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Post by Deleted on Mar 31, 2020 11:54:01 GMT
What you reading?
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Post by Deleted on Mar 31, 2020 11:54:33 GMT
I'm getting stuck in to these... I like a good ghost story myself, but I also like things about nature and animals.  |
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Post by Carl LaFong on Mar 31, 2020 11:55:57 GMT
Nothing until last night when I picked up The End of the affair by Graham Greene two nights ago. I started it in January but only reached page 40 before I put it down a few weeks ago.
I'm not a big reader!
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Post by cypher on Mar 31, 2020 12:04:27 GMT
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Post by nutsberryfarm 🏜 on Mar 31, 2020 23:01:35 GMT
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Post by No_Socks_Here on Apr 1, 2020 2:22:11 GMT
I'm reading The Dark Tower series by, Stephen King. 8 volumes and several thousand pages, this will take some time and hopefully, by the time I've finished, all the virus bullshit will be through.
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Post by tristramshandy on Apr 1, 2020 2:58:36 GMT
Students' papers. An unending pile of students' papers.
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Post by TheSowIsMine on Apr 1, 2020 10:08:22 GMT
Starship Troopers by Robert Heinlein
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Post by Zos on Apr 1, 2020 10:12:53 GMT
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Post by Feologild Oakes on Apr 1, 2020 10:15:39 GMT
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Post by Zos on Apr 1, 2020 18:49:22 GMT
That looks good, if not terribly uplifting. I shall order it from my library when/if it ever reopens. Still on the first victim Polly Nichols, the author managed to get quite a bit of information from the coroner's reports at the time and uses other sources to fill in gaps on conditions etc in certain places. What is sad is that they are commonly perceived to have been prostitutes when there is hardly no evidence that they were. Just women fallen on hard times in and out of the poorhouse. Well worth a read so far.
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Post by screamingtreefrogs on Apr 1, 2020 19:03:03 GMT
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Post by Jep Gambardella on Apr 1, 2020 19:16:45 GMT
Just started this one. I thought it would be appropriate.
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Post by TheGoodMan19 on Apr 1, 2020 20:08:50 GMT
I'm reading The Dark Tower series by, Stephen King. 8 volumes and several thousand pages, this will take some time and hopefully, by the time I've finished, all the virus bullshit will be through. My all time fiction.
Hope you like the ending. The Man in Black fled across the desert and the Gunslinger followed
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Post by TheGoodMan19 on Apr 1, 2020 20:14:03 GMT
 Four part history of WWI on the Eastern Front. I'd need to be quarantined to finish |
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Post by screamingtreefrogs on Apr 1, 2020 20:19:47 GMT
I think I have a form of A.D.D./A.D.H.D but have never been diagnosed.
I'm typically reading multiple books at once - sometimes I don't finish and start a new one
But - I'm reading this again - it's a quick read - found it at a flea market years upon years ago without the bookcover - it's all black - which lends to it's eerieness -
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Post by orlandogardner on Apr 1, 2020 20:53:52 GMT
I'm reading The Dark Tower series by, Stephen King. 8 volumes and several thousand pages, this will take some time and hopefully, by the time I've finished, all the virus bullshit will be through. Are you generally a big SK reader? I think you'd have to read his early stuff pretty extensively to get the most from TDT series. I really liked it but it starkly exposes his weaknesses though. He just doesn't know when to stop writing sometimes and this being his opus he lays it on pretty heavily. Every idea makes it onto the page. I'd read just about everything he did up until Bag of Bones and loved a lot of it. I found though anything after that very hard to get into, his self-indulgences seemed to have increased as he has gotten older. Is there any of his new stuff that you'd recommend? Anyhoo, I'm finding it pretty hard to concentrate on anything too dense at the moment so, just finished:  Pretty decent, atmospheric, and unique take on the vampire genre. Deffo worth a read if you like Martin. Just started:  I've read one of his other books (61 Hours) and didn't think much of it. But a mate recommended the earlier Jack Reacher novels so I said I'd have a pop. As I said above, concentration is a little shot atm so something like this is just about all I can manage. Lean plot, straightforward characters, not much in the way of subtext etc to get in the way. It's alright.
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Post by Feologild Oakes on Apr 1, 2020 22:13:13 GMT
Four part history of WWI on the Eastern Front. I'd need to be quarantined to finish Those books are really good in my opinion.
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Post by TheGoodMan19 on Apr 1, 2020 22:41:42 GMT
Four part history of WWI on the Eastern Front. I'd need to be quarantined to finish Those books are really good in my opinion. His books on WWII are amazing. he's a great author.
For those who don't know, Prit Buttar was a GP in Britain. One of his patients told him stories about her times as a nurse in East Prussia during the World Wars and the Russian Civil War. He became fascinated, read all he could and started writing books about the Wars in the East. Probably my favorite author of the period, with Max Hastings and David Glantz.
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Post by FrankSobotka1514 on Apr 1, 2020 22:49:27 GMT
I'm reading The Dark Tower series by, Stephen King. 8 volumes and several thousand pages, this will take some time and hopefully, by the time I've finished, all the virus bullshit will be through. Are you generally a big SK reader? I think you'd have to read his early stuff pretty extensively to get the most from TDT series. I really liked it but it starkly exposes his weaknesses though. He just doesn't know when to stop writing sometimes and this being his opus he lays it on pretty heavily. Every idea makes it onto the page. I'd read just about everything he did up until Bag of Bones and loved a lot of it. I found though anything after that very hard to get into, his self-indulgences seemed to have increased as he has gotten older. Is there any of his new stuff that you'd recommend? Anyhoo, I'm finding it pretty hard to concentrate on anything too dense at the moment so, just finished: Pretty decent, atmospheric, and unique take on the vampire genre. Deffo worth a read if you like Martin. Just started: I've read one of his other books (61 Hours) and didn't think much of it. But a mate recommended the earlier Jack Reacher novels so I said I'd have a pop. As I said above, concentration is a little shot atm so something like this is just about all I can manage. Lean plot, straightforward characters, not much in the way of subtext etc to get in the way. It's alright. The first 5 Jack Reacher books are fairly entertaining, didn’t like any of the ones I read after that. If you read the books there is no way you’ll imagine Tom Cruise. Reacher is like 6’5 240 or something. I tried to read the Dark Tower books but could not get into them. I made it through 3 book and gave up. I like that genre of fiction but his didn’t work for me. |
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