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Post by Jep Gambardella on Oct 17, 2019 12:15:02 GMT
I was reading this one: but then this one that I had reserved at the library became available, so I switched to it.
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Post by CoolJGS☺ on Oct 17, 2019 18:55:45 GMT
Just finished A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms.
Pretty decent.
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Post by Feologild Oakes on Oct 17, 2019 19:05:35 GMT
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Post by politicidal on Oct 19, 2019 16:31:22 GMT
Pirates, smugglers, and eco-warriors, oh my!
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Post by wickedkittiesmom on Oct 19, 2019 19:29:33 GMT
"Now You See Them" by Elly Griffiths the 5th book in the Brighton Mysteries (formerly the Magic Men series)I bought it on Amazon UK so I don't know when it will be published for the U.S., I also love her Ruth Galloway series.
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Post by Prime etc. on Oct 20, 2019 20:37:30 GMT
The Shadow Over Innsmouth
I think I read it before but only remember the fish-man bus driver.
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Post by OldSamVimes on Oct 21, 2019 11:26:38 GMT
Reading 'Moby Dick' right now.
Very entertaining.
..just might become a classic someday!
Also reading 'Hungry Ghosts: Mao's Secret Famine'. Heavy stuff. Whole chapter on cannibalism.
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Post by marco26 on Oct 21, 2019 17:53:47 GMT
Reading 'Moby Dick' right now. Very entertaining. ..just might become a classic someday! Would have been better if they made it about a shark. Peter Benchley knew that.
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Post by OldSamVimes on Oct 22, 2019 15:14:46 GMT
Reading 'Moby Dick' right now. Very entertaining. ..just might become a classic someday! Would have been better if they made it about a shark. Peter Benchley knew that. I'm not sure. A shark is terrifying but doesn't have the same mystique as a leviathan from the depths.
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Post by marco26 on Oct 22, 2019 16:05:18 GMT
Would have been better if they made it about a shark. Peter Benchley knew that. I'm not sure. A shark is terrifying but doesn't have the same mystique as a leviathan from the depths. Man, I was clearly making a joke. However... A shark does have mystique about it. A creature on Earth still in existence from the age of the dinosaurs...a creature that is a known man-killer (a whale is not that), the sight of a dorsal fin moving through the water... Much mystique to a Great White shark. Benchley admitted when he wrote "Jaws" he was just trying to do a version of "Moby Dick." His Ahab is Quint (Quint's death is exactly the same), his whale is a shark. I never realized how much "Jaws" is similar to "Moby Dick" until I read Melville's masterpiece.
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Post by OldSamVimes on Oct 22, 2019 20:33:05 GMT
I'm not sure. A shark is terrifying but doesn't have the same mystique as a leviathan from the depths. Man, I was clearly making a joke. However... A shark does have mystique about it. A creature on Earth still in existence from the age of the dinosaurs...a creature that is a known man-killer (a whale is not that), the sight of a dorsal fin moving through the water... Much mystique to a Great White shark. Benchley admitted when he wrote "Jaws" he was just trying to do a version of "Moby Dick." His Ahab is Quint (Quint's death is exactly the same), his whale is a shark. I never realized how much "Jaws" is similar to "Moby Dick" until I read Melville's masterpiece. Sorry bro. Sometimes I'm just in 'automatic mode'. Interesting though, I'll remember Jaws as I keep reading. Hope you didn't just spoil some major shit for me... I guess now I know Captain Ahab is gonna die?
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Post by marco26 on Oct 22, 2019 20:39:37 GMT
Interesting though, I'll remember Jaws as I keep reading. Hope you didn't just spoil some major shit for me... I guess now I know Captain Ahab is gonna die? Now you're the one joking, right?
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Post by OldSamVimes on Oct 22, 2019 20:46:19 GMT
Interesting though, I'll remember Jaws as I keep reading. Hope you didn't just spoil some major shit for me... I guess now I know Captain Ahab is gonna die? Now you're the one joking, right? ..partly. It's not like I can be mad about a spoiler in a book this old. But alas it's true.. I did not know. LOL
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Post by marco26 on Oct 22, 2019 21:01:34 GMT
Now you're the one joking, right? ..partly. It's not like I can be mad about a spoiler in a book this old. But alas it's true.. I did not know. LOL Look, I'm not going to spoil the book for you either way...but there are some works of art where you know what happens even if you've never read or seen it. There are people who have never seen KING KONG, but I guarantee you they know that the big guy climbed to the top of the Empire State Building. "Romeo And Juliet"? I guarantee you that people know the ending to that without having read it. The ending of "Moby Dick" is not written for shock value. "Moby Dick" isn't a "Game Of Thrones" book, you know. I will say this -- the end of "Moby Dick" achieves a level of brilliance never before reached in literature. It is utterly astonishing. When I finished the last sentence of that book I put the book down and literally said, "Holy shit." True story. Just curious, are you aware of what is called the "interstitial chapters" in "Moby Dick"?
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Post by CrepedCrusader on Oct 23, 2019 2:56:27 GMT
Flowers for Algernon.
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Post by darknessfish on Oct 24, 2019 14:13:54 GMT
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Post by sadsaak on Oct 25, 2019 13:25:17 GMT
"England, Arise!" by Judith Baker.
It is about the peasants' revolt of 1381 and is very well written and with such detailed research that I am not really that much better informed than before. But like all Ms Baker's book, well worth reading
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Post by CrepedCrusader on Oct 28, 2019 13:28:37 GMT
Re-reading Sironia, Texas. It's 1,700 pages, so it's going to take me a while.
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Post by Feologild Oakes on Oct 28, 2019 16:55:21 GMT
I am re-reading the 8 volume biography series about the Norwegian King and Queen, Haakon VII (1872-1957) and Maud (1868-1938) by Tor Bomann-LARSEN Well i am re-reading 7 of them, the 8 volum will be released now at the end of October and i have ordered
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Post by wickedkittiesmom on Oct 28, 2019 19:09:09 GMT
I just started reading The Halloween Host by S.M. Barrett, its a fun read for the season, its Like Dicken's The Christmas Carol but instead Arthur Brim (the "Scroogelike character) is visited by otherworldly members of the October Senate. This is a book for people who love Halloween, like me. I will probably finish it tonight or tomorrow morning.
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