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Rhys’s 2023 Year in Books
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A New Universal History of Infamy
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2004
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The Smell of Telescopes
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2000
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Nowhere Near Milkwood
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2002
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Worming the Harpy and Other Bitter Pills
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1995
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Cloud Farming in Wales
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2017
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The Postmodern Mariner
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2008
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Link Arms with Toads!
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2011
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Yule Do Nicely
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2017
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The Astral Disruptor (Sampietro Mischief #1)
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2010
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The Phantom Festival
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| I regard this book as an almost perfect novel. Having read Carr's A Month in the Country and How Steeple Sinderby Wanderers Won the F.A. Cup and enjoyed both, I was expecting to also like A Season in Sinji but in fact I more than liked it. I loved it ...more | |
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| A long time ago, at the end of my teenage years, I obtained a copy of Samuel Delany's Dhalgren and one of the blurbs for the novel claimed that it was (I am paraphrasing) one of the three most remarkable examples of language use in modern fiction. Th ...more | |
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| Easily one of the best short-story collections I have ever read. Maybe even the best. This doesn't mean that all the stories in the book are equally entertaining, but it does mean that the best stories are so good they impart a terrific momentum to t ...more | |
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When the year is over, this will surely end up being one of the best novels I read in 2024. I can't imagine too many other books coming along in the next four months to knock it down in my estimation... It is marvellous. It has a particular resonance ...more |
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I don't borrow books from the library anymore, because I have enough of my own to be reading, but when I saw this I pounced. A reprint of Ray Bradbury's first collection, originally published in 1947. The first thing that impressed me is how hefty it ...more |
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| I like this collection of stories. At the same time I understand why it might be regarded as a (mildly) controversial book in political terms. And yet I believe that much of the disdain directed at this book for political reasons is perhaps misjudged ...more | |
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An excellent book of linked short stories, though they are only linked by the theme of "work I was compelled to do" and therefore they all work well as standalone stories. The story that made the book special for me was the last and longest one, 'The ...more |
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Now that I have read Bluebeard I have read all of Vonnegut's novels except two, his first (Player Piano) and his last (Timequake). I thoroughly enjoyed Bluebeard and was tempted to give it five stars instead of four, but because it lacks ingenuity I r ...more |
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A perfect novel. I first read Mother Night more than thirty years ago. I liked it. But now, after this re-reading, I am surprised that I didn't like it more. It's not just good, it's brilliant. I think that back then, when I first began to read Vonnegu ...more |
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| Simenon's books are always short, intense, and brilliant... And although I love his 'Maigret' novels his 'roman durs' are even better. He is probably my favourite crime fiction writer... ...more | |
“During the siege of Panama, he trailed behind his comrades, picking up shreds of purple wool which had once been blue. The fighting was incredibly vicious, but there was a deeper quality to the havoc, an ineffable wiping of belief. Though he wore his name like a sealed pocket, it was picked when he passed into the Cup of Gold, city of burnished lips.”
― The Smell of Telescopes
― The Smell of Telescopes
“The next stop is mine. You’d better follow.” “The stop belongs to the railway, but I know what you mean.”
― The Smell of Telescopes
― The Smell of Telescopes
“Clearly the world wasn’t as natural as we had always assumed. Someone or something had designed it, a joker perhaps, or if geology really was responsible, then blind physical forces had no less a sense of humour than the gods, which is not implausible.”
― Thirty Tributes to Calvino
― Thirty Tributes to Calvino
Topics Mentioning This Author
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| Welsh Literature: Rhys Hughes | 2 | 20 | Feb 01, 2009 05:34PM | |
| The Next Best Boo...: Hi from Oregon | 8 | 32 | Feb 09, 2009 03:55PM | |
| 40k Book Club: Astral Disruption | 1 | 4 | Nov 24, 2010 05:26AM | |
| Atomic Fez Publis...: An interview with Rhys Hughes, author of Twisthorn Bellow | 3 | 16 | Dec 02, 2010 08:56AM | |
| 40k Book Club: Paul Di Filippo: The Complete Interview (Part 2) | 1 | 9 | Dec 06, 2010 11:52AM | |
| 40k Book Club: #amWriting: Rhys Hughes interviews Bruce Sterling [October, 4, 2010] | 1 | 7 | May 24, 2012 07:30AM | |
| SciFi and Fantasy...: Short Story Recommendations? | 31 | 106 | Jun 03, 2012 05:35AM | |
| Language & Grammar : Title Trek | 561 | 244 | Mar 19, 2014 07:52AM | |
| Literary Horror: Year's Best Weird Fiction edited by Simon Strantzas | 23 | 31 | Oct 25, 2016 04:48PM | |
| Horror Aficionados : Track the short fiction you read in 2017 | 31 | 263 | Jan 03, 2018 11:05AM |
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