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Title: Keep Reading!
Review: The biggest problem with this novel is that you have to stop laughing long enough to think.Having read all of Connie Willis's solo novels, I unquestionably consider _To Say Nothing of the Dog_ her masterwork thus far. She has fully developed her endearing style, using the very tone of her writing to advance the story. All the disparate "details" harmonize in unimaginable combinations, flung from one end to the other, united in spite of their oddity.Please note that you CANNOT glean everything this book contains in a single reading. Its nonlinear chronology guarantees that fact. Even so, the balance between the narrator's ordinary motion forward in time, his and other characters' jumping about through history, and the mind-numbing ramifications of entering the past make for the most carefully designed "theory" of time travel I have seen in science fiction.Enjoy this novel thoroughly, but be watchful for its staggering yet subtle message.
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