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The Golden One

Posted by Mark | Filed under Books, Reviews

I fin­ished read­ing Ms. Peter’s The Golden One last night and while I found the book slow to start off; it defi­nately picked up towards the end (nice punch, Bertie!). It’s my under­stand­ing that there are two more books after The Golden One, in the Amelia Peabody series; but we don’t have copies and frankly I’m ready for a break from read­ing mys­ter­ies. I started dig­ging around look­ing for a copy of Asimov’s I, Robot as I’d seen the trailer for the new movie, with Will Smith, and wanted to refresh my mem­ory of the story before the movie came out.

Unforun­tately, I was star­tled to learn that I don’t have a copy of that book around the house (or at the very least, it’s nowhere that I could find it). To make up for the lack, I dug out my copy of THE BICENTENNIAL MAN and started read­ing throught that. I’ve nearly fin­ished it –what do you expect? it’s really short!– and I’m just like, wow!

Read­ing Asi­mov was such a refresh­ing expe­ri­ence; the crisp, clean style just flows so eas­ily past the eyes and though the sto­ries in the book are fairly old (20–40 years, I think¹they still don’t seem… entirely fool­ish, in the light of how the mod­ern world has been turn­ing out.

On another side note², I was some­what annoyed last night because I thought I had sev­eral used sci-fi books from the last library book sale but I couldn’t find them. So either my mem­ory is worse than I thought (entirely pos­si­ble) or they got moved around when we last straight­ened up the apart­ment because peo­ple were com­ing over. Grrr…

¹ If I get a chance dur­ing my lunch hour, I’ll double-check the copy­right years.
² It occurs to me that many of the entries in this blog are lit­tle more than side notes and even the non-side notes are still pep­pered with side notes. What’s my point? I’m not sure, but I felt it was wor­thing make­ing a foot­note about my inco­her­ent writ­ing style which mostly con­sists of adding more side notes when­ever I have another thought that I’d like to record.

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