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From: Titus G <noone@nowhere.com>
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Subject: Re: Clarke Award Finalists 1998
Date: Tue, 3 Jun 2025 17:42:51 +1200
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On 28/05/25 03:19, a425couple wrote:
> On 5/26/25 22:04, Titus G wrote:
>> On 27/05/25 01:28, James Nicoll wrote:
>>> 1998! The Good Friday Agreement gives Tories something new to undermine,
>>> Former Conservative Cabinet Minister Enoch Powell makes his greatest
>>> contribution to Britain by dying, and Andrew Wakefield's fraudulent
>>> paper
>>> puts him in the running with Thomas Midgley Jr. for single individual
>>> who did the most to undermine public health.
>>>
> (Strange!  I sent a reply yesterday.  And as I view the newsgroup,
> it is marked as a little bluish arrow next to Nichols original post,
> but then when opened, there is nothing there.  It is also not in my
> "sent mail", nor in "drafts", nor in the backlog.  ???)
> 
>>> Which 1998 Clarke Award Finalists Have You Read?
>>
>> I have read
>> The Sparrow by Mary Doria Russell
>>
>>> I have only read the Russell, which was Xtian tosh, and the Baxter,
>>> which
>>> was much worse. Would not be surprised if I read the worst two of that
>>> set.
>>
>> I thought that the Sparrow was absolutely brilliant as a horror story
>> which basically addressed the Xtian question of whether great suffering
>> was necessary to produce great art. There were further complications to
>> result in a great read. Five stars.
>>
> I read "The Sparrow" quite recently.  (Gave a copy of it to a friend,
> who loved it.  He also loved the sequel.)  I quite enjoyed the sci-fi
> and the world expanding and loving creation of new situations.  I did
> not enjoy the torture and 'abandonment' acts and feelings.

I understand. That was probably the most horrible horror I have read.
There was also the horror of the injustice in regard to the death of the
young girl.

> I got about 1/3 of way through the sequel, then due to sadness and
> onfusion, stalled out.

I have the sequel but because of my dislike of that type of horror, I
have not opened it.