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Peanut Butler posted:Anyway- haven't read Asprin since then, I don't expect HIGH LITERATURE, but is it readable? The early Myth books are still classics of the genre, the Phule books remain readable as an adult. A lot of his other stuff is just kinda flat and bad and unfunny but I think he just ran out of good ideas.
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504 posted:
pssssshh Three Men in a Boat was published in 1889
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Veni Vidi Ameche! posted:The Road to Gandalfo, wherein five-star General and World War II hero Mackenzie “Mad Man Mac the Hawk” Hawkins is kicked out of the army for peeing on an important monument in China, and thereafter enlists the unwilling help of army lawyer Sam Devereaux in a plot to kidnap the Pope as part of a blackmail scheme to get himself back into the army. It turns out the Pope needed a vacation, anyway, but, unfortunately, the Pope’s mediocre opera singer lookalike cousin turns out to be poor interim pontiff. For some reason this reminded me of https://www.amazon.com/Secret-Santa-Vittoria-Novel-ebook/dp/B00EGJE41C Great little post-ww2 comedy about an Italian town trying to outfox nazis and save their wine harvest; sortof the same genre as Hogan's Heroes. quote:The book was on the New York Times bestseller list for over 50 weeks, spending 18 of them at the top of the list,[2] and became an international bestseller. Set in an Italian hill-town and telling the story of local resistance to the Nazis during World War II, the novel was adapted into a Golden Globe winning film of the same name in 1969. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Crichton_(novelist)
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