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[Powderworks] Capricornia - the book

gabriel luci gluci@yahoo.com
Sat, 2 Mar 2002 17:08:12 -0500


Since this is becoming a reading list; I too have recently begun
Capricornia: a novel, as titled in my library.  Capricornia (not ":a
novel") is a book of French poetry ( or something to that effect).  This
book is really good, but there is a lot that I don't understand, like
what a corrobee(sp) is.  At the same time as not understanding some
words, I am learning a lot of new things like lubra and the general
story of pioneer life, etc.  OK, enough with boring y'all (for now).

gabe

-----Original Message-----
From: powderworks-admin@cs.colorado.edu
[mailto:powderworks-admin@cs.colorado.edu] On Behalf Of j p niven
Sent: Saturday, March 02, 2002 2:29 AM
To: powderworks@cs.colorado.edu
Subject: [Powderworks] Capricornia - the book

At 10:40 PM -0700 3/1/02, powderworks-request@cs.colorado.edu wrote:
>So I just received my copy of Capricornia THE BOOK.  Has anyone here
read it
>yet?  I'm going to try and start into this weekend.  At 649 pages
though it
>may take a bit of a commitment to get through it.  I'll report back
once I
>succeed!


I read Capricornia over winter break, it was out on interlibrary loan 
so I had only 2 weeks to read it in! I had no work or school to do so 
could spend as much time as I liked each day reading, to my surprise 
I finished the whole book in 3 days! The hours just flew by without 
me noticing, I got quite wrapped up in what would happen next. Not 
that it's super suspenseful or anything but the writing focused more 
on action instead of thoughts, so it seemed quicker paced. Besides 
which the story is just very interesting (I thought). I'd definitely 
recommend it, don't let the length discourage you!

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