SciFi and Fantasy Book Club discussion

Thanks for the great discussion everyone. I figure most of you are going to write reviews and I definitely want to read them, so post your link here so we can all go read them.

I said something in some thread here about Pippi Longstocking, and it led me to a bit of a strange take on things. I thought you might like it (especially you, Jon): Click here

Mine: http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/...

http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/...

I still need to get around to writing a review.

Hell, several reviews. I'm slacking like a mofo...

If I let them wait, they'll never get done.

I'm like 18 books behind or so.

I just started twitching at the thought. I think I'm only 1 or 2 behind right now, and they can wait until the month ends.

it's brief, but it's done:

http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/...

and here's my not-remotely-brief review:

http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/...

Finally got around to writing my review, albeit an ambiguous spoiler-free vague one. That's what I get for waiting nearly two months to write it.

Hey all! Please use this for the upcoming official group re-read! There are a crap ton of threads for this book, I've commandeered this one for the full spoiler discussion. Have at it!

I have found that Phlebas is a Phoenician in Part IV "Death by Water" from T. S. Eliot's The Waste Land, who has died by drowning. In death he has forgotten his worldly cares as the creatures of the sea have picked his body apart. The narrator asks the reader to consider Phlebas and recall his or her own mortality.

Having finished Consider Phlebas, I wonder if anyone is familiar enough with The Waste Land to say whether there are any plot parallels other than (view spoiler)[simply that Horza dies (hide spoiler)].

Tomislav wrote: "I have found that Phlebas is a Phoenician in Part IV "Death by Water" from T. S. Eliot's The Waste Land, who has died by drowning. In death he has forgotten his worldly cares as the cr..."

I don't think there is much in the way of plot parallels, but a bit further on there is the line "look to windward", which is the title of another Bank's book.