|
|
#70579
05/19/2002 7:03 PM
|
Joined: Nov 2000
Posts: 3,439
Carpal Tunnel
|
|
Carpal Tunnel
Joined: Nov 2000
Posts: 3,439 |
Just finished a book that's a natural for word lovers.
"The Grand Complication" by Allen Kurzweil an imprint of Hyperion, New York
ISBN 0-7868-6603-9 aand currently available at your local library of bookstore.
The "Girdle This" in post header? It is not what leaps to mind!
To quote the booknotes on the jacket :
"Narrated by Alexander Short, a stylish young reference librariann of arcane interests, The Grand Complication propels the reader through a card catalogue of desperation and delight, of intrigue and theft. It's a novel of suspense that comes full circle, with a clockmaker's precision and a storyteller's surprise, on page 360"
Recommended -- and a delight for it's vocabulary!
When was the last time the word "abcdenarian" turned up in a converstaion in a fiction book you were reading? Followed in the next few pages by an apt allusion to "volume visualization?"
|
|
|
#70580
05/20/2002 12:03 AM
|
Joined: Jan 2001
Posts: 13,858
Carpal Tunnel
|
|
Carpal Tunnel
Joined: Jan 2001
Posts: 13,858 |
Dear wow: I mis-coined it slightly, but on May 4:
Re: easy as abc - maybe
abcderian and running for cover.
|
|
|
|
Forums16
Topics13,916
Posts230,481
Members9,211
| |
Most Online17,319
Apr 8th, 2026
|
|
|
|
|
|
