Not TRP: Lost Empress - Sergio de la Pava

[Keith Davis]

Sounds good. I thoroughly enjoyed A Naked Singularity, as well. Thanks, Becky.

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> On Dec 27, 2018, at 12:51 PM, jbloocher at gmail.com wrote:
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> A Naked Singularity was great (interesting I bought it in one of those ‘Pound Shops’ for a quid. Very pleased. I’m going to order this now. Thanks! 
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>> On 27 Dec 2018, at 16:10, Becky Lindroos <bekah0176 at sbcglobal.net> wrote:
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>> Great novel, inventive, ambitious, fun. It’s a bit wordy and convoluted, but still, one of the best I’ve read this year.  
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>> First, the subtitle is definitely meaningful – pay attention. There is a Prologue, but the story really kicks off with Chapter 88. Odd, yes, but with a point – it’s like a countdown and increases tension in itself but there’s more. And we have the best opening lines since “A screaming comes across the sky,” (Pynchon Gravity’s Rainbow) or “Now single up all lines” (Pynchon again from  Against the Day): 
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>> *******
>> Lost Empress (a protest) 
>> by Sergio de la Pava
>> 2018 / 624 pages (Kindle) 
>> read by full cast 19h 3m
>> rating 9.5 / contemp fiction 
>> (both read and listened) 
>> *******
>> 
>> From Lost Empress; 
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>> “Let us then have, in these pages, an entertainment.”
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>> And indeed the book is, truly, an entertainment in the very best sense of the term. And de la Pava goes on with the paragraph: 
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>> Not strictly one, but principally so. Let wit and peals of laughter distract to the point of defiance and leave for elsewhere the desultory analysis of decay and devolution.” –   
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>> What a super way to open. It lends the old meaning to the term “novel.” Okay, so it is rather far-fetched in places and wordy in others.  It’s not perfect.  
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>> I read de la Pava’s first book,  A Naked Singularity (link to my review on this site) and was totally enamored, finding it to be one of the best books I read all last year (2017). But in some ways, Last Empress surpasses that. So what am I to say now?
>> Becky
>> https://beckylindroos.wordpress.com
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