I read the Project Gutenberg e-book edition. Which did not include the Appendix that the author wrote many years later. I didn't get very excited by this Edwardian romance. Some parts were good, some clever, some even funny. But mostly not.
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Chapter III: Music, Violets, and the Letter “S”
“She oughtn’t really to go at all,” said Mr. Beebe, as they watched her from the window, “and she knows it. I put it down to too much Beethoven.”
First book of the Marc and George trilogy, I guess. Marc (and George) is kidnapped by aliens to be sold as slaves or something. They escape in volume one. George is a dog, by the way, who can talk, thanks to said aliens. LATER: It's called the Taken trilogy.
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Bunyanesque lengths of amputated oak crackled for attention within the Stygian depths of a corner fireplace fashioned of hand-laid river rock.
A small expedition of scientists go to the mysterious "disappearing" title planet to see what is up, and make some startling discoveries. Unfortunately, they are marooned there.
A Pip & Flinx adventure. Flinx goes on vacation, ends up on a planet getting bonked on the head and losing his memory. Not a bad little story. A weep near the end.
Second book in the Taken Trilogy, Marcus becomes a chef, gets a crush on an alien chick, is named military boss, is captured, un-captured, and zooms away towards the third book. I SWEAR I read this book before, but it is not in the data base. Apparently didn't make enough impression on me to start sounding familiar until page 85.
A vet cares for wildlife that is injured, and starts the Northwoods Wildlife Hospital And Rehabilitation Center in Wisconsin. He passed away from ALS two years after the books was published, in 1987. Which was three years before we bought it. I also found out that he, his partner, and his brother started a very successful pet supplies business, which continues to this day.
Jake is suspended from college for drinking, and decides to get a job at the "steel mill" his father and grandfather worked at. He meets men of a much different background than he, and learns a bit about how the world really is before he goes back to college. I enjoyed reading this novel, but I kept projecting myself into the Jake character, except Jake is rather smarter than I am!