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		<title>Wallander&#8217;s second</title>
		<link>http://www.tekstadventure.nl/branko/blog/2009/12/wallanders-second</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 06 Dec 2009 21:33:55 +0000</pubDate>
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The Dogs of Riga
I know I haven&#8217;t been blogging for a while, but I just do not have the time, so I will keep it short. 
People pay money for this? 
It&#8217;s not that Henning Mankell&#8217;s police procedural The Dogs of Riga is badly written, indeed for most of the time, and especially the beginning [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Nice refresher course in biology</title>
		<link>http://www.tekstadventure.nl/branko/blog/2009/09/nice-refresher-course-in-biology</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 19 Sep 2009 14:15:13 +0000</pubDate>
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Life Ascending, The Ten Great Inventions of Evolution
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What little I remember about the organization of life from my few high school biology classes in the early 1980s is that the realm of the living was divided into animals and plants.
The world of biology has not, it seems from this book, stood still in the intervening [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Joep&#8217;s wonderlijke avonturen</title>
		<link>http://www.tekstadventure.nl/branko/blog/2007/11/joeps-wonderlijke-avonturen</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 07 Nov 2007 22:44:57 +0000</pubDate>
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Joep&#8217;s wonderlijke avonturen
When I first read Herman Heijermans&#8217; &#8220;Joeps wonderlijke avonturen&#8221; (Jack&#8217;s Wondrous Adventures) I was pleasantly surprised for two reasons. The first was that it was by far not as bad as I had expected based on what little I knew from Heijermans, third hand knowledge I had about his play &#8220;Op hoop van [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Strong adventure story</title>
		<link>http://www.tekstadventure.nl/branko/blog/2007/05/strong-adventure-story</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 22 May 2007 15:08:42 +0000</pubDate>
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Harry Potter and the Philosopher&#8217;s Stone
review by Branko Collin 
&#8220;Mr and Mrs Dursley, of number four, Privet Drive, were proud to say that they were perfectly normal, thank you very much.&#8221; This must be one of the clunkiest opening sentences I have ever read, and yet it is the opening sentence of one of the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Farmer in the Sky</title>
		<link>http://www.tekstadventure.nl/branko/blog/2006/11/farmer-in-the-sky</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 28 Nov 2006 12:37:15 +0000</pubDate>
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Ganymede, a moon of Jupiter, has been terraformed, and enough time has passed to accept pioneers to homestead a piece of land. The conditions are horrible; lose access to outside (read: Earthly) help, and you are condemned to a certain death. But at least you get a chance to get away from overcrowded planet Earth. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Robber Bride</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 11 Nov 2006 00:25:05 +0000</pubDate>
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The Robber Bride is a very, very, very slow book. It could have easily been told in 50 pages instead of the 528 it took.
The blurbs bubble on about how witty and funny it is; I guess I completely missed what this novel is about. But perhaps I can re-tell the surface story; we follow [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Neuromancer</title>
		<link>http://www.tekstadventure.nl/branko/blog/2006/08/neuromancer</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 13 Aug 2006 01:44:05 +0000</pubDate>
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Neuromancer is about a bank job. Case used to be an ace safe cracker, until he got cocky and took off with his customer&#8217;s money. They broke both his hands in retaliation. But that is what makes him perfect for this job: nobody will suspect he is involved.
The team that is collected around him is [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Enter Uncle Oswald</title>
		<link>http://www.tekstadventure.nl/branko/blog/2006/08/enter-uncle-oswald</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 05 Aug 2006 12:06:43 +0000</pubDate>
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I invoke the power of my memory and proclaim this to be one of Dahl&#8217;s lesser books. Still, with Roald Dahl that still means that this is a ripping read. 
Switch Bitch contains four longish short stories that all involve some kind of switching sex partners. And knowing Dahl, either the switcher or the switchee [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Bad Medicine</title>
		<link>http://www.tekstadventure.nl/branko/blog/2006/02/bad-medicine</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 22 Feb 2006 01:43:02 +0000</pubDate>
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Another story I was going to read over Christmas was Robert Sheckley&#8217;s Bad Medicine, from which I quoted the beginning: 
On May 2, 2103, Elwood Caswell walked rapidly down Broadway with a loaded revolver hidden in his coat pocket. He didn’t want to use the weapon, but feared he might anyhow. This was a justifiable [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Four Max Carrados Detective Stories</title>
		<link>http://www.tekstadventure.nl/branko/blog/2006/02/four-max-carrados-detective-stories</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 22 Feb 2006 01:19:02 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[As I wrote earlier, I was going to read Bramah and Sheckley over Christmas, which I have. I also suggested that Bramah&#8217;s Kai Lung may have influenced Terry Pratchett; but I read a book from that other series of Ernest Bramah, so I won&#8217;t be able to compare the authors. Yet.
Max Carrados is yet another [...]]]></description>
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