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jwharris28
Posted 2015-11-14 10:57 AM (#11822 - in reply to #10669)
Subject: Re: The Definitive 1960s Reading Challenge		Quote Reply



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I finished Thorns by Robert Silverberg which was pretty good, but not great. I was hoping it would be really good like Downward to the Earth which I discovered a few weeks back. I also listened to Babel-17 by Samuel R. Delany. I've been waiting about 15 years hoping Delany would come to audio, ever since I first discovered Audible.com. Well, finally Babel-17 showed up, and Dhalgren will come out in January. The wait was worth it. As much as I love Delany back in the 1960s, his prose was never meant for my teenage speed reading habits. Listening to Babel-17 made it come alive in ways my previous readings hadn't. This is a great book for the 1960s Reading Challenge because Delany and Zelazny changed the style and flavor of science fiction in the 1960s.

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