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Post by Matthew the Swordsman on Jan 2, 2018 7:48:22 GMT
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Post by Matthew the Swordsman on Jan 2, 2018 7:50:45 GMT
I just finished issue 23 of the home computer magazine The Home Computer Course, published 1984. Fun. There's a review of the Sinclair QL computer (which did not turn out to be a hit), among other things. A digitised copy of the magazine can be found online with a bit of searching....
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Post by Matthew the Swordsman on Jan 2, 2018 10:39:40 GMT
I just finished the December 1909 issue of Edison Phonograph Monthly, a magazine issued to dealers and jobbers of Edison records and record players. A lot of fun to read. Delightfully dated. It is public domain and can be found online with a little searching.....
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Post by politicidal on Jan 2, 2018 19:45:41 GMT
The Beasts of Tarzan by Edgar Rice Burroughs and The Hunters by Chris Kuzneski.
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Post by Raimo47 on Jan 2, 2018 21:47:02 GMT
Lucid Dreaming: Gateway to the Inner Self by Robert Waggoner, and I'm also rereading Christine by Stephen King.
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Post by karryon99v2 on Jan 3, 2018 5:13:45 GMT
Murder on the Toy Town Express (Vintage Toyshop Mystery #2)
by Barbara Early
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Post by Captain Spencer on Jan 3, 2018 17:31:53 GMT
In the middle of reading The Twenty Three, the final book of the Promise Falls trilogy by Linwood Barclay.
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Post by mmexis on Jan 4, 2018 3:33:53 GMT
@dramatic look gopher, how is that trilogy? Would you recommend?
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Post by Captain Spencer on Jan 4, 2018 4:23:34 GMT
@dramatic look gopher, how is that trilogy? Would you recommend? I'm enjoying the Promise Falls trilogy very much. Highly recommended if you like mystery thrillers. I've been reading all three books back-to-back, and I suggest you do the same if you want to get into them. |
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Post by Deleted on Jan 4, 2018 9:17:27 GMT
The Name of the Rose by Umberto Eco
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Post by twothousandonemark on Jan 4, 2018 16:22:14 GMT
Just wrapped up 99 Stories of the Game by Wayne Gretzky.
Diving into LOTR:FOTR. Gonna alternate LOTR in between non-fiction reads this year.
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Post by darknessfish on Jan 4, 2018 21:40:09 GMT
Paul Auster - 4 3 2 1
It's a bit of a monster, so I don't think I'll be contributing here again until the February version of this thread, at the earliest.
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Post by Chalice_Of_Evil on Jan 5, 2018 10:12:00 GMT
The Girl Who Kicked the Hornets' Nest by Stieg Larsson.  |
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Post by Matthew the Swordsman on Jan 7, 2018 6:07:54 GMT
Just read the January 1910 edition of magazine Edison Phonograph Monthly. 108 years later, it provides insight into the early days of the record industry, albeit from the often biased corporate standpoint of the Edison label. The list of new records for the month is interesting, I believe this is the earliest issue to mention records by an African-American artist (specifically, a group called Polk Miller and his Old South Quartette. Miller was white, but the quartet accompanying him were African-American. Perhaps a very early example of a racially integrated music group? Miller has a page on Wikipedia so he's not completely forgotten). The magazine is public domain (copyright expired). The Library of Congress printed a compilation of the 1910 editions of the magazine back in 1983, and have uploaded to the Internet Archive: archive.org/details/edisonphonograph08moor |
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Post by dougb on Jan 7, 2018 14:20:09 GMT
The Name of the Rose by Umberto Eco Have you read his Foucault's pendulum yet? Loved that book when I was younger. Have to try it again someday. |
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Post by Deleted on Jan 7, 2018 15:05:21 GMT
The Name of the Rose by Umberto Eco Have you read his Foucault's pendulum yet? Loved that book when I was younger. Have to try it again someday. No i have not |
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Post by Deleted on Jan 8, 2018 21:32:37 GMT
Thrawn, then Leia, then back to non-SW books finally.
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Post by chefmacabre on Jan 9, 2018 4:09:26 GMT
Currently reading:
“Cabinet of Curiosities: My Notebooks, Collections, and Other Obsessions” by Guillermo Del Toro & Marc Scott Zicree”
“The Friends of Eddie Coyle” by George V. Higgins
“Mastery” by Robert Greene
And just started “Exit Strategy” by Steve Hamilton
I gotta stop reading multiple books simultaneously.
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Post by yougotastewgoinbaby on Jan 9, 2018 4:22:56 GMT
I finished ‘The Brothers Karamazov’ and now I am reading ‘The Reivers’ by Faulkner. After that, I’ll probably read either ‘Blood Meridian’ by Cormac McCarthy or a book about the History of Israel.
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Post by darknessfish on Jan 9, 2018 9:28:42 GMT
The Name of the Rose by Umberto Eco Have you read his Foucault's pendulum yet? Loved that book when I was younger. Have to try it again someday. Two of my favourite books, though I seem to have a predilection for novels which have a strong religious theme running through them, for some reason. If you do like both of those (and why wouldn't you), I also strongly recommend Luther Blisset's Q, which travels a similar path, with similar excellence. |
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