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Sep. 24th, 2010 05:44 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
thelibraniniquityMummy's ill again, which means it's been a slow week work-wise this week, culminating in not having to go in at all today. Yays. Except for the part where we're making up for it with a full day tomorrow. Oh, well.
All was not lost though - was out running some errands earlier and found another Jack McDevitt novel in the charity shop underneath the flat. This one's called Eternity Road (probable spoilers in link) and chronicles Earth as a dead civilisation and archaeological site to an alien settlement. And I suck at single sentence summaries. But it looks so fantastic. I'll quote off the back of the book:
Their archaeologists call us the Roadmakers, and believe us to be a civilisation who found mythological significance in tarmac... They argue and conjecture over artefacts like the strange metal cans with the letters Pepsi inscribed on both sides... And when they uncover an ancient book - a copy of Mark Twain's "A Connecticut Yankee in the Court of King Arthur" - they wonder at the values and traditions of our society.
The book's a bit thinner than the two other McDevitt titles I've got, and I'm hoping that means the pace is a bit quicker in this one; Chindi was fabulous despite a very slow start, and The Engines of God, which I'm about halfway through at the moment, is interesting but very slow going, at the moment at least. It looks like the plot's going to get a good kick up the arse over the next couple of chapters or so, and can't come soon enough!
I'm running out of shelf space. I had to completely reorganise the big bookshelf a few weeks ago or risk permanently damaging the shelves, so I've now got books in piles of six or seven on my coffee table, desk and chest, not to mention overflow DVDs and boxsets dotted around the place.
One day I will have read and watched everything I currently own. I can't see that day coming any time soon. Until then at least I'll always have something I ought to be doing :D
All was not lost though - was out running some errands earlier and found another Jack McDevitt novel in the charity shop underneath the flat. This one's called Eternity Road (probable spoilers in link) and chronicles Earth as a dead civilisation and archaeological site to an alien settlement. And I suck at single sentence summaries. But it looks so fantastic. I'll quote off the back of the book:
Their archaeologists call us the Roadmakers, and believe us to be a civilisation who found mythological significance in tarmac... They argue and conjecture over artefacts like the strange metal cans with the letters Pepsi inscribed on both sides... And when they uncover an ancient book - a copy of Mark Twain's "A Connecticut Yankee in the Court of King Arthur" - they wonder at the values and traditions of our society.
The book's a bit thinner than the two other McDevitt titles I've got, and I'm hoping that means the pace is a bit quicker in this one; Chindi was fabulous despite a very slow start, and The Engines of God, which I'm about halfway through at the moment, is interesting but very slow going, at the moment at least. It looks like the plot's going to get a good kick up the arse over the next couple of chapters or so, and can't come soon enough!
I'm running out of shelf space. I had to completely reorganise the big bookshelf a few weeks ago or risk permanently damaging the shelves, so I've now got books in piles of six or seven on my coffee table, desk and chest, not to mention overflow DVDs and boxsets dotted around the place.
One day I will have read and watched everything I currently own. I can't see that day coming any time soon. Until then at least I'll always have something I ought to be doing :D
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Date: 2010-09-24 05:26 pm (UTC)Also, you make me miss my books. *eyes half-empty bookshelves* I could fill them up in no time, if I could just find someone to get my boxes from one country to the other...
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Date: 2010-09-24 05:35 pm (UTC)And aww! My problem at the moment is just that I have nowhere to put things. And I live within thirty seconds' walk of four - no, five charity shops and I have zero impulse control. So, y'know ;)
You should start smuggling books into the UK. Like that book dealer from the White Collar pilot. Just fill suitcase after suitcase full of books. It could work.
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Date: 2010-09-24 05:40 pm (UTC)Hahaha, I already do. Everytime I go either way. X-mas I will go by train, since then I have no weight restrictions. *gg*
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Date: 2010-09-24 05:59 pm (UTC)Aeroplanes are over-rated - they'll charge you by the suitcase as well :/ So how many journeys do you reckon you'll have to make to get your entire library over here?
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Date: 2010-09-24 08:23 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-09-24 09:39 pm (UTC)