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So, what are you reading?
I'm finally done with Christie's And Then There Were None. Didn't have much preamble, it just goes straight into it. Seems like a book written to an audience already very familiar with her work. It was enjoyable enough, and the characters worked. I've more or less given up on the desire to figure out who the killer is beforehand in these kinds of books, and I find that it is pleasant to read them like that. I'm afraid that the only other thing which I can say is that my favourite character died.
Going to give another stab at Sayers' Whose Body?
Wrapped up Locke Lamora. Overall 6/10 - the plot holes became too big to ignore by the end (why the fuck did Barsavi not make sure Locke was dead before putting him in the barrel? How could the bondsmage guild exist in the form that it does without totally upending any semblance of political stability? ).
Started on Hesse's The Glass Bead Game. I'm a little concerned that it's just going to glorify exercises in intellectual masturbation but it has a touch of Borges that makes me willing to stick it out.
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