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Old 11-05-2017, 03:36 AM   #26551
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And now: The Collapsing Empire by John Scalzi. Just bought, as it's on offer for just £1.19 in the Amazon UK November sale.
Which was fun. Unless you hate books with swearing, in which case this one isn't for you.

But clearly the first volume setting up a series. But the story seems to move along at a fair lick.

Next up: another recent purchase, I am Legend by Richard Matheson.
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Old 11-05-2017, 03:37 AM   #26552
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I'm curious what you think about this book and the author's liberties with history.
I am almost half finished and wondered about the section that takes place in South Carolina -- that there was a network of people helping escaped slaves with education, having employment and particularly the museum that depicts slavery and other history in the U.S.

I have not read much of a factual history of the underground railroad, so I do not know how much is made up. I'd hoped that he researched it.

Has anyone else read Colson Whitehead's The Underground Railroad and would you comment on the question above about liberties taken (or not)?
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Old 11-05-2017, 09:50 AM   #26553
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Since Halloween is coming up, I am finally reading Brom Stoker's Dracula. It is also a book I've had in my to-be-read (TBR) collection for years.

I also decided to quit checking the deals section and focus on the ~150 TBR books I collected over the years. I've bought or picked up freebies to include Biographies, Classics, Sci-Fi, Fantasy, History non-fiction, Historical Fiction, Mysteries, Thrillers, a Western, and a few Christian non-fiction and fiction books.
I really enjoyed Dracula when I finally got around to reading it. If you do like it, you might want to read Carmilla, which is free on Gutenberg. It inspired some of the events in Dracula.
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Old 11-05-2017, 11:23 AM   #26554
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I finished The Mongrel Mage by L. E. Modesitt Jr. This is the 19th book in The Saga of Recluce Series. Very well done and looking forward to number 20, Outcasts of Order, due out June 19, 2018.
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Old 11-05-2017, 12:41 PM   #26555
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Old 11-05-2017, 01:51 PM   #26556
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Has anyone else read Colson Whitehead's The Underground Railroad and would you comment on the question above about liberties taken (or not)?
Think of it as Science Fiction. It did win the Arthur C. Clarke Award for best science fiction novel published in 2016. It's an alternate history where the underground railroad was a literal railroad. So yes, liberties were taken.
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Old 11-05-2017, 02:00 PM   #26557
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Think of it as Science Fiction. It did win the Arthur C. Clarke Award for best science fiction novel published in 2016. It's an alternate history where the underground railroad was a literal railroad. So yes, liberties were taken.
It also won the Pulitzer Prize for Best Novel and the National Book Award for Best Novel.
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Old 11-05-2017, 09:17 PM   #26558
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Think of it as Science Fiction. It did win the Arthur C. Clarke Award for best science fiction novel published in 2016. It's an alternate history where the underground railroad was a literal railroad. So yes, liberties were taken.
Major liberties!

I stopped reading soon after she got on a literal underground railcar pulled by a steam engine. The skyscraper in South Carolina really perturbed my sense of accuracy in historical fiction.

I get what the author was trying to do in taking the last 150 or so years and condensing it into a fictional work loosely based on the underground railroad, but it was just too much for to keep reading.
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Old 11-05-2017, 09:29 PM   #26559
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Major liberties!

I stopped reading soon after she got on a literal underground railcar pulled by a steam engine. The skyscraper in South Carolina really perturbed my sense of accuracy in historical fiction.

I get what the author was trying to do in taking the last 150 or so years and condensing it into a fictional work loosely based on the underground railroad, but it was just too much for to keep reading.
"Major liberties"? It's obviously speculative alt-history. The blurb makes that abundantly clear, as does every review I've ever read of it.
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Old 11-06-2017, 03:03 AM   #26560
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"Major liberties"? It's obviously speculative alt-history. The blurb makes that abundantly clear, as does every review I've ever read of it.
(Whitehead's Underground Railroad)
Thanks for these posts. I thought it very odd about the railroad being literally underground and wasn't even sure if that's what was going on. I am having trouble with my laptop and internet (trouble typing -- lots of delays) or I'd write more about things that were unrealistic. I am going to finish it and then read full reviews.
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Old 11-06-2017, 08:08 AM   #26561
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Next up: another recent purchase, I am Legend by Richard Matheson.
A little dated, but an interesting take on the Vampire Apocalypse. I didn't like the resolution, which wasn't clearly driven by the setup, but by the author's desire for that ending.

Next up: The Forever War by Joe Haldeman. I read this some time ago, and it will be interesting to see how it stands up, especially as this seems to have some extra (original) material that was cut from the original release.
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Old 11-06-2017, 12:31 PM   #26562
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Major liberties!

I stopped reading soon after she got on a literal underground railcar pulled by a steam engine. The skyscraper in South Carolina really perturbed my sense of accuracy in historical fiction.

I get what the author was trying to do in taking the last 150 or so years and condensing it into a fictional work loosely based on the underground railroad, but it was just too much for to keep reading.
That's the very definition of the "alternative history" genre: to play the game of "What if..." with history. The book doesn't claim to be "real history "; it seems slightly unreasonable to criticise it on this grounds.
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Old 11-06-2017, 01:32 PM   #26563
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I started Richard Lloyd Parry's Ghosts of the Tsunami: Death and Life in Japan’s Disaster Zone.
I plan to get back to this tonight. Had a big gap due to us moving a few hundred miles with a very scared little cat. I have felt the lack of reading the last few days and am ready to get back to it.
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Old 11-06-2017, 06:16 PM   #26564
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I've started Charnel House by Graham Masterton. I have a bunch of old Graham Masterton books put out by Tor and Leisure, but I never actually read any of them.

Charnel House starts with a man going to the department of sanitation to complain that his house is breathing. I'm a chapter and a half in and the book is nice and spooky so far. Masterton does a good job of describing his spooky house.

was published in the late '70's and it shows (in a good way, so far). I'm liking the portrayal of late '70's San Francisco.
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