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Summary: WITTY
Review: I LOVED THIS BOOK , I COULDNT STOP READING IT , I FINISHED IT IN ONE SITTING I CANT WAIT TO TRY HER OTHER BOOKS!
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Summary: The flip side of The Doomsday Book
Review: While I loved The Doomsday Book for its suspense and dark tone, I loved To Say Nothing of the Dog for its humor and lightness. Both books kept me reading for different reasons. In To Say Nothing of the Dog I kept trying to figure out how the characters were going to fix the mess they had made. Even if you are not a science fiction fan you would enjoy this book.
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Summary: An amusing read-- Connie Willis does it a second time.
Review: I enjoyed "The Doomsday Book" very much, but after reading Ms. Willis' other books, I concluded that she was one of those authors with only one good book in them, not that there is any shame in that.After I heard that "To Say Nothing Of the Dog" had won the 1999 Hugo for best novel, I thought I give her books another try. Is is as good as "Neuromancer" and "Ender's Game"? No. But is is nevertheless a highly entertaining read, and every bit as good as "Doomsday Book." I read it straight through in one sitting, staying up late to finish it. I *had* to find out where (& what) the bishop's bird stump was!
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Summary: To Say Nothing of the Dog
Review: The issue of time travel is handled beautifully in this work as it was in Willis' previous DOOMSDAY BOOK. It is written with the urgency of a good mystery. I loved it.
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Summary: A wonderful farce -- far better than Doomsday Book
Review: The first book of Willis' I read was her Hugo and Nebula award-winning Doomsday Book, by which I was quite underwhelmed. So it was without particularly high hopes that I sat down to read To Say Nothing of the Dog, a sequel of sorts to that earlier book. To my surprise and delight, I found myself enjoying this book a great deal, largely because it was nothing at all like her earlier work. Whereas Doomsday Book had a dark tone and was set during the Black Death, To Say Nothing of the Dog is an outright farce set in the Victorian period. It possesses all the standard trimmings of the farce: improbable happenings, characters dashing about hither and yon, and a general light-hearted tone. Here's hoping that Willis sticks to comedic fare in the future.
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Summary: Much ado about nothing
Review: Willis fills the book with quotations from great English authors and references to crucial battles throughout history. In my opinion, the title of Shakespeare's play best characterizes all the hubbub. She has taken what could be a nice 30 page satirical short story and stretched it out for nearly 500 repetitive pages. The characters are silly and the plot is preposterous. Chaos theory is interesting, but don't look to understand it better by reading this book.
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Summary: This is one of the funniest sci-fi books I've ever read.
Review: I've probably read to many books in my life time, and while this is not the best book I've read, it is one of my favorites. I would recomend this book to anyone even if they didn't like science fiction. It's different, that's the only way I can put it. At times it seems to slow down as if to come to an end, but the something happpens out of the blue and BAM your back into the story and it's 20 times more interesting than before. To sum it up, if your haveing doubts as to whether you'll like it or not try it and see. I promise you'll it'll get you thinking about the little things in life that go unniticed and are taken for granted.
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Summary: brilliant
Review: this book actually explains chaos theory in an entertaining way, and the satire of Victorian England is hilarious! Just one example: I loved the scene in which the fake mediums battle it out during a seance. highly recommended
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Summary: Glorious fun!
Review: Willis combines one of her major continuing themes, time travel, with some concerns about chaos theory AND her own cheerfully goofy humor to produce a throughly marvelous SF comedy. The characterizations, the descriptions of places, and the screwy predicaments Willis keeps throwing her time-traveling hero into had me smiling through out (when I wasn't chuckling or laughing out loud!).
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Summary: Once again Connie triumphs...
Review: These One-Star Reviewers clearly don't quite get Connie (and of course they are entitled to their respective opinions). But it's pretty obvious (although not to the One-Star-ers) that she's doing something right. =To Say Nothing of the Dog= just won the 1999 Hugo Award for Best Novel. Yet another award for this most talented of authors. She's won more Hugos and Nebulas than any other SF writer. She's brilliant, and so is this hilarious book. It's not her fault if some readers just don't "get" her work. Go Connie! You rock!
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