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Wandering around in the bookstore. I finally get to the "New in Fiction" section. My eyes fall on this book. I thought of Toger. I figured that any book with this statement on the front cover would be right up her alley: "A Novel of Vampires, Werewolves, and Dirigibles) I love the cover.
Changeless by Gail Carriger.
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What an... odd book! I'm not sure what to make of the "paranormal romance" tag that Amazon's provided. I'll have to check the book in person (perhaps the local fantasy/sci fi bookshop around the corner has it). Thanks Spike!
Currently, I'm reading Max Brooks' World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War. It's very good! It's a serious AAR of the Zombie Apocalypse.
Next up is Joe Abercrombie's Before They are Hanged (book 2 of the First Law triology) What's really interesting is that the first of the series has the same name as a certain Sakey's book!
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What's AAR? My best guess would be alternative reality something or another.
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After Action Report. The Zombie War is at an end, so it's told from the view of survivors' accounts of the initial outbreak; the panic; the blame (who knew what when), etc.
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I have considered picking up World War Z for a long time; it looks amazing.
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WWZ is really a brilliant book, xtal. I mean it, it's not just a cool, slightly amusing adventurey sort of thing, it's an actual honest to god political commentary. It's about people and how they tend to be rational individually but stupid in groups. It satirizes the government (of the time it was written) excellently. Totally worth your money or a visit to the library.
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Steerpike said:
It's about people and how they tend to be rational individually but stupid in groups.
I had the thought myself as I read yet one more story about the Tea Party-ers. Sheep, but worse than that, sheep with $$ and the vote. (With all apologies to real sheep, who aren't as dumb as they look.)
If we really want to get rid of much of the Stupid in our society we need to start teaching logic and critical thinking at a very early age. In school, geared toward the age of the students, from pre-school forward, and yep, paid for with our tax $$$.
It's always fun to hijack a thread as long as it's unintentional and flows logically or train-of-thought from the original topic. But I think it is even more fun to hijack one's own thread. But then I don't guess there's much of a leap from Zombies to Tea Party-ers, is there?
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Toger said:
After Action Report. The Zombie War is at an end, so it's told from the view of survivors' accounts of the initial outbreak; the panic; the blame (who knew what when), etc.
I see. That's exactly what the real-world military types do after the fact. Too bad they rarely take what they've learned and used it for prevention/avoidance purposes instead of just Monday morning quarterbacking.
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