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Boots!

Where would we be without boos?

Where would we be without good?

No, Zendberg.

It's a rhetorical question, sir.

But where would we be without books?

From KCRW and KCRW.com, I'm Michael Silverblatt.

This is Bookworm.

I have with me the author who on his book covers is called B. Catling, whose name is Brian Catling.

He is the author most well known for a trilogy of books.

They are remarkable.

They have been called fantasy by people who write and read fantasy, like Alan Moore,

but they're no more fantasy than you and I are fantastic,

although perhaps we are.

I'm a very lucky bookworm because over the many years I've had very

valuable assistance, one of whom Anthony Miller recommended a book called the V-O-R-R-H.

I must tell you, I resisted it.

Flannery O'Connor said that she didn't like things that looked funny on the page.

I don't like words that look like they're not in my language if they're not in some other.

So The Vor sat on my shelf. It was not in some other. So the Vore sat on my shelf.

It was published first in England.

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