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dustydigger
Posted 2020-02-12 9:29 AM (#21800 - in reply to #21614)
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Location: UK		Rogue Moon was a bit of an oddity,with its mix of a mystery BDO (big dumb object) with a sort of psychological drama about some rather nasty escapees from a film noir.Cant remember the reference exactly,but one stern critic of the novel Double Indemnity said at the time that he felt he needed a shower after reading it to sluice away all the nasty stuff! lol.There wasabit of that with this book.
I was picturing Barbara Stanwyck as the daredevil risktaking Barker's femme fatale ladyfriend.But for some reason I kept seeing Daniel Craig in the Lara Croft films as Barker. All that stilted conversation was a bit heavy going,but I loved the final 30 pages when we final got inside the Big Dumb Object on the moon,and learned more about the project. We never did crack the strange object mysteries at all,and I wondered if all the deaths as they attempted to work through the object were worth it. Pretty downbeat ending too,but for the most part I still found the book quite enjoyable,despite the testosterone fumes. And loved the inside of the BDO!
And allthis.with long conversations and deep philosophicalmusings,was achieved within 180 pages!

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