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From: padpowell@wateng.UUCP (PAD Powell[Admin])
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Subject: Super-good read: James Clavel, Tai-pan, King Rat, etc.
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Date: Mon, 19-Sep-83 09:19:55 EDT
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Posted: Mon Sep 19 09:19:55 1983
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I have just been re-reading my James Clavel collection.  I highly
recommend him for a weekend read.  Tremendously interesting word pictures,
fantastically accurate details of scenes, and very good plotting.
His forte is the historical adventure novel.
Tai-pan:  very good, but take the bias with a kilo of salt.
King Rat:  (I think by Clavel, but the cover has fallen off and I am too
	lazy to check before I send this)  Extremely very good.  According
	to a survivor of a Japanese Prisoner of War Extermination Camp
	is very toned down...  The Japanese Army were not as nice as painted
	in the book.
Sandpebbles:  good afternoon killer.  First half excellent, last half drags.

Patrick ("Anybody read Anne of the Thousand Days?") Powell