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Post by Matthew the Swordsman on Mar 2, 2017 6:10:25 GMT
Just curious.
So far I've been re-reading a book titled Charlie Chaplin at Keystone & Essanay - Dawn of the Tramp, and I also read the June 1909 edition of the magazine Edison Phonograph Monthly.
How about you?
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Post by Squelchy on Mar 2, 2017 8:34:33 GMT
Half-way through Jane Smiley's The Greenlanders. Probably take me another 10-14 days.
Really enjoying it so far though.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 3, 2017 3:14:32 GMT
Just finishing up 'Setting the Stage' (The Vietnam Experience)and waiting for a book that I ordered on Angkor Wat and the Khmer culture, will fill the time and take another couple of chapters out of Will Durant's 'Age of Faith'.
That was a really good introductory history on the background of the Vietnam war, have realized that my understanding of the conflict was narrowly focused on the American involvement and the struggle over the full independence of Vietnam has been going on for thousands of years and this constant upheaval had to have a conclusion sometime in the 20th century.
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Post by mmexis on Mar 3, 2017 8:35:04 GMT
Either going to start reading "I carried you home" or "By Gaslight". Not decided yet.
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Post by Marv on Mar 3, 2017 19:08:16 GMT
Books are for women. Sexy, sultry women. Kiff, bring me as many books as you can find so that we may lure and seduce the women!
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Post by persephone on Mar 5, 2017 13:05:57 GMT
I just finished a Doctor Who Novel called "Touched by an Angel".I am planning to read is a novel that I borrowed from the Kindle lending library called "In the shadow of Lakecrest". It's a Gothic mystery.
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Post by mmexis on Mar 6, 2017 6:02:19 GMT
Actually am not reading either of the two books I mentioned earlier. Am reading one called "The Deep" by an author named Nick Cutter. It promises to be as gross as his other books. Yay!
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Post by darknessfish on Mar 6, 2017 16:42:42 GMT
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Post by Ass_E9 on Mar 6, 2017 22:32:48 GMT
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Post by Deleted on Mar 9, 2017 2:11:48 GMT
Been waiting for a couple of books that I ordered.
About halfway through the short-story anthology 'Futureshocks' this is a selection of shorts written in the 2000's and for the most part they are simply exploring Sci-fi themes that have already been addressed better by other authors but are trying to add their own clever-plot twists to them. Some are hits and some fail. Will casually pick it up over the month and finish it.
Just began reading the book 'Dark Star' by Alan Dean Foster, which is a novelization of the movie's screenplay by John Carpenter and Dan O'Bannon. Amusing so far about an oddball crew sent out on a long-range mission to clear rogue planets and stars out of the way for interstellar colonization until things start to go strange on them.
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Post by Lucy on Mar 11, 2017 5:59:45 GMT
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Post by poelzig on Mar 11, 2017 8:32:11 GMT
Started reading Under the Dome by Stephen King but put it aside for The Ripper's Shadow by Laura Joh Rowland. I was skeptical that yet another Jack the Ripper novel could interest me but it's actually very good so far. |
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Post by louise on Mar 11, 2017 12:26:39 GMT
reading Those Wonderful Rumours! By May smith - a diary she wrote during Ww2. Quite interesting.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 12, 2017 23:29:02 GMT
Finished 'Dark Star' by Alan Dean Foster. This book is the worst case of padding out a script that should be about 75 pages into 180 pages of tedium. Character makes a sandwich (2-4 pages) Character rummages around his luggage for something (3-4 pages) Character chases silly alien up and down the halls of spaceship (3-4 chapters) LOL there is a lesson in there somewhere. Mostly finished 'Futureshocks' was mostly a disappointment also. On the bright-side started reading the anthology 'The Colour Out Of Space' Tales of cosmic horror. The first short 'MS Found in a Bottle' by Edgar Allan Poe did alot to remind me of just what a great writer he was. Now looking forward to the other classic selections. hmmmm...still waiting on a couple of books that I ordered? must of been sent 15th class media mail or something.  come'on already  they have medication for that you know?  yes I know. |
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Post by Deleted on Mar 13, 2017 2:00:46 GMT
The Invisible Man (Wells) and then Of Mice and Men (Steinbeck).
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Post by Matthew the Swordsman on Mar 13, 2017 5:28:08 GMT
I recently read issue 23 (March 1902) edition of "The Phonogram", a magazine issued by Edison Records. The big announcement is the introduction of "Gold Moulded Records", which were indeed a very big deal. They lasted longer than previous cylinder records, and had better sound quality. The magazine is public domain and can be read here: archive.org/details/Phonogram23 |
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Post by animejunkie on Mar 14, 2017 8:19:57 GMT
About 30 pages into Stranger in a Strange Land by Robert Heinlein
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Post by SuperDevilDoctor on Mar 14, 2017 8:43:24 GMT
Doc Savage: Empire of Doom by Kenneth Robeson
War in the East: A Military History of the Russo-Turkish War, 1877-78 by Quintin Barry
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Post by Squelchy on Mar 14, 2017 12:08:05 GMT
Half-way through Jane Smiley's The Greenlanders. Probably take me another 10-14 days. Really enjoying it so far though. I thought that got kinda repetitive but it was also engaging and beautiful and tragic and exceptionally well written. Might be my favourite thing I've read in the last 3 or 4 years. Started The Knife of Never Letting Go by Patrick Ness this morning. I loved A Monster Calls, so figured I'd try some more of his. |
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Post by Carl LaFong on Mar 14, 2017 12:25:58 GMT
Half-way through Jane Smiley's The Greenlanders. Probably take me another 10-14 days. Really enjoying it so far though. I thought that got kinda repetitive but it was also engaging and beautiful and tragic and exceptionally well written. Might be my favourite thing I've read in the last 3 or 4 years. Started The Knife of Never Letting Go by Patrick Ness this morning. I loved A Monster Calls, so figured I'd try some more of his. Sounds good. I'm reading To Kill a Mockingbird for the first time. Enjoying it quite a bit. It's an e-book I ordered online from my library and I think it's going to disappear from my device before I finish it! Hopefully I can just re-order it for another two weeks. I'm a very slow reader. Finished John Fowles "The Collector" earlier this month. It was just OK. It's about a socially inadequate young man, who collects butterflies, who wins the football pools and buys a house so he can kidnap a young woman he's been obsessed with for several years. The woman doesn't even know he exists until she's kidnapped. There are two halves of the book, one written from the point of view of each of the two main characters. The young woman is clearly very intelligent and expounds her views on art, class, politics, love, sex and how life should be lived. Trouble is, she's a colossal snob - at least that's what I felt. Not sure if her thoughts are simply Fowles' own views on art, class, politics, sex etc. If so, he comes over as rather unlikelable! Still, it may come in handy as a "How to" manual! ;-) |
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come'on already 
they have medication for that you know? 
yes I know.
