[lbo-talk] vacating; therefore, in need of fiction

Bill Bartlett billbartlett at aapt.net.au
Sun Aug 23 00:15:46 PDT 2009


At 1:50 AM -0500 23/8/09, Jeffrey Fisher wrote:


>Sticking
>with SF, you might try Samuel Delany, if you've not read him
>(especially *Stars
>in my Pocket like Grains of Sand

No. don't. Tedious, tendentious, book. Reading it is like trying to swim in quicksand. I imagine it being used as part of the interrogation process at Guantonamo Bay. If you were sentenced to 10 years jail in maximum security, with nothing to read but that book or the health warnings on a cigarette pack, choose the cigarette pack.

Bill Bartlett Bracknell Tas



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