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I'm trying to remember the name of a series of detective novels I read in the 90's. They were set in the states, probably in New York. The main character was an eccentric/bohemian type, given to big hats, jazz and cravats. Although I might be misremembering all of that, quirky anyway. Name might being with "F". A detail I remember was that he had to let people in to his apartment/office by throwing or lowering down the keys. Edit: It was Kinky Friedman yaffle fucked around with this message at 21:21 on Mar 22, 2023 |
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wizzardstaff posted:That sounds like A Street Through Time illustrated by Steve Noon. It sounds a lot like it, but "A street through time" was published in 1998. Could it be something by Peter Spier? The Legend of New Amsterdam perhaps?
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xian posted:Speculative science fiction set in new york about a risk manager / actuary dealing with climate change. Can't remember the title. Came out in the last 10-15 years. Not 2140 by KSR. I think KSR has written more than one book on that subject...
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Narzack posted:As per usual, it's a YA book that I read in junior high. Very vague, but it was about a dude who somehow- I think it was a cave or a tunnel of some kind- goes through a portal to prehistoric/caveman/dinosaur times and meets a tribe of humans and lives with them for a bit. Acclimates, falls in love, that kinda thing. I thiiiiiiiiiink that they hunted wooly mammoths or sabretooth tigers. The only sequence that I can still remember is when the dude finally kisses his cavechick, there is a line about his sliding his thumb into her sweaty armpit. I remember thinking, like, the smell must be unimaginable. This is most likely "The Transall Saga" by Gary Paulson, its a perennial favorite in this sort of thread.
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Mar 2, 2024 15:48
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Fork of Unknown Origins posted:Ok I cannot for the life of me find this via google. One of the Erin Hunter books maybe? They are all about gangs of cats that go and live in the wild, but there are about 100 of them so it could be any of them.
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tomanton posted:Could really use help sourcing a Shakespeare(?) quote, I recall some old outmatched swordsman about to die for his beliefs saying something like "some battles aren't to win or lose but to say you fought". I can't find anything on it so maybe it's from a different author or I imagined it entirely. You could be mis-remembering Grantland Rice: "For when the One Great Scorer comes To mark against your name, He writes - not that you won or lost - But how you played the Game"
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