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Post by Ass_E9 on Jan 30, 2022 1:02:06 GMT
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Post by theravenking on Jan 30, 2022 22:40:05 GMT
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Post by Captain Spencer on Feb 1, 2022 4:00:43 GMT
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Post by mstreepsucks on Feb 1, 2022 8:38:31 GMT
I'm reading this: The golden apples of the sun. By ray bradbury. But why?
Because it seems inevitable that in every man's life, that he would eventually read this collection of short stories. Why? Because it just seems logical, in that way.
If you only like to read books my male authors, like I do, then it makes perfect sense.
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Post by thekindercarebear on Feb 2, 2022 5:45:31 GMT
damn fine reading for vampire fluff.
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Post by Feologild Oakes on Feb 4, 2022 11:04:39 GMT
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Post by thekindercarebear on Feb 4, 2022 23:09:47 GMT
I'm reading this: The golden apples of the sun. By ray bradbury. But why? Because it seems inevitable that in every man's life, that he would eventually read this collection of short stories. Why? Because it just seems logical, in that way. If you only like to read books my male authors, like I do, then it makes perfect sense. Heh that's my old user name. 🥳 Fantastic book.
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Post by Raimo47 on Feb 8, 2022 0:38:18 GMT
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Post by thekindercarebear on Feb 11, 2022 0:51:02 GMT
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Post by SuperDevilDoctor on Feb 11, 2022 2:37:53 GMT
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Post by CrepedCrusader on Feb 12, 2022 4:25:35 GMT
Great Expectations by Charles Dickens
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Post by Feologild Oakes on Feb 12, 2022 10:39:04 GMT
Its Fire & Blood i am reading the Norwegian translation of the book.
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Post by CrepedCrusader on Feb 12, 2022 18:13:41 GMT
Its Fire & Blood i am reading the Norwegian translation of the book. I really enjoyed that one, even if I was a bit angry that George put off work in the final two Song of Ice & Fire books to write it.
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Post by Feologild Oakes on Feb 12, 2022 19:18:00 GMT
Its Fire & Blood i am reading the Norwegian translation of the book. I really enjoyed that one, even if I was a bit angry that George put off work in the final two Song of Ice & Fire books to write it. I was not angry, but its a bit annoying. In stead of doing this book he could have finished The Winds of Winter. I have accepted that the last two books of a song of ice and fire and part II of Fire and Blood will never come out.
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Post by Carl LaFong on Feb 12, 2022 22:58:19 GMT
Ripley Under Ground by Patricia Highsmith.
Half way through it.
It’s OK. About an art forgery scheme going awry.
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Post by CrepedCrusader on Feb 16, 2022 23:11:28 GMT
Taking a break from Great Expectations (which I'm rather enjoying) to read Gwendy's Final Task by Stephen King & Richard Chizmar
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Post by theravenking on Feb 17, 2022 12:58:39 GMT
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Post by mikef6 on Feb 17, 2022 17:13:03 GMT
The Annotated Sherlock Holmes, Edited, With An Introduction, Notes, And Bibliography By William S. Baring-Gould. This comes in two folio volumes of 688 and 826 pages. Each page has two columns: the inside column for Watson’s text and the outside for Baring-Gould’s annotations. This formally expensive set is now out-of-print. I fished my copy out of a library’s recycle bin after it had been discarded. Although through the years I had frequently revisited various titles among these 4 novels and 56 short stories, this is only the second time I have read straight through the entire Canon (the works universally accepted to be written by Dr. John H. Watson and marketed by his literary agent, Arthur Conan Doyle). The only difference this time was that the tales were not in publication order but in Baring-Gould’s reckoning of the dates of the actual cases. These volumes are great entertainment. A lot of fun.
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Post by Nalkarj on Feb 23, 2022 13:48:36 GMT
I mentioned here that I think William L. DeAndrea’s Matt Cobb series would be perfect for a TV adaptation (wisecracking hero travels the world solving mysteries and romancing beautiful women), which inspired me to track down some of the series entries I hadn’t read. The one I chose is Killed in the Fog (1996), the last Cobb book before DeAndrea’s far-too-early death. Rather disturbingly for me, this is the first fiction book I’ve read in a while (WORK!). But it’s the perfect book for getting back into reading: short, punchy, light. While Cobb is a takeoff on Rex Stout’s Archie Goodwin (and DeAndrea’s other series sleuth, Niccolo Benedetti, a thin, Italian version of Stout’s Nero Wolfe), DeAndrea’s prose always reminds me of Agatha Christie’s in its seeming ease (a difficult effect to achieve). Killed in the Fog is far from DeAndrea’s best book: It lacks the Caribbean local color of Killed in Paradise, the closed-circle suspense of Killed on the Rocks, or the puzzle-plot cleverness of Killed on the Ice and The HOG Murders (the latter by far DeAndrea’s best book). But every moment is just plain fun, and I like Matt and Rox a lot as characters. The murderer’s identity is easy to guess (I kept thinking DeAndrea was building up to a big twist, but nope, it was so-and-so), though I didn’t guess the identity of the accomplice. That said, I came up with an alternate solution that I think may be more surprising. The clues are few, but there. The climax is good, though DeAndrea should have fit the fog into the mystery plot, as Christianna Brand did in London Particular. Anyway, yeah, fun. I’d really love these books to be adapted for TV.
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Post by wickedkittiesmom on Feb 23, 2022 15:34:50 GMT
I finished The Great Witch of Brittany by Louisa Morgan.
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