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kitewithfishI went into the bookstore looking for "The Boy in the Striped Pajamas" by John Boyne, which has reservations 10 deep at the public library, and I walked out with "Orcs" by Stan Nicholls.
Translation: I went to a store to by a book written from the perspective of a Nazi work camp commander's 8 year old son, and I walked out with a collected trilogy that re-tells a slightly twisted version of the Lord of the Rings from the point of view of the evil troops.
God, I think I must be going insane.
I also noticed the physical truth of the phenomenon that I hate so very much, which is that the "Sci-Fi/ Fantasy" section of the bookstore is devoid of the most famous authors of the genre, because good books cannot be called Sci-Fi. William Gibson, creator of the idea of cyberspace, geek extraordinary, was in with the rest of the un-genred fiction.
Ah, it is a dark day for my people.
Translation: I went to a store to by a book written from the perspective of a Nazi work camp commander's 8 year old son, and I walked out with a collected trilogy that re-tells a slightly twisted version of the Lord of the Rings from the point of view of the evil troops.
God, I think I must be going insane.
I also noticed the physical truth of the phenomenon that I hate so very much, which is that the "Sci-Fi/ Fantasy" section of the bookstore is devoid of the most famous authors of the genre, because good books cannot be called Sci-Fi. William Gibson, creator of the idea of cyberspace, geek extraordinary, was in with the rest of the un-genred fiction.
Ah, it is a dark day for my people.
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Date: 2008-11-15 11:42 pm (UTC)Can I borrow that book when you're done with it?