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To Have and Have Not by Ernest Hemingway. Lots of racial pejoratives, nihilist plot, I prefer Dashiell Hammett. The Wrath of Vajazzle by Barry J Hutchison Highly amusing mashup of sci fi genres most like Guardians of the Galaxy, although Splurt also resembles a character from The Orville... The Colors of All the Cattle by Alexander McCall Smith. Although I enjoy most of Smith's writing, I do wonder at times why all the characters including the married ones refer to each other by their full titles constantly. It may be a Botswanan custom, but it does slow the pace of the conversations. That's not all bad, since I often read in the night to get sleepy enough to return to sleep... The only other author to use full names consistently that I know of is Daniel Pinkwater, who generally used it for comic effect... That said, this novel is a nice satire on small town politics as well as a couple minor mysteries thrown in... Lessons from Lucy by Dave Barry, Remarkably sincere homespun sentiment and pithy truth from a serial exaggerator... And it's got a dog in it... Pyramids by Terry Pratchett. He wrote a lot of books because he had a whole world to parody--this one on the pyramids... The love story reminded me of Star Wars for some reason... |