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Dr No by Percival Everett is a pretty fun riff on the James Bond thing.
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Black Wings Has My Angel (great title!) by Elliott Chaze is a solid crime/noir story.
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In Jeff VanderMeer’s Absolution, Old Jim is such an excellent character. A real can opener for the whole series.
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All the post-modern philosophers you love to hate (or hate to love?) show up in this thriller that’s clearly inspired by Foucault’s Pendulum.
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What’s with all the degen spam, huh? (Am I setting myself up for a world of hurt by asking this? lol)
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uwu~ paperclypse-chan has wead so many books, she fowgot she wead them aww! maybe it's time to touch gwass, baka! >.< OK, fair! LOL Create a Waifu based off your FC profile with WaifuCast!
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Reminds me a little of Wendell Berry’s Jayber Crow. So far, I prefer Berry as a writer to Robinson, but we’ll see
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The most Gertrude Stein-y book I’ve read in a VERY long time
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“Oh yeah, they call that Grognard’s Folly. It’s a megadungeon with 777 floors all filled with death traps and creepy beasties. No one wants it in their backyard. Go figure.”
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Want to read a hard-to-find book? Your public library’s interlibrary loan service is your friend! My latest:
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Spoonfed nostalgia all day long for aeons, the giant baby cried, pooped his diaper, and swallowed the sun. It was a dark day.
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That’s so shmebular, said the “hip”, “young” “teen”.
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“Dagnabbit, I said dagnabbit again!” croaked the bullfrog named ‘Oyster Fred’ OMcHoulihandelbergconcerto.
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“I think I broke my elbow,” said the clam, “while doing a sashay across the veranda to the gazebo on top of a slow-rolling tortoise.”
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The car drove. Multiply by gazillion. The end.
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The three witches glared at the bubbling stew spinning in the baleful light of the microwave. “By the pricking of my thumbs, this isn’t nearly as satisfying.”
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“Houston, heaven is high and the emperor is far away,” the astronaut radioed from the International Space Station.
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“There’s gold in them thar hills,” muttered the old (22)49er as she chewed her teeth and leered at the old massive piles in the garbage dump.
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“You know, I never thought I’d see the day,” said Muriel Samchez-Houndstūth, on looking out upon Tuesday, April 30, the year 3000785.
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BING-bong-BINGLE-{gurgle}-bOng! “We’ve got a leak!” Detective-Inspector Doorbellproblemsolverman proclaimed.
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