Teaser Tuesday (28 November)

Teaser Tuesday is a weekly bookish meme, hosted at The Purple Booker.

Anyone can play along by doing the following:

• Grab your current read
• Open to a random page
• Share two (2) “teaser” sentences from somewhere on that page
• BE CAREFUL NOT TO INCLUDE SPOILERS! (make sure that what you share doesn’t give too much away! You don’t want to ruin the book for others!)
• Share the title & author, too, so that other TT participants can add the book to their TBR Lists if they like your teasers!

Seeing him brought in, has, I think, saved me from losing my mind; for that I do not thank him-sanity, after all is only reason applied to human affairs, and when this reason, applied over years, has resulted in disaster, destruction, despair, misery, starvation, and rot, the mind is correct to abandon it.This decision to discard reason, I see now, is not the last but the first reasonable act; and this insanity we are taught to fear consists in nothing but responding naturally and instinctively rather than with the culturally acquired, mannered thing called reason; an insane man talks nonsense because like a bird or a cat he is too sensible to talk sense.” 

(~ The Fifth Head of Cerberus by Gene Wolfe, Kindle Edition, 1997)

[Both a novella and a story set of multiple works, this is one fascinating reading of speculative fiction… there are not enough words of praise. This is my third time, and I still discover details. Amazing!]

PLEASE LEAVE A COMMENT with either the link to your own Teaser Tuesdays’ post, or share your ‘teasers’ in a comment here and/or in The Purple Booker.

16 Comments

  1. sjhigbee

    Ah… this is an offering of his I haven’t yet had the pleasure of reading. Thank you for sharing, Steph – I need to track this one down:). My TT offering this week is a prescient mage in a bind… https://sjhigbee.wordpress.com/2017/11/28/teaser-tuesday-28th-november-2017/

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    1. Steph P. Bianchini (Post author)

      Yes, definitively. A true classic, amazingly written!

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      1. sjhigbee

        His work usually is…:)

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        1. Steph P. Bianchini (Post author)

          Indeed 🙂

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  2. fuonlyknew

    You know you’ve found a winner when you read it over and over:)

    My TT from Ring In The Year With Murder

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    1. Steph P. Bianchini (Post author)

      You’re *so* right! 🙂

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  3. Tammy

    I love books that you go back to again and again, love the teaser!

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    1. Steph P. Bianchini (Post author)

      Thanks Tammy -if you haven’t read it yet, I strongly recommend it.

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  4. Kathy Martin

    Interesting teaser. Mine is science fiction too. My book this week is The End of All Things by John Scalzi from my TBR mountain. Happy reading!

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    1. Steph P. Bianchini (Post author)

      Thanks Kathy, I keep hearing about that book. 🙂

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  5. ljennison

    Good teaser! Thanks for sharing something that you enjoy so much. My Teaser is from a new to me book, The Noticer.

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    1. Steph P. Bianchini (Post author)

      Thanks, going to get a look 🙂

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  6. @lynnsbooks

    Great teaser. And, it’s so good that you’re reading this for the third time and yet still picking up new things.
    Lynn 😀

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    1. Steph P. Bianchini (Post author)

      Yes, it is an amazing reading -Gene Wolfe deserves to be on *any* reading list, not just spec fic 🙂

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  7. Sherry Fundin

    Love the tease. I read it twice. 🙂 The cover has an old time feel about it.
    sherry @ fundinmental My TT

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    1. Steph P. Bianchini (Post author)

      Yes, and the book is a true classic!

      Reply

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