August 2021 Reading Discussion

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Just picked up The Preserve by Ariel S. Winter, a sci-fi mystery. Evidently, it's the author's first foray into sci-fi.
 
Margaret Craven "I Heard the Owl Call My Name"

A young priest is sent to the parish of Kingcome on the coast of British Columbia where he lives among the Tsawataineuk.
Last read @thirty years ago. I loved it then and still love it now. To my surprise the ending even made me cry.
The book spent a week or two at Number One on the New York Times Best Seller List in the 1970s and I can understand why. However, although I really enjoyed this re-read, I can appreciate now that it's very much a novel and does not necessarily reflect the wider context of life in that settlement. I'd be very interested to know what the Kwakwaka'wakw people thought of the book when it came out, and what they think of it now.
 
Guttersnipe said:
Are they related?
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No idea
I read the preserve earlier this month, there are some similarities in as much as a lot of humanity has died off decades ago in a plague and robots fill their places.

However I can't (so far) see a link
 
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Danny McG said:
No idea
I read the preserve earlier this month, there are some similarities in as much as a lot of humanity has died off decades ago in a plague and robots fill their places.

However I can't (so far) see a link
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separate novels. no link apparently
 
Ian Fortytwo said:
I started reading The Sirens of Titan, by Kurt Vonnegut. After one hundred pages I was struggling to understand what the story was meant to be about. The plot was utter garbage, it wasn't even a smooth read. Has this happened to others.
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smooth reading and plots aren’t really Vonnegut’s thing. His books tend towards absurdist stream of consciousness. I think of him like Douglas Adams where if you’re on board with their sense of humor and intrigued by their philosophies, there’s much to enjoy. If not, it’s probably self indulgent gibberish.

I like Vonnegut, not so much Adams.
 
Re-read of Last Call by Tim Powers.

It appears to be the first in a trilogy - I didn't know that
 
Danny McG said:
Re-read of Last Call by Tim Powers.

It appears to be the first in a trilogy - I didn't know that
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It's an unusual trilogy, the second book has very little to do with the first but the third book combines the plotlines from the first two books.
 
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