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Old 03-28-2017, 08:42 PM   #25636
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That depends on the story. I did not find anything wrong with HHGTTG in terms of character sex.
That's kind of like a white guy saying he doesn't see the problem with whitewashing in Hollywood - of course you don't, because you're not the one being erased or tokenized.
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Old 03-29-2017, 02:57 AM   #25637
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Old 03-29-2017, 03:22 PM   #25638
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Finished The Steam Pig by the late South African expat UK-immigrant author James McClure, which is 1st in his Kramer & Zondi series starring cops in South Africa, and an award-winner back when it was published in 1971. This is currently one of Soho's $1.99 introductory specials and I started reading to see if I wanted to pick up the rest which are slightly higher price on discount sale, and I probably will, though some of it will be out of sheer morbid curiosity.

This actually does have a twisty, convoluted plot with a well-executed investigation in it and a strong sense of place, which makes full use of complicating elements that would probably only be possible in apartheid-era South Africa (or possibly the US Deep South in certain time periods). It's easy to see why it won the 1971 Gold Dagger Award.

It's also basically a time capsule of some rather glaringly retro racism (and sexism) both conscious due to the setting and I suspect unconscious due to common social attitudes of the time, contrasted with an attempt to present the Bantu sergeant Zondi as a capable, intelligent, and resourceful man who is a full partner in the investigations who also happens to be unfairly treated as a mindless dirty work-handling servant by pretty much every white around him (as are all the other black characters), even occasionally by his own investigative partner.

Anyway, this series apparently ran from the 1970s to the 1990s, and I'm curious as to how (or if) it changed in response to the changing times, and the author's obituary over at the Grauniad says that one of the books was included on The Times' list of 100 best crime novels of the century, and the lot of them are on sale, so I might as well get them and find out.
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Old 03-29-2017, 09:23 PM   #25639
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Finished Eats, Shoots & Leaves, which was enjoyable in a non-fiction kind of way, but now I am starting I Did NOT Give That Spider Superhuman Intelligence! by Richard Roberts, a sort of prequel to the Don't Tell My Parents... superhero books which are such a delight for me to read.

I have some travel in my future: a trip out to WV for work, then a mini-vacation followed by a trip for a job interview: I may just manage to get caught up on my reading.
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Old 03-30-2017, 12:28 AM   #25640
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As a writer, I enjoyed Eats, Shoots & Leaves a lot. I was glad to not see myself in any of the bad examples.
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Old 03-30-2017, 04:35 AM   #25641
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Next up: Rats and Gargoyles by Mary Gentle.
Abandoned. I'm around 60% through and I just don't want to read it. Just not for me.

Next up: Satan in St Mary's by Paul Doherty. First novel in a recent omnibus purchase.
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Old 03-30-2017, 05:42 AM   #25642
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... which encourages me to read the third book of the series, The Strangest Thing.
Finished The Strangest Thing by Bill Thompson. The plot was interesting enough, suitable for an archaeological thriller interwoven with ancient aliens conspiracy theory. Worth three stars rating on my scale.

Now I'll go for the last book in the Brian Sadler series, The Bones in the Pit, supposedly another conspiracy mystery from the Knights Templar period.
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Old 03-30-2017, 11:18 AM   #25643
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As a writer, I enjoyed Eats, Shoots & Leaves a lot. I was glad to not see myself in any of the bad examples.
I know, right? I do have a proclivity for ellipses, but I am now inspired to use colons more.
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Old 03-30-2017, 02:53 PM   #25644
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Finished Random Violence by Jassy Mackenzie, 1st in her Jade de Jong series starring a P.I. newly-returned to South Africa for a purpose, years after her police officer father's death. Another one of Soho's sale series I'm considering and a modern contrast to the vintage McClure I read just prior. It's interesting to see how much (and how little) has changed in the intervening decades. I'll probably end up getting both series for balance.

This particular story has a lot going on in it and is rather convoluted—possibly overpacked for a first entry—trying to have Jade deal with the old issues which were why she left South Africa, as well as a new investigative case, and some romantic relationship drama on top of that. And there was a tendency towards doing dramatic fake outs with last minute saves, both physically and emotionally. And it was pretty violent (but then, that was right there in the title). But the plotting and whodunnit made sense (and I liked that the P.I. had to do persistent legwork to gather and figure out all the clues; sometimes lesser crime thrillers tend to skimp on that and go straight to intuitive leaps or fortuitous evidence discoveries) and it wrapped up the loose ends by the end and hopefully it's more straightforward from here on.
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Old 03-30-2017, 03:39 PM   #25645
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I haven't read anything by Mary Roach before but I just started Grunt and am really enjoying it. Although I probably should have waited till after lunch.
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Old 03-30-2017, 05:02 PM   #25646
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I'm finally getting around to John Scalzi's The Human Division, fifth in his "Old Man's War" series. My immediate first impression was disappointment that the publisher had chosen to make Tiny Text the default; there is absolutely no good reason to make the baseline text size in an ebook 0.83em. Luckily, a few minutes with Calibre fixed that.
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Old 03-30-2017, 07:09 PM   #25647
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I'm finally getting around to John Scalzi's The Human Division, fifth in his "Old Man's War" series. My immediate first impression was disappointment that the publisher had chosen to make Tiny Text the default; there is absolutely no good reason to make the baseline text size in an ebook 0.83em. Luckily, a few minutes with Calibre fixed that.
It just shows a lack of knowing how to properly create an eBook.
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Old 03-31-2017, 03:30 AM   #25648
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It just shows a lack of knowing how to properly create an eBook.
I'm pretty sure it's more a sign of using the same profile for print and ebook, which is understandable if inconvenient (for me). I opened the original ebook, found fat margins and tiny text, and said, "nope, that's gotta GO." The margins may make sense for a printed page, where one doesn't want edge-to-edge text vanishing into the spine's glue, but they're wholly unnecessary in an ebook.
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Abandoned. I'm around 60% through and I just don't want to read it. Just not for me.

Next up: Satan in St Mary's by Paul Doherty. First novel in a recent omnibus purchase.
Just before starting this, I read The Scholast in the Low Waters Kingdom by Max Gladstone, a bit of free original fiction at Tor.com.
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