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Post by Prime etc. on Aug 20, 2019 23:45:58 GMT
JAWS
The great fish moved silently through the night water, propelled by short sweeps of its crescent tail. The mouth was open just enough to permit a rush of water over the gills. There was little other motion: an occasional correction of the apparently aimless course by the slight raising or lowering of a pectoral fin --as a bird changes direction by dipping one wing and lifting the other. The eyes were sightless in the black, and the other senses transmitted nothing extraordinary to the small, primitive brain. The fish might have been asleep, Save for the movement dictated by countless millions of years of instinctive continuity: lacking the flotation bladder common to other fish and the fluttering flaps to push oxygen-bearing water through its gills, it survived only by moving. Once stopped, it would sink to the bottom and die of anoxia. The land seemed almost as dark as the water, for there was no moon.
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Post by moviebuffbrad on Aug 21, 2019 0:30:29 GMT
Catch 22. It was my grandmother's favorite book, finally getting around to it.
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Post by vegalyra on Aug 21, 2019 19:09:04 GMT
Reading this series. Granted some of the information and conclusions in the book is out of date, but Leonard Cottrell really knows how to bring to life the ancient cultures. It's definitely not dry reading.
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Post by Prime etc. on Aug 21, 2019 21:16:48 GMT
"I can't be sure," said Brody. "Offhand, I'd say she was attacked by a shark."
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Post by Carl LaFong on Aug 21, 2019 23:08:17 GMT
Reading this series. Granted some of the information and conclusions in the book is out of date, but Leonard Cottrell really knows how to bring to life the ancient cultures. It's definitely not dry reading. I read that initially as the Penguin World of Lost Books!
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Post by wickedkittiesmom on Aug 21, 2019 23:31:45 GMT
I've just started 2 books: The Martian by Andy Weir (I enjoyed the movie) and D=Day Girls by Sarah Rose (about female spies during WW2).
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Post by Morgana on Aug 22, 2019 9:16:18 GMT
Reading this series. Granted some of the information and conclusions in the book is out of date, but Leonard Cottrell really knows how to bring to life the ancient cultures. It's definitely not dry reading. If you like ancient history, you should watch Michael Wood's documentaries on different ancient civilizations.
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Post by Jep Gambardella on Aug 23, 2019 15:51:39 GMT
I've just started 2 books: The Martian by Andy Weir (I enjoyed the movie) and D=Day Girls by Sarah Rose (about female spies during WW2).
I read "The Martian" before the movie came out and liked it a lot. I also enjoyed Andy Weir's second book, "Artemis", which will probably also be made into a movie before long.
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Post by Jep Gambardella on Aug 23, 2019 16:10:44 GMT
I wanted something quick so I started on a Harlan Coben book I had on my tablet - "Six Years". It follows the same basic pattern of all Harlan Coben books I've read (which must be at least five by now): a secret from the past resurfaces, putting the protagonist's life or family in danger.
Not great prose or anything but damn it if it isn't entertaining!
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Post by CrepedCrusader on Aug 26, 2019 16:48:35 GMT
After focusing on reading a batch of Alice Munro short stories, I'm now reading White Crocodile, by K.T. Medina.
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Post by Prime etc. on Aug 27, 2019 0:42:10 GMT
"What do you say to that?" said Brody. "Are you such a hotshot you can fuck a lesbian?" Hooper's mind cleared quickly, and he said, "No. I didn't find it out until... until it was too late."
"I see your cock, you bastard!" cried Quint, and he threw a second iron, leaning his shoulder and back into the throw.
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Post by mmexis on Aug 27, 2019 6:26:12 GMT
quite good, actually. Very urban, very Scarborough/Toronto.
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Post by Prime etc. on Aug 28, 2019 3:24:25 GMT
The Curse of Capistrano--first Zorro story--100 anniversary this month.
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Post by darknessfish on Aug 30, 2019 8:43:46 GMT
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Post by jackspicer on Aug 30, 2019 21:20:40 GMT
Jurassic Park by Michael Crichton. This is one of the few occasions when I'd say I prefer the movie.
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Post by nutsberryfarm π on Aug 31, 2019 0:13:45 GMT
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Post by Prime etc. on Aug 31, 2019 0:34:02 GMT
Jurassic Park by Michael Crichton. This is one of the few occasions when I'd say I prefer the movie. The cgi was better in the movie than in the book!
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Post by OldSamVimes on Aug 31, 2019 1:57:29 GMT
"A Confederacy of Dunces" -- John Kennedy Toole Hilarious so far. Love that novel. I finally got around to looking him up on Wikipedia. ..nowadays he'd be called a racist.
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Post by louise on Sept 1, 2019 15:23:56 GMT
Transcription by Kate Atkinson. And Hamlet, Revenge, by Michael Innes. Both quite good.
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Post by hi224 on Sept 1, 2019 22:54:17 GMT
A time To Die Speak
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