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From: chabot@miles.DEC (L S Chabot)
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Subject: The Secret Country
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Date: Mon, 1-Apr-85 15:30:44 EST
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Posted: Mon Apr  1 15:30:44 1985
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Well, SZKB is right.  _The_Secret_Country_ is great.  Not the least of Pamela
Dean's gifts is demonstrated in the conversation of the characters: it's
natural.  The tension in the conflict of is-this-a-game-or-is-this-reality, of
this-is-beautiful-or-this-is-potentially-dangerous, is compelling and 
impossible to avoid.  This will speak to all of us who've ever stared at the
ceiling in the bedroom and piloted shuttles to the belt or tracked dragons or
well, you know what I mean.

I haven't read a book I felt such a strong desire to read again immediately 
(all-the-way-through, yes, yes!) in such a long time.

And it's out in bookstores now (I got mine Saturday).

L S Chabot
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