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The Blue World | Jack Vance

#Movie2BookRecs @Klou
Movie: Waterworld

hannah-leeloo I love this film. Is this the book it's based on? Please 8mo

Klou Great job! 8mo

TheSpineView @hannah-leeloo No. The book's setting is on a world in another part of the galaxy. 8mo

TheSpineView @Klou 👍 8mo

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Texreader

The Man in the Cage | Jack Vance

pick

An American disappears while running guns in #Morocco. Receiving an urgent letter from him, his brother Darrell comes to find him. Darrell finds nothing but shady characters & shadier circumstances as he travels the country piecing together what happened. Set mostly in Tangiers, we get to see vast swaths of the country, too. The mystery is excellent & a twist so surprising no one could possibly guess it. Highly recommended. #readingafrica2022

Librarybelle, BarbaraBB

LauraJ Love the vintage cover. 2y

Librarybelle Glad this one from your husband‘s collection was a great read! 2y

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Texreader

The Man in the Cage | Jack Vance

Quick #readingafrica2022 challenge update. I‘m reading three M‘s right now: #Morocco (the tagged book), #Mauritania, and #Mozambique. @Librarybelle @BarbaraBB

BarbaraBB Hardly any white spaces left! 2y

Librarybelle So amazing!!! 2y

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Texreader

The Man in the Cage | Jack Vance

Jack Vance is a master of description. Here, he could have said the car drove swiftly around the corner. Instead:

“The car swooped over the crest of the hill, veered around a corner. Ellen lifted her foot from the accelerator, fed power halfway through the turn. Darrell gripped the door. White villas fled astern like wisps of cloud behind an airplane.”

That last sentence just blows me away.

#Morocco #readingafrica2022

Librarybelle, BarbaraBB

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Texreader

The Man in the Cage | Jack Vance

The husband has loaned me one of his priceless Jack Vance books (he has all his books, mostly in limited editions and many signed) for #Morocco #readingafrica2022. So this one is my next IRL read. Jack Vance was a sci-fi writer, my husband‘s first love, but Vance also wrote many mysteries. This is one of them and it won the Edgar Award in 1960. I‘m excited to read it and it‘s short! @Librarybelle @BarbaraBB

BarbaraBB Wow 🤩 2y

Librarybelle Awesome!! 2y

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rwmg

The Languages of Pao | Jack Vance

so-so

In this 1958 novel, when Pao is unable to repel a military invasion, an adviser from the technocrat Breakness planet advises setting up restricted areas for military, mercantile, and technician castes, each with their own language. Of course, the members of these castes will need specialist training from Breakness advisers. 👎

rwmg The book could have done with more examples of the different languages showing how they work rather than abstract explanations. On the other hand, where one planet consists of undifferentiated masses of people and the other consists of extreme individualists who barely interact, it is difficult to care much about the characters, so it was a quick read but an uninvolving one. 2y

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rwmg

The Languages of Pao | Jack Vance

#lunchandabook #mycover

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deirdrebeecher

Space Opera | Jack Vance

Just watched Space Sweepers on Netflix and I think all space opera fans would love it. Red Dwarf meets Children of Men. I loved that it felt like Space in a truly international way from how the small countries of the world might experience it, as opposed to the wealthiest. It is bonkers, a bit all over the place, with great heart and is overall just tremendous fun.

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