Message from discussion REVIEW: Brasy - Ian McDonald

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From: Pete Tillman <Till...@toast.net>
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Subject: Re: REVIEW: Brasy - Ian McDonald
Date: Sat, 5 Jan 2008 21:09:50 -0800 (PST)
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On Jan 5, 5:58 pm, Martin Wisse <use...@cloggie.org> wrote:
> Brasyl
> Ian McDonald
> 404 pages
> published in 2007
> .
>
> From the booklog: <http://www.cloggie.org/books/>
>

Martin, thanks for the nice review. I usually like McDonald, but
bogged down badly in BRASYL, and abandoned it.

>Meanwhile, in historical times, in 1732, Irish Jesuit priest ...

Yeah, that's what did me in, the dull "Heart of Darkness" pastiche. I
might have come back, but it was a library copy, and my to-read stack
is unusually large now, so the hell with it. YMMV.

BTW, I've been absent from rasfw lately because the persistent DOS
asshole has made GG (even more) worthless -- I lost my usenet feed in
an ISP chg, and haven't set up another. news.individual.net is still
around, yes?

Best for 2008, Pete Tillman

Best for 2008, Pete Tillman