06-02-2017, 07:31 AM | #25921 | |
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An excellent historical mystery. Although I would have appreciated a note about which characters were historical and which were made up. Next up: The Magic Casement by Dave Duncan. Fortuitously, the first in one of his fantasy series. I got them they were on special offer last year. Looking like a slightly above average fantasy at present. Mediaeval to renaissance technology and some magic. |
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06-02-2017, 10:10 AM | #25922 | |
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06-02-2017, 10:58 AM | #25923 | |
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06-02-2017, 02:55 PM | #25924 |
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Only in that the both describe events during the Black Death.
The Doomsday Book is SF with (IMO) weak characterisation and plotting. A Plague on Both Your Houses is a historical mystery, with a (possibly overly complicated) plot and good characters. I think it's rather better in its depiction of the Black Death. I much preferred this one to the Connie Willis book. |
06-02-2017, 03:02 PM | #25925 |
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Finished Intruder. Now working on All the Birds in the Sky by Charlie Jane Anders.
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06-02-2017, 03:08 PM | #25926 | |
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06-02-2017, 04:34 PM | #25927 |
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06-02-2017, 05:17 PM | #25928 | |
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A Plague on Both Your Houses is one I've never read so I cannot comment on it. |
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06-02-2017, 05:29 PM | #25929 | |
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I am loving the book and 99% of the recipes sound fabulous. I always pictured a double boiler as a fancy cooking pot. Let me state right here and for the record, "my thinking was W R O N G." |
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06-03-2017, 02:31 AM | #25931 |
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I don't want to get into a long discussion of the book here (there's a bookclub thread for the book if anyone's interested in a variety of opinions)
But I'd like to note that I said the characterisation was weak, not the characters. I didn't believe that the characters as depicted would act in the way depicted. |
06-05-2017, 07:35 AM | #25932 | |
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06-05-2017, 08:23 AM | #25933 | |
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Just finished "The Road to Damascus", by John Ringo and Linda Evans. I bought this in 2004 from Baen. I read it at the time and enjoyed it. On a re-read it has to be one of my all-time favourite SF novels.
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06-05-2017, 11:46 AM | #25935 | |
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