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Old 07-23-2011, 10:08 AM   #10216
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I did read the first one a while back, and enjoyed it. But there were so many other books on my TBR list that I still haven't gotten to book 2.

Right now I'm reading "Dave Barry Does Japan." In a word... hilarious! Living here for so long I take all these things for granted. But reading about them as seen through the eyes of someone just visiting for the first time...well, suffice it to say that this is one really bizarre place! I mean, what's so odd about bowing to someone over the phone?


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I saw that advertised just yesterday (Kobo, maybe). He is funny.
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Old 07-23-2011, 10:24 AM   #10217
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Don't be too surprised to find out that you may have significantly less active brain cells left after finishing Demonic. Coulter is a certifiable wacko. The problem is that she thinks she's being serious and she thinks she's actually correct and knows what's best for America. She's as bad for America as Baynor.
It sounds like you might enjoy discussing it with him in P&R. (Hint, hint.)
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Old 07-23-2011, 10:29 AM   #10218
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Right now I'm reading "Dave Barry Does Japan." In a word... hilarious! Living here for so long I take all these things for granted. But reading about them as seen through the eyes of someone just visiting for the first time...well, suffice it to say that this is one really bizarre place! I mean, what's so odd about bowing to someone over the phone?
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I saw that advertised just yesterday (Kobo, maybe). He is funny.
The really amazing thing is is that he's able to be so accurate about what he is describing, and still be so incredibly funny! I'm 3/4 through the book and have experience almost everything he talks about. When I tried to relate these episodes to friends and family they couldn't internalize just how bizarre it is. Dave Barry is able to make it come alive!


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Old 07-23-2011, 11:10 AM   #10219
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I did read the first one a while back, and enjoyed it. But there were so many other books on my TBR list that I still haven't gotten to book 2.

Right now I'm reading "Dave Barry Does Japan." In a word... hilarious! Living here for so long I take all these things for granted. But reading about them as seen through the eyes of someone just visiting for the first time...well, suffice it to say that this is one really bizarre place! I mean, what's so odd about bowing to someone over the phone?


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Just downloaded a sample for my TBR list. Thanks for that. It's been quite a while since I read any of his stuff.
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Old 07-23-2011, 11:12 AM   #10220
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Yeah he's a funny guy even if he does live in FL.
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Old 07-23-2011, 11:55 AM   #10221
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Glad to find out that Dave Berry and I have something in common. He learned how to say BEER for his trip to Japan and I learned how to say BEER for a trip to Germany. Cheers!
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Old 07-23-2011, 11:57 AM   #10222
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Glad to find out that Dave Berry and I have something in common. He learned how to say BEER for his trip to Japan and I learned how to say BEER for a trip to Germany. Cheers!
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Old 07-23-2011, 12:14 PM   #10223
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It's cool action and humorous talking, I like those

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Old 07-23-2011, 02:04 PM   #10224
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It sounds like you might enjoy discussing it with him in P&R. (Hint, hint.)
Not really. Just pointing out how demonic Coulter and her cronies are.
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Old 07-23-2011, 05:00 PM   #10225
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I've discovered a marvelous new side to an author I've known only as a writer of WW II spy novels. Manning Coles, who wrote a series of Tommy Hambledon spy novels in the 1940's & 1950's, also wrote ghost stories! Madcap, Wodehousian ghost stories, in which 2 members of the Latimer family are allowed to "return" (along with their claret-drinking pet monkey Ulysses) whenever a living family member is threatened. Sparkling dialogue, improbable plots, and lots of comedy!

Unfortunately they are only available AFAIK as pbooks published by Rue Morgue press.

I'm currently reading "Come and Go."
On this recommendation, I got Happy Returns from the library, mistakenly thinking it was the first of the three; it's the second. I took it with me to lunch today anyway to see if I liked the writing, which I did quite a lot! I'm going to put it aside, and get the first one Brief Candles on Monday, read that one for the backstory, and then return to this one. Come and Go is the third (final) story.
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Old 07-23-2011, 10:37 PM   #10226
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Right now I'm reading "Dave Barry Does Japan." In a word... hilarious! Living here for so long I take all these things for granted. But reading about them as seen through the eyes of someone just visiting for the first time...well, suffice it to say that this is one really bizarre place! I mean, what's so odd about bowing to someone over the phone?


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No funnier than having to put your specs on so you can hear people on the phone

I've visited Japan a couple of times and it took me a couple of weeks after I got home each time to stop bowing to people!
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Old 07-24-2011, 04:01 AM   #10227
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A poor issue for me. The best were "A Democracy of Trolls", "OpenClose", "The Drive-in Puerto Rico" and "On the City of Dead Night". The rest I just didn't really like - too much 'interesting' literary prose, not enough drive and plot.

Next: F&SF Magazine, December 2002 by Spilogate Authors

But let's give the last issue of 2002 a go as well.
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Old 07-24-2011, 10:23 AM   #10228
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Right now I'm reading "Dave Barry Does Japan." In a word... hilarious! Living here for so long I take all these things for granted. But reading about them as seen through the eyes of someone just visiting for the first time...well, suffice it to say that this is one really bizarre place! I mean, what's so odd about bowing to someone over the phone?


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Old 07-24-2011, 10:32 AM   #10229
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Jules Verne - A Journey to the Center of the Earth
Jane Austen - Pride and Prejudice (I might never finish this one)
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Old 07-24-2011, 06:19 PM   #10230
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Not finish Pride and Prejudice? Isn't that some sort of sacrilege?
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