor's reception rooms."Lol, I don't think people look up from their cell phones to notice somebody looking at one of those paper phones.
But this is really short so I'm just planning on reading it when I'm off anyway.
The Constant Nymph, that's a cover that gets you interested.
I usually start the month with the group reads but I started reading The Savage Tales of Solomon Kane for Cimmerian September.
I just have the one with the laundry on the cover.What is Virago? Just a publisher?
Travel to other planets is a reality, and with overpopulation stretching the resources of Earth, the necessity to find habitable worlds is growing ever more urgent. With no time to wait years for communication between slower-than-light spaceships and home, the Long Range Foundation explores an unlikely solution--human telepathy.Identical twins Tom and Pat are enlisted to be the human radios that will keep the ships in contact with Earth. The only problem is that one of them has to stay behind, and that one will grow old while the other explores the depths of space.
Yeah, it looks really interesting. I'll start pretty soon.
I finally finished the series. Next I may read the animated series.
The Vet’s Daughter combines shocking realism with a visionary edge. The vet lives with his bedridden wife and shy daughter Alice in a sinister London suburb. He works constantly, captive to a strange private fury, and treats his family with brutality and contempt. After his wife’s death, the vet takes up with a crass, needling woman who tries to refashion Alice in her own image. And yet as Alice retreats ever deeper into a dream world, she discovers an extraordinary secret power of her own.Harrowing and haunting, like an unexpected cross between Flannery O’Connor and Stephen King, The Vet’s Daughter is a story of outraged innocence that culminates in a scene of appalling triumph.
The city is winched along tracks through a devastated land full of hostile tribes. Rails must be freshly laid ahead of the city and carefully removed in its wake. Rivers and mountains present nearly insurmountable challenges to the ingenuity of the city's engineers. But if the city does not move, it will fall farther and farther behind the optimum and into the crushing gravitational field that has transformed life on Earth. The only alternative to progress is death. The secret directorate that governs the city makes sure that its inhabitants know nothing of this. Raised in common in creches, nurtured on synthetic food, prevented above all from venturing outside the closed circuit of the city, they're carefully sheltered from the dire necessities that have come to define human existence. Yet the city is in crisis. People are growing restive. The population is dwindling. The rulers know that, for all their efforts, slowly but surely the city is slipping ever farther behind the optimum. Helward Mann is a member of the city's elite. Better than anyone, he knows how tenuous is the city's continued existence. But the world he's about to discover is infinitely stranger than the strange world he believes he knows so well.
Rosemarie wrote: "This is a survival book, nominally science fiction. It's interesting to see how the different characters work together- or don't work together.
I enjoyed it, but not as much as some of the other books we've read this year."
I see your point but I like a survival story too so I'm really enjoying it.
I'm halfway through and my theory:
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Some great quotes in here:
"I think you are a romantic. Now this is a very romantic age, so there is no room for romantics in it, it calls for practical men."
"Life, all life has the twin drives to survive and to reproduce. intelligence is an aimless byproduct except as it serves these basic drives."
"Man is not a rational animal, he is a rationalizing animal."
And the one I want to use all the time --"were you born that stupid? Or did you have ti study?"
Yes, I finished it and it was great. The author makes the comparison between werewolves and how savage humans can be. It probably would have been better if I knew anything about French history.Yeah, reading several wolf books could get confusing. I've read a couple of books by Robert McCammon and loved them. I've heard everything he writes is great.
Well I'm glad you enjoyed it somewhat. I'll read it soon.
I'm halfway through and really enjoying it.
I just started this. It's from 1933, more modern than I thought.
The Library of Babel really fascinated me. Somebody calculated that to contain every combination this thing would have to be light years across.
The final exam for Dr. Matson's Advanced Survival class was meant to be just that: only a test. But something has gone terribly wrong...and now Rod Walker and his fellow students are stranded somewhere unknown in the universe, beyond contact with Earth, at the other end of a tunnel in the sky. Stripped of all comforts, hoping for a passage home that may never appear, the castaways must band together or perish. For Rod and his fellow survivors, this is one test where failure is not an option....
