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Feb 07 06 Feb 2007 at 05:32PM
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Well, I read Pratchett's "Guards!!! Guards!!!" to start off February.  Apparently this is the first in the night watch series, it cleared up a lot of things that I didn't know when I was reading the other books.  A quick and entertaing read.

I'm about 450 pages into Gravity's Rainbow.  It's still slow going.  I'm catching a lot more Byron references this time though.  It's probably a book you need to read 4 or 5 times before you start to have a complete picture of what Pynchon was getting at.  Hopefully I can finish it this month.

12 Feb 2007 at 05:12PM
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Well, I read "Let's All Kill Constance" this weekend.  I've been giving Bradbury a chance because of his reputation and because of some stories I thought I remembered reading as a kid that I'm trying to find again, but so far I'm 0 for 2 with his stuff.  I thought the writing was good, and there were a lot of amusing drinking euphemisms, but the story didn't do anything for me.
More procrastination... 17 Feb 2007 at 05:52AM
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I'm really scraping the bottom of the barrel here.  I read "The Arrival" the other day.  It's the first in a series of books that apparently are a prequel to a television series.  The next one is "The First Protector", which I guess I'll read if I'm desperate again in the future, which I probably will be.  The writing is mediocre but at least there was a story.
17 Feb 2007 at 05:54AM
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I re-read Doorways in the Sand today.  I've really grown to hate Zelazny but this is an excellent book, possibly better the second time.  Unlike much of sci-fi, it's a plotline I don't think I've seen before.
26 Feb 2007 at 04:56AM
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I finished re-reading Gravity's Rainbow on Friday.  I'm not sure I have enough energy left to comment on it.  It was worth the effort and I got more out of it this time, so that's good.  Now I have no excuses, other than 3 books recently arrived from the library, for not reading his new book.  Or something.
26 Feb 2007 at 03:37PM
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I read "Riding with Rilke" on Sunday. I couldn't resist it at the library since it was motorcycle related and Rilke had made a few appearances in Gravity's Rainbow. The parts about riding were actually pretty bad, but the other parts were interesting.
28 Feb 2007 at 09:12PM
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Finished Pratchett's "Interesting Times" today. Amusing as usual and Pratchett continues to impress me with the quality of his writing.