On 10/8/07, Ronn! Blankenship <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > At 09:06 AM Monday 10/8/2007, Mauro Diotallevi wrote: > >On 10/5/07, Gary Nunn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > If you get a chance to pick up the series by John Scalzi: Old Man's War , > > > The Last War and The Ghost Brigades, do so, they were an excellent read. > > > >Scalzi's latest book, _The Android's Dream_, reads like Douglas Adams > >and Peter David at a Monty Python convention. Beware: this book is > >not for you if you are offended by extended fart jokes... > > > How extended? 5 seconds? Ten? Thirty? More?
The entire first chapter is one long fart joke, as well as being the originating incident that kicks off the story. The farting itself takes place over the course of a full hour of story-internal time. And yet, as well as being extremely funny and at points, *very* juvenile, this book somehow this manages to be exceedingly intelligent and thought-provoking. -- Mauro Diotallevi "Hey, Harry, you haven't done anything useful for a while -- you be the god of jello now." -- Patricia Wrede, 8/16/2006 on rasfc _______________________________________________ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
