<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif">Stainless Steel Rat was ok. I thought Red Shirts was very good (I like Scalzi's writing) and anything by Kurt Vonnegut is worth reading.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif"><br></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Sat, Mar 13, 2021 at 10:05 AM David Whitham <<a href="mailto:david@challengerconsulting.com">david@challengerconsulting.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">
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Impressed would definitely be overstating it, but there are some on there that might be worth looking deeper into the reviews. I liked Stainless Steel Rat by Harrison.</div>
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<b>Sent:</b> Saturday, March 13, 2021 9:56 AM<br>
<b>To:</b> NESFA Reading Group <<a href="mailto:reading-group@lists.nesfa.org" target="_blank">reading-group@lists.nesfa.org</a>><br>
<b>Subject:</b> [nesfa-reading-group] Bookbub’s List of (suposedly) High-larious books (suposedly) on a par with The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy</font>
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<div dir="auto">I’m not all that impressed with this list, but maybe you will be. <br>
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