so... who got The Kindly Ones yesterday... hmm?

[Bryan Snyder]

God... I love how someone here can just toss out a question and i get to 
read al these awesome responses... and review links...

Thanks to everyone... I'm only 60 pages deep (I'm starting a new job on 
tuesday so I'm doing lots of hectic things) so I'm holding back my opinions.

B

Michael Bailey wrote:
> rich wrote:
>
>   
>> the initial descriptions of the work of the Einstazgruppen in the book
>> remind me alot of bits of Klimov's Come and See.
>>
>> grim stuff indeed but shouldn't it be?
>>
>>     
>
> yeah, I'm just grumpy.  everybody raves about 4 x 10, 3 day weekends,
> but I haven't found a way to get my quota of sleep - the extra day off
> is just another day to spend money which there's never enough of, end
> up adjusting back to daytime waking just in time to miss a night's
> sleep the 1st day back, just as soon be at work as some of the lame
> stuff I do on my days off, and my butt is draggin' for those last 2
> hours on the work days...(still, of all the things I've ever had to
> complain about, this has to be one of the puniest)
>
> it does sound like a good book.  didn't mean to be a buzzkill.  I
> remember when the list discussed it when it came out in French, I
> think Pynchonoid read it in French; the previous work of Mr Littell
> sounded like a kind of right wing futuristic sci fi and I've got him
> pegged as an undesirable (I learned from recent viewing of Sports
> Night the AA phrase "contempt prior to investigation" which I seem to
> have been applying)
> Still, I probably won't get around to that just yet.  Put me down for
> it in maybe 2011...
>
> now for something completely different...
> Here's a neat link, perhaps: http://www.laborheritage.org/videos.htm
>
>