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I'm so pleased Rush made this album. As they hit the road for their 30th Anniverssary Tour, I think this new collection of songs gives them breath of fresh air. They get to sing some new stuff, just for fun, without the pressure of writing new material. For me, each number is fun, but I do have some favorites. THE SEEKER, for me, is one of the best half dozen or so WHO songs, but it never gets played anymore. Rush (and particularly Geddy on vocals) cover it brilliantly and faithfully. CROSSROADS is breezy and fun. SUMMERTIME BLUES, the same. I also really liked the unfamiliar SEVEN AND SEVEN IS. HEART FULL OF SOUL is not a song Rush could ever have written. I like hearing them… Read more
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THE WOUNDED LAND is a rich, and somewhat difficult book. It was certainly wonderful to return to the Land, but the book is by far the bleakest of the entire two trilogies. Donaldson clearly had to up the ante to make the book worth reading (and writing), so the despair that has befallen the Land is pretty dire. Also, even though we get to revisit Covenant, we are 4000 years in the future of the land, and all the beloved characters we came to know in the first trilogy are gone. Donaldson does manage a brief, ghostly appearance by some of them, but they are missed. After all, Covenant is aptly named an ANIT-hero, and he is tough to like. So Donaldson, while also showing us how horrible… Read more
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The best thing about the book is knowing that there are three more to come in the series! Although not undiluted classics like the Lonesome Dove sagas, these books are great if you enjoyed the westerns of McMurtry. The book has more farcical elements, particularly the outrageous Berrybender family: rich English gentry who come to America with all their servents, rent a paddleboat, and head up the Missouri for adventures amusing and tragic. And in the classic McMurtry way, often amusing and tragic at the same time. The stories contain McMurtry's usual breathtakingly callous attitude towards death. Important characters are dispatched left and right with scarcely a fanfare. I've always… Read more
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