Long weekend, plus lots of new books. I heart new books + time to read them! Not only did my birthday books finally come in, but Mitchell loaned us both Flyboys and The Glorious Cause. 900-odd pages there. Flyboys looks very interesting. I read the first chapter or so last night and was shocked (shocked, I tell you) at general reminders of barbarism in both the West and the East. More to come, but apparently it's a pretty graphic book. I do want to compare it to the descriptions of Japanese war behavior in Cryptonomicon, which gets pretty bleak in places.
Anyhoo, I also got Stephenson's Quicksilver and King's Dark Tower V, Wolves of the Calla in hardback. Exciting not only because I've been waiting for them, but because the next two volumes in each series have firm publication dates! Scheduled bliss!
As part of my new Hugo Library collection initiative, I also got Vernor Vinge's A Deepness In The Sky (2000 winner) and Joe Haldeman's The Forever War (1976 winner).
Since it never rains but pours, last night we also got the new Newsweek with a LOTR:ROTK cover story and my new F&SF. I was running around like a kid in a candy store, thumbing through one, picking up another, reading flyleaves and back covers, and generally trying not to salivate. Note that I'm not even considering finishing Clancy's Red Rabbit that I picked up in the Calgary airport in a desparate bid to ward off boredom (O'Brian's The Far Side of the World would have been a better choice; fortunately, Delta showed The Hulk on the way back from Salt Lake).
Sometimes, life is good.
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