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[Tlhingan-hol] Unmissable
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Lucifuge Rofocale)
Sat Dec 3 20:05:05 2011
Date: Sun, 4 Dec 2011 01:04:40 +0000 (GMT)
From: Lucifuge Rofocale <fiat_knox@yahoo.co.uk>
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As President of a local SF & Fantasy Readers Club, we pick a book to read e=
ach month, usually focusing on a specific theme or author. This month, the =
last meeting of 2011 carried the theme "The Unmissables." That one book, ab=
ove all others, that you would take with you if you got marooned on a deser=
t island.=0A=0AI selected, and had to defend, TKD.=0A=0AMy choice came unde=
r unwarranted levels of scorn from someone who clearly had no idea that we'=
d picked the theme to reflect those books we could truly not do without. Gi=
ven the choice between TKD, H P Lovecraft's "The Haunter Of The Dark And Ot=
her Weird Tales" and Larry Niven's "Ringworld," though ... for me, TKD wins=
out every time.=0A=0AIn all the years I have owned copies of TKD, from the=
very earliest copy of paq SuD to the paq chIS and the two sequels on my sh=
elf, the tapes, merch and (soon) Klingon Monopoly and EuroTalk, a copy of T=
KD has never been far from me, and I have never been bored by its contents.=
=0A=0AAs soon as I write up a more detailed and impassioned defence of this=
lovely book, I will post a permalink to the blog entry.
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ramond, new york, times, serif;font-size:12pt">As President of a local SF &=
amp; Fantasy Readers Club, we pick a book to read each month, usually focus=
ing on a specific theme or author. This month, the last meeting of 2011 car=
ried the theme "The Unmissables." That one book, above all others, that you=
would take with you if you got marooned on a desert island.<br><br>I selec=
ted, and had to defend, TKD.<br><br>My choice came under unwarranted levels=
of scorn from someone who clearly had no idea that we'd picked the theme t=
o reflect those books we could truly not do without. Given the choice betwe=
en TKD, H P Lovecraft's "The Haunter Of The Dark And Other Weird Tales" and=
Larry Niven's "Ringworld," though ... for me, TKD wins out every time.<br>=
<br>In all the years I have owned copies of TKD, from the very earliest cop=
y of paq SuD to the paq chIS and the two sequels on my shelf, the
tapes, merch and (soon) Klingon Monopoly and EuroTalk, a copy of TKD has n=
ever been far from me, and I have never been bored by its contents.<br><br>=
As soon as I write up a more detailed and impassioned defence of this lovel=
y book, I will post a permalink to the blog entry.<br><br><br></div></body>=
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