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From: colonel@gloria.UUCP (George Sicherman)
Newsgroups: net.books,net.games.rogue
Subject: re:  BLINK DOGS
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Date: Mon, 17-Sep-84 15:56:43 EDT
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Posted: Mon Sep 17 15:56:43 1984
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[(c) 1984 Roguelet's ABC Inc.]

	P. O'Tuama, _The Compleat Guide to Blink Dogs_ (3 vol.).
Dogpatch, Boney & Liverbite, 1984.  Cloth, $49.50; paper, $20.95;
embossed trollhide, 500 g.p.

	Just in time for the Christmas holiday trade, Professor
O'Tuama has unleashed a new opus in her crusade against reality.
This is a book to delight breeders and laymen alike.  It is hand-
somely produced, with eight full-color plates and matching tableware.
More importantly, O'Tuama brings the full weight of her scholarship
to bear on this volume; the chapters on Blink Dogs in World War II,
Shakespeare and Blink Dogs, Nietzsche and Blink Dogs, and Blink Dog
Day Care Centers are mandatory reading for every well-informed
citizen.  This reviewer was unaware, for example, until reading
Professor O'Tuama's book, that no fewer than four partial skeletons
of blink dogs were unearthed in the recent bulldozing of Stonehenge
for construction of a public toilet complex.  It is fascinating
details like these that make the book so enjoyable.

	While this book cannot be recommended loudly enough, a few
minor errors have crept into the first edition:  Cleveland is in
Ohio, not Iowa; Umber Hulks do not regenerate; "ecstasy" is not
spelled with an "x"; Irish whiskey does not taste better than orc
excretions.  But this is not to disparage an otherwise admirable
effort.
-- 
Col. G. L. Sicherman
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