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Fabrice Renault
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Why, Terry ? I tried, read the first book, and could hardly finish it. Not my taste, not the kind of writing I like, and that's it.
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Terry Doyle
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Joined: 09 August 2014
Location: United Kingdom
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Some things take time to weave their magic on you.
My wife bought the first season (TV) box set. Something I previously had no interest in checking out. As I'd not much else to do, I started watching the episodes with her and, gradually, I became hooked.
If it's not for you, fine. No biggie to me . . .
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Terry Doyle
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Reading issue 3 of 'Illustrators' (Book Palace publication). Fantastic (lengthy) feature on Italian artist Fortunino Matania, profusely illustrated. Also just in (yet to read) IDW Artist's Edition of Jim Steranko's Nick Fury, Agent of S.H.E.L.D. The bulk of the work scanned directly from the original artwork. Looks fantastic . . .
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Brandon Frye
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Just finished Stephen King's Mr. Mercedes. I found it rather chilling given the real-world events of the last few years.
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Don Zomberg
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Picked up Brandon Crouch's WAYWARD PINES trilogy at the store today, mostly on a whim.
Hopefully it's as creepy as it looks.
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Gil Dowling
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Finished Wise Man's Fear by Patrick Rothfuss recently and started Skin Game by Jim Butcher a night or two ago.
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Aaron Smith
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Reading Stephen King's "Danse Macabre" for the second time. His fiction is hit or miss for me, but I love this book, his analysis of what makes readers and viewers love the horror genre, and his critiques of various horror books, films, and TV and radio shows.
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Wallace Sellars
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I am rereading Angela Nissel's The Broke Diaries: The Completely True and
Hilarious Misadventures of a Good Girl Gone Broke.
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Aaron Smith
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The King in Yellow by Robert W. Chambers
I've always been curious about it, considering it's supposed influence on writers such as HP Lovecraft. With it getting recent attention due to the series "True Detective," Barnes & Noble just published an inexpensive hardcover edition, so I thought I'd give it a shot. I've read the first two stories so far. It's okay, but I haven't yet been pulled deeply into it.
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James Best
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Just finished A SERPENT'S TOOTH by Craig Johnson. More Walt Longmire goodness.
Now starting IT WORKED FOR ME: In Life And Leadership by Colin Powell.
After that, more Craig Johnson (ANY OTHER NAME) followed by either John Toland (BUT NOT IN SHAME) or more David Halberstam (THE BEST AND THE BRIGHTEST).
Decisions, decisions :-)
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Andrew Hess
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Finished "World of Trouble, the last of The Last Policeman Trilogy by Ben Winters.
Hank Palace is in the Ohio looking for his sister, who told him, last he saw her, that she had hooked up with an underground group that had the means to divert the asteroid on a collision course with earth.
Fabulous sci-fi for people who don't like sci-fi: it's really an existential detective series, but works hard at figuring out the science involved and what would be happening with society in the final days of human civilization on our planet. Different than the other 2 books in the series, this one concentrates really only on a few individuals in these last days.
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Craig Robinson
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Tolkien's "Children of Hurin" (second time around).
"Letter 44" TPB by Soule.
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