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Old 03-09-2017, 07:55 AM   #25516
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I'm currently reading/listening to Queen Lucia by E. F. Benson. I started reading it and would have stopped had I not found a rather good audiobook version. The text is rather dry and reading it is rather dull. It takes a rather good reader to overcome this.
I guess one has to have a taste for that sort of humor. I think the Lucia books are delightful and they all have literal LOL moments. I'm not going to discuss it here in advance of the book club discussion, but I would hate for people to be put off trying it when it's free, people. I know there are many Lucia fans here; maybe some will swing by the discussion.
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Old 03-09-2017, 08:24 AM   #25517
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The text is rather dry and reading it is rather dull. It takes a rather good reader to overcome this.
And you don't meet your own requirements?
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Old 03-09-2017, 09:37 AM   #25518
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I tried reading this last year, but got bogged down during their interminable stay off the California coast gathering cow hides.
That's where I am now. I like it, California when it was still part of Mexico. A lot of scope for the imagination, as Anne Shirley would have it. It's the shipboard parts where I have to let some of it wash over me. After O'Brian, I'm familiar with the terms, but I don't necessarily know exactly what they all mean.

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This was one of my favourite books from my teens, discovered as I was looking for something to read after I'd devoured the Hornblower books. (And LONG before O'Brian was writing. Even before Alexander Kent was available in the US.) I haven't re-read it recently, but might be worth considering.
Hornblower is on my list; I'd be likelier to get to him sooner if my libraries had him. Or I could head for the border, since Forester hit PD in Canada this year.
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Old 03-09-2017, 11:48 AM   #25519
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Firstly, it was a fantasy, secondly, I didn't like it, period.
You say the fantasy part as if it were a surprise. The main character being a wizard's apprentice would seem to make the genre pretty obvious to me, just from the most basic description...
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Old 03-09-2017, 02:10 PM   #25520
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I'm currently reading/listening to Queen Lucia by E. F. Benson. I started reading it and would have stopped had I not found a rather good audiobook version. The text is rather dry and reading it is rather dull. It takes a rather good reader to overcome this.
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I guess one has to have a taste for that sort of humor. I think the Lucia books are delightful and they all have literal LOL moments. I'm not going to discuss it here in advance of the book club discussion, but I would hate for people to be put off trying it when it's free, people. I know there are many Lucia fans here; maybe some will swing by the discussion.
I've just read the first two chapters so far, but it strikes me a something that would make for a fine British sitcom; something along the lines of Keeping Up Appearances.
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Old 03-09-2017, 02:29 PM   #25521
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Recently finished The Stars are Legion by Kameron Hurley. A very unusual space opera with a strong social message and filled with badass females [and only females].
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Old 03-09-2017, 02:38 PM   #25522
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I've just read the first two chapters so far, but it strikes me a something that would make for a fine British sitcom; something along the lines of Keeping Up Appearances.
Not the same thing, but there have been two British mini-series based on some of the later books. I've seen the one from the 80s, but I don't think the one from a few years ago was ever released here.
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Old 03-09-2017, 02:39 PM   #25523
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Old 03-09-2017, 03:05 PM   #25524
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...It's the shipboard parts where I have to let some of it wash over me...
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Old 03-09-2017, 08:34 PM   #25525
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Not the same thing, but there have been two British mini-series based on some of the later books. I've seen the one from the 80s, but I don't think the one from a few years ago was ever released here.
And now I have a new mission in life: track down those two series and see if are available for streaming.
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Old 03-09-2017, 09:08 PM   #25526
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Old 03-10-2017, 01:38 AM   #25527
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You say the fantasy part as if it were a surprise. The main character being a wizard's apprentice would seem to make the genre pretty obvious to me, just from the most basic description...
That was not unexpected. I'm not much of a fantasy fan, and would rarely read this genre. I read this on the reco of a friend, but could not properly digest it, hence the rant.
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Recently finished The Stars are Legion by Kameron Hurley. A very unusual space opera with a strong social message and filled with badass females [and only females].
Sounds like something right up my alley. Placing a hold at my library for it.

I am one third of the way through Hemingway Didn't Say That: The Truth Behind Familiar Quotations by Garson O'Toole. He is the guy who runs the Quote Investigator website, and these are quotes he's investigated on said site. Nice thing is that he provides all the references with each entry.
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Old 03-10-2017, 12:36 PM   #25529
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Sounds like something right up my alley. Placing a hold at my library for it.
I really enjoyed it. Not for the squeamish though, but loved how layered the whole thing is. Lots to unpack, but that would be rather spoilerish.
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