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Post by Archelaus on Jun 21, 2021 18:05:25 GMT
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Post by vegalyra on Jun 28, 2021 23:58:16 GMT
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Post by yougotastewgoinbaby on Jun 29, 2021 2:48:18 GMT
Reconstruction: America’s unfinished revolution, by Eric Foner
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Post by Zos on Jun 30, 2021 8:22:14 GMT
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Post by nutsberryfarm 🏜 on Jul 1, 2021 1:07:02 GMT
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Post by vegalyra on Jul 1, 2021 13:32:11 GMT
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Post by Ass_E9 on Jul 3, 2021 3:51:16 GMT
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Post by theravenking on Jul 4, 2021 13:29:59 GMT
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Post by Captain Spencer on Jul 5, 2021 2:50:41 GMT
Officer Of The Court by Lelia Kelly I'll be starting on this legal thriller tonight.
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Post by mmexis on Jul 7, 2021 2:09:34 GMT
School is done (for now). Want something mindless before I read something "professional"
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Post by nutsberryfarm 🏜 on Jul 15, 2021 14:42:23 GMT
cool cali surf noir
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Post by Feologild Oakes on Jul 15, 2021 19:07:37 GMT
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Post by vegalyra on Jul 15, 2021 20:53:16 GMT
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Post by Nalkarj on Jul 19, 2021 2:20:41 GMT
Just finished Nelson DeMille’s Plum Island (1997). Big disappointment. DeMille’s not an especially great writer, but he kept me turning pages, and I wasn’t bothered by his prose the way I am with some modern thriller writers. At least based on this book, DeMille is an old-school mystery writer masquerading as a thriller writer: He even has his detective tabulate clues halfway through. And those clues are the best kind—clues of character, inconsistencies that simply don’t make sense. That tabulation of clues lets the detective and the reader deduce the motive, which is a great paradigm-shift moment, an “Oh, of course!”—the best thing about detective stories, in my opinion. Despite that, the book doesn’t work as a whole, unfortunately. The elements aren’t integrated well enough, and the titular Plum Island—a very real, very secretive animal research laboratory off the coast of Long Island—is basically a red herring. That’s a far cry from the Golden Age mystery writers, for whom revealing a major plot element as a red herring was bad form. And in a major mistake, DeMille reveals the unsurprising killer about 100 pages before the end. I kept waiting for a twist (the person I pegged as killer would’ve been much more surprising, lemme tell ya), but nuffin’. Just 100 pages of the hero tracking down the villain. Should I have expected this? Maybe, but DeMille had that great paradigm shift in the middle. In other words, he tried harder than most modern thriller writers, damn it. Length unbecoming of material is DeMille’s primary flaw here. The book fits 300 pages worth of plot and character into 500 pages. To DeMille’s credit, the book went by very fast, and I was never bored. Fact remains, though, big chunks of this book could and should have been cut. Speaking of which, whatever happened to concision as a virtue? One more thing (so much for my “concision” crack): The protagonist is annoying and most of the other characters colorless. The only character I liked, and I really did like her, gets “ fridged” just before the end. Double damn it, DeMille!
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Post by nutsberryfarm 🏜 on Jul 19, 2021 17:03:49 GMT
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Post by mstreepsucks on Jul 21, 2021 19:15:17 GMT
I'm a ... reading some collections of short stories ray bradbury. Because who knows they might be even better than the ray bradbury theater show.
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Post by Marv on Jul 21, 2021 22:00:37 GMT
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Post by yougotastewgoinbaby on Jul 23, 2021 5:15:30 GMT
"Enemies: A History of the FBI" by Tim Weiner
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Post by gspdude on Jul 23, 2021 13:37:17 GMT
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Post by yougotastewgoinbaby on Jul 24, 2021 3:07:50 GMT
lol, that author’s name is too close to David Foster Wallace…it’s disturbing to me.
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