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Reading The Book of Tobit, definitely should have made it into the Bible, it's far better written and much more interesting than most of what's in there. :laughing:

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Originally Posted by bob. (Post 1182419)

as far as the Millennium books go....i think they are quite good for what they are.....i do think the author very much goes off on Swedish economics and sociopolitical problems....and gets a bit winded at times....but the story and plot is there and really shines....the 1st book was good, the second actually floored me.....as Paloma said...it really gets going....and even better it leaves a real sour taste in your mouth that only has one cure....the 3rd book....which i'm up to chapter four as of now but am finding to be quite interesting

edit.....god damn the Swedish LOVE coffee....i swear every 6 sentences someone is getting another coffee :)

who the **** is Paloma?

:)

i am obviously not up on current events

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I've finished the 1st book, it's great so far. Unfortunately I don't think it has been translated so unless you read Polish, it might be a challenge ;)
The story takes place in a world similar, yet significantly different from ours. North of Europe has never been Christianized and the last 1000 or so years were full of crusades and religious wars, as Scandinavian countries never abandoned their beliefs, if anything they consolidated them under Christian pressure.
Now it's 1940 and one Jeremy Baldwin, a British journalist sent by the London Times to Sudan to write about a religious uprising of muslims against the British that is taking place there. While at it, he discovers traces of a much bigger plot, one that takes him (so far) to some Scandinavian colonies, the UK and Ireland. Book one ends just days before the **** hits the fan, I can't really tell how it will end ;) Especially since the plot twists really surprised me.
All in all I was expecting something rather silly but pleasant, got a legitimate novel that is both entertaining and often surprising.

Finished Galactic pot-healer. Just totally lost track of wtf was going on. Something about a gigantic slime creature recruiting a loada specialista to help sort out some **** on a planet he'd approriated from a dead cathedral that he had to fight the ghost of which led the titular pot-healer to a new career path.
Starting to read Motty:40 yrs. in the commentary box now. Before going bak into another P.K.Dick later on in the week.

Great Expectations which, ironically, has not lived up to my expecations. It's just blah.....Nevertheless, I've got Emma by Jane Austen next in line to read.

Currently reading We by Yevgeny Zamyatin and The Murder Exchange by Simon Kernick.

After a couple of dud PKdick novels I've started Our friends from Frolix 8 and its shaping up to be a ****in cracker.

^ I'm reading Scanner Darkly as we speak! I particularly liked this bit, as I'm from Anaheim.

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In Southern California it didn't make any difference anyhow where you went; there was always the same McDonaldburger place over and over, like a circular strip that turned past you as you pretended to go somewhere. And when finally you got hungry and went to the McDonaldburger place and bought a McDonald's hamburger, it was the one they sold you last time and the time before that and so forth, back to before you were born, and in addition bad people -- liars -- said it was made out of turkey gizzards anyhow.

They had by now, according to their sign, sold the same original burger fifty billion times. He wondered if it was to the same person. Life in Anaheim, California, was a commercial for itself, endlessly replayed. Nothing changed; it just spread out farther and farther in the form of neon ooze. What there was always more of had been congealed into permanence long ago, as if the automatic factory that cranked out these objects had jammed in the on position. How the land became plastic, he thought, remembering the fairy tale "How the Sea Became Salt." Someday, he thought, it'll be mandatory that we all sell the McDonald's hamburger as well as buy it; we'll sell it back and forth to each other forever from our living rooms. That way we won't even have to go outside.