In a message dated 12/12/2002 4:03:55 PM US Mountain Standard Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
> After finally getting around to buying a Brin book (Kil'n People, which I
> picked
> because it looked intriguing and it was signed too!),
At a used or new bookstore? I picked up my copy used. There were three copies
all in a row. It made me wonder if three people treated it as a read once
only book.
> even managed to read it in the same month I bought it, which is more
impressive > when one considers that I have two hundred unread books that
have been bought > over the last couple of years.
I have 10,000 unread books. But then again I'm a bookseller.
>
> The short version: I liked it!
> Aside from the overuse of puns using the words
> 'dit', 'clay' and 'kil'n' ("Kil'n Street Blues" for crying out loud!), it
> was
> well written all the way through.
I missed the Tolkien references in the Jijo books the first time through.
I no longer trust our good Dr. Brin when it comes to names. Everything can be
a pun or a reference.
> So, can Brin-L recommend some more Brin for me? ;)
Read all in the order written? And everything on his webpage.
> Lal
> GSV Newly Converted Fan
Hey, welcome even if you're pagan
William Taylor
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Where would British dit people have their church headquarters?
'oventry
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