>>>>>Seems like today is the "final" day?? Hopefully all the FLDS members won't do some stupid mass suicide.
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>>>>I think they already thought it ended months ago ;-)
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>>>>I do wonder what happened to his most faithful. I think in the 19th century the Millerites became 7th Day Adventists ...
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>>>I'm pretty sure I mentioned this once before and I think I recall your having said you read it, but for everyone else, please run out and get Robert Coover's "The Origin of the Brunists". It's brilliant and I think it's back in print.
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>>Read it many years ago and still have a copy around hear somewhere. Yes, highly recommended. ( right up there with "Canticle for Leibowitz")
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>Oh, yeah! I'd completely forgotten Canticle. Great book. The last and best thing he ever wrote. Typing of Coover, did you ever read his "The Universal Baseball Association, J. Henry Waugh, Proprietor"? I seem to recall you aren't a baseball fan, but this book is amazing and... well... different.
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>I also assume you've read Riddley Walker by Russell Hoban, but just in case you haven't, please do. A truly remarkable work.

I passed on that Coover book as I fell asleep while reading the title as soon as I hit the word "baseball" :"-)

Riddley Walker has been recommended to me often and I did start it once. I must have been in the wrong place at the wrong time as I remember giving up on it quickly.but I think I may give it another go since so many people I know who actually read book actually like it.

Just finished Joseph Kanon's ( "the Good German" ) Istanbul Passage. Really good. Istanbul in the immediate post WWII period., I was fascinated as something I am writing right now starts in Istanbul in 1969 and makes reference to the period in 1947 when Kim Philby was posted as SIS head of station in Istanbul. ( a woman I knew in Istanbul had been OSS and knew Philby both in London early in the war and during the period in Istanbul.) Kanon has a feel for period that is rivaled only by the amazing Alan Furst.