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Feb 11, 2010 07:05AM

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Looks like the street date is February 16. Library books are given top processing priority if there's a list of reserves on it.
Is there a place on GR to go to find out about other book giveaways or is it just a random thing?

http://www.goodreads.com/giveaway


Anyway, I'm dropping everything and starting it now!

Congratulations on your new job!

Following is about his limited edition, Gunpowder. Highly recommended if you can find it!
******SPOILERS FOLLOW*******
It is very apparent in Gunpowder that Hill learned the lesson well from his father, that lesson being to READ.
In this short novella, Hill conjures Shakespeare, naming a distant and future world's moons after characters in The Tempest. That naming also forewarns the reader of the coming storm.
He quotes Arthur Clarke's 'Third Law'; "Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.", in describing "The LeGuin Project", thereby bringing A Wizard of Earthsea to mind. Implicit of course, is that the use of magic always has consequences that are very often extremely undesirable.
Highly recommended, if you're lucky enough to find a copy.
******SPOILER ABOVE*******



ETA: Changed wife to girlfriend. I thought I read on the flap she was his wife. Sorry. No, you're not missing anything, Tom.

What did I miss, or maybe I'm not to that point yet? I recall the protagonist's mother, grandmother, 'her' and one live-in. Wife?


Tressa I think we're at the same point. I think this is gonna be one of those books where my only complaint is it's over.



More after more folks have finished; don't want to spoil it.

I've got one or two chapters left to read. I am blown away by Hill's expert turn of phrasing and his humor. Many times I've laughed out loud at Ig's observations.
Hill's intelligence and sense of humor shine through in all his books. Maybe I should rethink how soon I'll expose my son to the horror genre. Joe doesn't seem to be warped from having Stephen and Tabitha King for parents. I bet they had some interesting dinner table conversations in that house.

http://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/2...

I'll try to get to it soon.






Tressa Joe hill is King's son. Heart Shaped Box and Horns.




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