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Don Zomberg
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SPACE ODYSSEY by Michael Benson.
(Thanks for the heads up, Shaun)
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James Best
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| Posted: 22 April 2018 at 8:01am | IP Logged | 2
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Sampling a new military historian this week...
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Shaun Barry
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(Hope you enjoy it, Don... I finished it last week. Great stuff, comprehensive but not dry. And Kubrick's initial reaction to the backlash of 2001's premiere--for a director who had a mythic reputation as a cold robot--is especially poignant.)
Edited by Shaun Barry on 22 April 2018 at 8:28am
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Don Zomberg
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It's a page-turner, to be sure. Want to finish it as soon as possible then pop in the Blu ray. I'll never watch Heywood Floyd's conference room monologue the same way again.
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Shaun Barry
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(Ha! One of the many little eye-openers!)
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Matthew Chartrand
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just starting this one.
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Didier Yvon Paul Fayolle
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Finally finished "Fire and Fury".
Starting a French novel for a change... "Un singe en
hiver" (A monkey in Winter) by Antoine Blondin.
It was also translated in English. And there was a movie
with Jean Gabin and Jean-Paul Belmondo.
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Robbie Parry
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This has been fun so far:
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Ed Aycock
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Finally finished "Sophie's Choice" (felt like I went 10 rounds with it) and then read "The Last Time I Lied" by Riley Sager. It's not out yet but will be in July. Sager (a pseudonym) is a friend of mine and wrote last year's bestselling "Final Girls" so I got advance copies.
Now, I am re-reading "The Figure in the Shadows" bu John Bellairs, the first sequel to "The House With A Clock In Its Walls." Bellairs wrote some great fiction with real danger. AM being cautiously optimistic about the upcoming film version of "House."
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John Byrne
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DUNE (1964) Frank HerbertI cannot calculate how long it's been since the last time I read this book, but it is one of the few that, upon completion of my initial reading, when I was around 19 or so, I turned immediately to the first page and read it again.* It will be interesting to see if my older self finds it as compelling. ------------------------ * THE LORD OF THE RINGS created in me a taste for long, richly embroidered stories. DUNE was the first with which I tried to satisfy that taste.
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Didier Yvon Paul Fayolle
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Along with the French book mentioned a few posts upper,
I just started " Words on the move " by John McWhorter.
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James Best
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Now starting book #1200 of the Lifetime Reading Plan, and I do so with a heavy heart. British author Philip Kerr lost his battle with cancer back in March and his new novel (below) was released just two weeks after his untimely passing. He wrote over thirty books during his career, mostly stand-alone thrillers but he also penned both young adult fantasy and historical crime fiction novels. It was the latter, especially this superb series featuring former Berlin private eye, WWII survivor, and wisecracking antihero Bernie Gunther, that first caught my attention as a reader. Along the way, Kerr either won or was nominated for six U.K. Dagger Awards, three Edgar Allan Poe Awards, two Barry Awards, and both the Shamus and Macavity Awards. I am sure that all of us here on the JBF have been saddened by the loss of a favorite author, but this one hits very close to home for me as Kerr (and Bernie) got me through some of the rougher times in my military career when I was stuck in some not-so-pleasant places. Rest in peace Mr. Kerr, you will be missed.
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