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Lobolover said:
Finally got my copy of The Obscene Bird of Night.
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Interesting. Obscene Bird of Night by Jose Donso is a very strange novel. I regard it as a high watermark of the magic realist boom in Latin America during the 1960s and 70s but you could just as easily argue that it reads like an impenetrable pile of sch**it to be blunt...but that's partly the point; I won't give away the true nature of the narrator otherwise it would contain spoilers. It's one of those books you need to read more than once to better understand it.

I will be interested to read your observations on this.
 
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J-Sun said:
Well, the combination but never mind - I have a bad habit of going a little way for a little joke that takes a lot to explain and that's never good. ;)
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Ah. For what it's worth I already read book one through the library, hence ordering two and three. If the combination relates to Sales book with the Foundation ones, I'll just see if I can figure out your joke after I read it.:p
 
Southern Geologist said:
Ah. For what it's worth I already read book one through the library, hence ordering two and three. If the combination relates to Sales book with the Foundation ones, I'll just see if I can figure out your joke after I read it.:p
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No, it's nothing internal. It's just that Sales does not have a proper respect for the Good Doctor, to put it mildly.

Sorry folks - do continue with your thread. :)
 
J-Sun: I always felt that way when I would buy books by Moorcock and Heinlein together... I always half-expected the bag to spontaneously combust on my way home....:p
 
Bick said:
Did they not see eye to eye either? What other SF writer bitchiness do i need to know about? :)
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Oh, Moorcock -- and, for that matter, most of the other writers of the New Wave -- generally found themselves completely at odds with many of the positions expressed in Heinlein's fiction. As for other examples of this... well, as far back as the 1960s, such was simply being called the usual tempest in our teapot of a genre.....
 
I found a couple of SF Masterwork editions I don't have:

"The Demolished Man" - Alfred Bester
"Jem" - Frederik Pohl
 
Had to share this -- the syllabus for a literature course that W. H. Auden taught at the University of Michigan.

http://ayjay.tumblr.com/post/32688676580/w-h-auden-taught-at-the-university-of-michigan

In these theory-ridden days, I imagine many younger English PhDs and professors haven't read these things ... let alone undergrads.

How about y'all? See anything there you haven't read but -- "Oh yeah! I should read that!"

I must at least give The Education of Henry Adams a try, even if I don't end up reading all of it. It's one of those books that I see mentioned here and there, again and again, but to which I've never applied myself.

But what a list!
 
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