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booknook2025-04-09 11:33 pm
spiralsheep) wrote in booknook2025-04-09 11:33 pmEntry tags:
RIP (Read In Progress) Wednesday
Wednesday's child is full of curiosity....
What are you reading?
What are you reading?
spiralsheep) wrote in booknook2025-04-09 11:33 pm
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And then I just finished reading The Warlock in Spite of Himself in preparation for diving into another Crossroads Adventure book. It's a much better book than I'd have expected if I'd known ahead of time it was someone's first novel from 1969. OTOH, also has some of the expected faults of a popular sf novel of the time. On the third hand, contains way more political science than any reader now or then would have expected given the premise; all the stuff about popular uprisings leading to totalitarian dictatorships feels a bit awkwardly relevant, even if the author was at the time channeling paramoia about Communism.