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Blind Lake - Robert Charles Wilson
Perpetual War For Perpetual Peace - Gore Vidal
The Yiddish Policemen's Union - Michael Chabon
Switch Bitch - Roald Dahl
The Demolished Man - Alfred Bester
I know. You're so calculating. Sharp as a tack really.
It's like my good man Fred Thompson playing Adm. Painter in The Hunt for Red October said "Russians don't take a dump, son, without a plan."
Is that picture actually happening? If so, wow. You engineers are sumthin' else. It reminds me of this device my grandfather made to hold a bottle of wine. *off to find picture of wine holding thingy.*
I'm not really interested in Nabokov enough to read the book as a whole. He apparently liked to pose and solve various chess problems though and a central part of the plot in The Yiddish Policemen's Union is based on one of his problems.
Are you going with Speak, Memory for November BOTM? Whenever you do get around to reading it I would like to hear about anything in the book as it relates to chess.
And at the other end of the musical spectrum....
last: Grays Harbor Bluegrass Festival (Small Town, Lee Highway & Cedar Hill plus one other but I'm drawin' a friggin' blank here)
next: Ralph Stanley in October.