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I read this book about 1-Jan-2002. This is the first time I've read this book. The book is copyright 1941, 1965. This note was last modified Thursday, 19-Dec-2002 16:31:42 PST.
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This note contains spoilers for the book.
I'm reading this very slowly, as it turns out. It's too big to carry around much at all. And while it's my first read of this book, I've encountered a number of the stories before. I'm not sure I'm going to be able to make any coherent comments, and I don't think I'm going to talk about stories individually.
Finally finished reading the book in August 2002.
The stories have definite similarities. He writes a clear, distant, view of characters. Emotions aren't a major factor for them. Sometimes I rather like that. There's also a set of stories all about prisoners or subject populations outwitting their captors, which are rather neat. I understand Russell worked with Ian Fleming during WWII planning dirty tricks and such, and that these may be things they didn't let him use for real.