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Redshirts surprised me. I was expecting a nifty read, yes, but I wasn’t expecting thought-provoking questions about the nature of good writing and on finding meaning in life. A week after finishing it, I’m still turning over that second coda in my mind.
I followed that up with Duane Swierczynski’s Fun and Games. Ex-cop Charlie Hardie, now a down-on-his-luck house sitter arrives at his next gig and finds a down-on-her-luck starlet hiding out from “them,” a group of nearly unstoppable killers who have her in their sights. Thinking that Charlie is one of “them,” she attacks him, and things go downhill for both of them from there. A slightly difficult to swallow core premise is the only sour note in this fast-paced and witty thriller.
I’m currently reading “A War Like No Other: How the Athenians and Spartans Fought the Peloponnesian War.”