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Summary: The old west meets the stars in a smash romantic thriller!
Review: Like Cowboy Feng himself, this story is a blend of seemingly unrelated things into an unusual and heartily satisfying totality.Love, music, space/time travel, grief, mystery and espionage sweep the reader off into a world that only Steven Brust could create. Cowboy Feng's Space Bar and Grille is really the only downtown place to be. This is a happening spot, indeed.
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Summary: Absolute Greatness
Review: Steven Brust is one of my favorite writers, and unfortunately not nearly enough people know about him.Since I have yet to get my hands on a copy of To Reign in Hell this is my absolutely favorite of all his works.
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Summary: Space and Time and Matzo ball soup
Review: This book just blew me away. When I read it i had no idea that the same author who wrote the Vlad Taltos series that I loved had anything to do with this book. Each time I read it I find myself being drawn further into the sad, exciting, and beautiful mind of our hero, Cowboy Feng... not to give anything away. When I say hero, i mean it with a capital H. Out to preserve humanity, and music and good cooking all together, and a hippie besides! The book is a semi cronological set of occurences that are interspersed with brief moments from the pasts of the leading characters, concealing a frightening plot point which remains unimportant until the last paragraph of the book. I say unimportant because the book is really about its characters. Its about love and faith and dealing and accepting and not accepting the inevitable even when it is fate. Its also about falling in love and the secret about the importance of what can be done with a goat. It puts paranoia in its place. In todays world it is extremely relevant, and more people should read it. While a very brief read, it is very worthwhile. Over the number of years since I first found it in my high school library, I went out and found it, bought it, and read it about once a year. It is not a long book, and not a sophisticated book in the conventional sense, but somehow it just keeps getting better and better. Every time I read it I fall in love with the title character again. This book has high marks on my personal list of classics of the 20th century. I think every child should read it. 'Cowboy Feng's Space Bar and Grille' is a time travel tragedy of epic porportions.
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Summary: Space and Time and Matzo ball soup
Review: This book just blew me away. When I read it i had no idea that the same author who wrote the Vlad Taltos series that I loved had anything to do with this book. Each time I read it I find myself being drawn further into the sad, exciting, and beautiful mind of our hero, Cowboy Feng... not to give anything away. When I say hero, i mean it with a capital H. Out to preserve humanity, and music and good cooking all together, and a hippie besides! The book is a semi cronological set of occurences that are interspersed with brief moments from the pasts of the leading characters, concealing a frightening plot point which remains unimportant until the last paragraph of the book. I say unimportant because the book is really about its characters. Its about love and faith and dealing and accepting and not accepting the inevitable even when it is fate. Its also about falling in love and the secret about the importance of what can be done with a goat. It puts paranoia in its place. In todays world it is extremely relevant, and more people should read it. While a very brief read, it is very worthwhile. Over the number of years since I first found it in my high school library, I went out and found it, bought it, and read it about once a year. It is not a long book, and not a sophisticated book in the conventional sense, but somehow it just keeps getting better and better. Every time I read it I fall in love with the title character again. This book has high marks on my personal list of classics of the 20th century. I think every child should read it. 'Cowboy Feng's Space Bar and Grille' is a time travel tragedy of epic porportions.
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