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11-11-2006, 10:18 PM
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It's sort of like the Index, only he doesn't just ban you from being published...
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11-13-2006, 08:53 PM
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Okay, it sounds oh so much less ominous now....
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11-14-2006, 03:46 AM
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Heh. This one.
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11-14-2006, 03:51 AM
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Did you look that up, or did you really know that? It's important to me.
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11-14-2006, 05:47 PM
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OH MY GOD I LOVED THAT BOOK!! I had completely forgotten about it! Everyone gets rhyming aphasia -- and the forty-foot-tall ragweed -- okay I have to go put a copy on my wish list right now this second.
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11-14-2006, 06:30 PM
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Has anyone read the sequel Centerburg Tales as well?
I have a special fondness for turn of the century America. The days of transition from horses to cars, barbershop quartets, the whole Music Man/River City mystique. Probably my favorite Homer Price story is still the doughnut machine. It combines the best of the endless-machine genre (gotta wonder if the Lucy Show chocolate assembly line had this in mind), the friends-from-crisis genre, the kid-knows-more-than-the-adults genre, and the "how many times can the author up the stakes" genre. At the Mall of America Krispy Kreme there's a visual assembly line for the doughnuts, but even that can't compare to the elegant simplicity of the Homer Price story.
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11-14-2006, 07:12 PM
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I read all of them. All these years later, nearly every one of the names and situations is as familiar as if I'd read it... oh, last week. I could probably have drawn the doughnut machine from memory and still got it about 90% right. Super-Duper. That record in the jukebox. "Labor-saving devices" -- hee.
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11-15-2006, 10:38 AM
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Quote:
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11-15-2006, 12:21 PM
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Scooter! Where ya been?
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