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Subject: _Bridge_of_Birds_
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Date: Fri, 16-Aug-85 10:52:18 EDT
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Here's a recommendation for Barry Hughart's _Bridge_of_Birds_.
It's almost as good as finding a new Ernest Brama, except that BofB has more
supernatural happenings and every other sentence is not an aphorism.
(Now, if I could only find copies of my own of _Kai_Lung's_Golden_Hours_ and
_Kai_Lung_Unrolls_His_Mat_.  Or wait until BofB's sequel is out.)
BofB is funny.  Oh, and it's a fantasy of a China that never was (which I think
is just how the Kai Lung books have been described, too)--I mention it just so
those expecting some sort of space opera or evidence of historical accuracy
won't be lead astray.

"A bad idea can point to the truth, but empty-headedness only leads to 
empty-headedness or a career in politics."
L S Chabot   ...decwrl!dec-rhea!dec-amber!chabot   chabot%amber.dec@decwrl.arpa