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Journal Entry 2 by malagan at Post Office in By Mail, A Book Relay -- Controlled Releases on Thursday, July 20, 2006
Released 5 yrs ago (7/20/2006 UTC) at Post Office in By Mail, A Book Relay -- Controlled Releases WILD RELEASE NOTES:
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This book is going to Harmaja today, as she has it on her wishlist. Happy reading!
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Journal Entry 3 by harmaja from Helsinki, Uusimaa Finland on Monday, July 24, 2006
Today was a lucky day: I received two books and two postcards in the mail! Can't remember the last time the postman was this kind!
I've must have read The Coming of the Quantum Cats half a dozen times when I was a kid. There was a copy of it in the main library of my home town, and the book was always sitting there, in the very same spot on the shelf. I don't think anyone else ever checked it out but me!
Getting The Coming of the Quantum Cats is very much a nostalgia thing for me. I certainly hope I'll still like the book, though, when I'll come around reading it again! It may take a while, since I have so many books to be read at any given point in time. Meanwhile my boyfriend will most likely read it.
Thanks so much, malagan, for agreeing to trade with me! That was good of you!
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Journal Entry 4 by harmaja from Helsinki, Uusimaa Finland on Thursday, August 16, 2007
Lately I've been re-reading some of my old sci-fi and fantasy favourites. And sadly, I've found that quite a lot of them have gone bad with the time. I've found them to be sexist, contrived, or just plain silly. The Coming of the Quantum Cats was nothing of the kind. Well, maybe just the teensies bit sexist, but that's all. Otherwise it has survived the test of time remarkably well.
The Coming of the Quantum Cats is a fairly straightforward multiple-universes sci-fi story, if such thing is not an oxymoron. The plot is quite interesting, but in no way especially remarkable. What's remarkable is the feeling at the end of the story. The back cover blurb describes it as "eerie", and I agree. I can't make up my mind whether it's a happy or a sad ending - just mind-boggling, and in a way pretty satisfactory.
I also like the egalitarian philosophy running through the novel. It shows that even little coincidences play a part in how people end up; Dominic DeSota is pretty much the same guy, whether he's a scientist or a senator, a soldier or a mortgage broker. (Well, he is the same guy, to be exact.) And what's more, the one Nicky DeSota all the rest look down upon - the mortgage broker one - is by far the nicest of them all, and immensely valuable in the end.
I really enjoyed reading this old favourite again - thanks for sending it my way, malagan! Now I'm certainly going to make my boyfriend read it as well. After that we might want to include it in our personal collection, if that's all right.
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The Coming of the Quantum Cats
