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Originally Posted by khalleron
Ah, but you can't fully appreciate "To Say Nothing of the Dog" unless you've read Wodehouse AND "Three Men in a Boat."
I can't really see how you could appreciate it at all, myself.
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I'm a fiction bigot - I only read science fiction and fantasy. Why - mostly because I had so much UNMITIGATED CRAP rammed down my throat by the Literature Nazis the ran the English department in my middle/high school that I just don't give a flying rotten banana what anyone else thinks when it comes to reading fiction.
Now, going back to the topic - the Connie Willis book was a little slow in spots and I barely got through those parts. As near as I can tell from discussing it with the members of the SF book group that read it, the slow parts were designed to imitate the writing style of the TMIAB era. Clearly then, trying to read an entire novel written in that style would not have worked. However, I was glad that I made it through the Willis book and overall found it be quite enjoyable.
P.S. Did read some good stuff in school too - The Bard rocks.