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Post by poelzig on Oct 28, 2020 6:27:38 GMT
I Am Death by Chris Carter. Not the X-Files guy but the author Chris Carter. Oddly tho CC the author writes about serial killers. His hero Robert Hunter is a serial killer hunter. Sounds a bit obvious I know but they are solid thrillers if you don't mind a lot of violence and gore.
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Post by CrepedCrusader on Oct 29, 2020 4:51:55 GMT
A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens
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Post by darknessfish on Oct 30, 2020 8:59:43 GMT
A 700 page doorstop of a novel, and so far one of the best works I've read for absolutely ages. Hard to describe in a short summary, but it's kind of a three-layered bildungsroman following the lives and loves of three members of the same Australian family. One who happens to be a notorious murderer, famed across the land for killing famous sports cheats, the other two living in his shadow.
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Post by Zos on Nov 3, 2020 11:48:12 GMT
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Post by Marv on Nov 4, 2020 2:21:42 GMT
Still trucking thru Sherlock Holmes one short story at a time. And absolutely loving my first dip into Joe Abercrombie with The Blade Itself.
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Post by redhorizon on Nov 5, 2020 9:19:49 GMT
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Post by Feologild Oakes on Nov 5, 2020 9:22:14 GMT
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Post by CrepedCrusader on Nov 6, 2020 0:57:56 GMT
Moby Dick, by Herman Melville
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Post by Captain Spencer on Nov 6, 2020 5:09:04 GMT
The Plot by Irving Wallace
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Post by needysboy on Nov 6, 2020 23:44:47 GMT
I've been reading a bunch of old comics on Archive.org. archive.org/details/comicsI really like the horror ones and the Robin Hood ones.
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Post by Morgana on Nov 7, 2020 8:40:23 GMT
I've just started reading 'The Mystery of Three Quarters' by Sophie Hannah. It's a so-called new Hercule Poirot mystery. I'm a few chapters in and I keep finding myself thinking 'Agatha Christie, wouldn't have written that, or she would have put it better.' Of course it isn't as good as a Christie original but I have to try to withhold judgement, and stop comparing it, at least until I'm further in.
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Post by gspdude on Nov 7, 2020 16:39:45 GMT
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Post by yougotastewgoinbaby on Nov 8, 2020 3:20:35 GMT
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Post by yougotastewgoinbaby on Nov 9, 2020 5:29:52 GMT
Why do you hate America so, Commie? (seriously though, I'll be buying that now I know it exists) Oh, there's no hate for the good ol' US of A. I just enjoy perusing our failed attempts at spreading democracy abroad. I'm only about 50 pages into it, but it's definitely a good read on this little touched upon subject. Here's another great book about some of our half-assed excursions in the wider world:
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Post by hi224 on Nov 11, 2020 2:52:01 GMT
Good Morning, Midnight.
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Post by redhorizon on Nov 14, 2020 9:38:33 GMT
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Post by darknessfish on Nov 14, 2020 21:54:20 GMT
I really don't know enough about Chinese politics or history, but it seems an important enough topic to at least try reading about.
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Post by gspdude on Nov 17, 2020 14:08:59 GMT
After seeing just about every Dracula movie made, I'm finally getting around to the book.
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Post by Nalkarj on Nov 17, 2020 15:11:17 GMT
I finished Agatha Christie’s At Bertram’s Hotel (1965) the other day. (I’d started reading it years ago but never finished, for whatever reason.) It’s pretty great for the first 9/10, but (how’s this for uncharacteristic?) Christie doesn’t quite stick the landing. As always, Christie’s writing is as smooth as silk—she never gets enough credit in this regard—but what distinguishes this one is atmosphere. Christie develops a magnificent atmosphere of unease throughout, of too-good-to-be-true-ness, seemingly for no reason. At the same time, the characters are good, with Elvira Blake one of Christie’s most memorable and realistic young women since Evil Under the Sun’s Linda Marshall. Less good is the plot, which pretty much makes no sense. The final revelation comes out of nowhere and has no clues as far as I could tell. For all that the book is billed “A Miss Marple Mystery,” Miss Marple is largely irrelevant (the detective work is done by an interestingly characterized policeman, “Father” Davy, who I wish appeared in more Christies), and the story is less a mystery than a thriller. Perhaps realizing that she’s plotted herself into a corner, Christie attempts a double-twist solution that makes less and less sense as Marple and Davy explain it. The “time goes in one direction” point is a good one, and a great premise for a book, but Christie just can’t make it work here. And yet I enjoyed most of it, particularly the atmosphere-drawing. I’ve got to see the Geraldine McEwan TV adaptation, which no doubt changes much of the plot (as it should in this case). ______________________________ I’ve also been reading short-story collections by Ruth Rendell (Collected Stories) and Robert Aickman ( Compulsory Games). Aickman’s one of my favorite writers, so I have little to say about him except—read him! Compulsory Games isn’t the best collection—that would be The Wine-Dark Sea, which was recently reprinted—but it has a brilliant story, “No Time is Passing.” Aickman is better at replicating the feeling of a dream than any other author I know. I’ve read some of Rendell’s Collected Stories before, but not the whole thing. The collection has some amazing stories: “The Fallen Curtain,” “The Double,” “The Vinegar Mother,” “The Wrong Category.” The problem is I’d read all of those before! Several stories, particularly the Insp. Wexford shorts, I haven’t been able to get into. I’ve got to try a Rendell novel and another short-story collection one of these days.
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Post by Feologild Oakes on Nov 17, 2020 15:43:39 GMT
I am reading a book about Neanderthals
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