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Petter Myhr Ness
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Just finished Gillian Flynn's debut novel SHARP OBJECTS. She's rapidly becoming a favourite.
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Peter Martin
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Man of Nazareth by Anthony Burgess.
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Ed Aycock
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| Posted: 26 August 2014 at 1:12pm | IP Logged | 3
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Read "The Lacuna" by Barbara Kingsolver which was fantastic. It sounds like a Forrest Gumpish type tale gone Communist as a young Mexican-American man becomes Frida Kahlo and Diego Rivera's assistant in Mexico and then Trotsky's and when he goes back to America, comes upon the inevitable end resulting of associating with them. Words can't say how much I enjoyed it. Then I read "Bliss House" by Laura Benedict which promised to be a haunted house thriller, even name-dropping Shirley Jackson in a blurb. It wasn't. Now I'm reading "Horns" by the reliable Joe Hill. Worst read of the summer? The excruciatingly awful "The Truth About the Harry Quebert Affair" which has received more undeserved accolades than any book in recent memory.
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James Best
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Took an enjoyable break to read CALVIN AND HOBBES, the first collection of the syndicated cartoon by Bill Watterson from back in 1987. I found myself laughing out loud at the sheer genius of the characters. Brilliant stuff. Makes me wish I read Watterson's stuff back when I was in my 20s and 30s. I am going to try and track down more of his collections in the very near future.
Followed that up by reading THE MEXICAN TREE DUCK, the second C.W. Sughrue mystery by James Crumley. Now I'm about fifty pages into BUT NOT IN SHAME: The Six Months After Pearl Harbor by the late great John Toland.
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Gregory Harshman
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Just finished Wilful Murder: The Sinking of the "Lusitania" by Diana Preston.
Edited by Gregory Harshman on 07 September 2014 at 8:48pm
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Ronald Joseph
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Just finished Never Go Back, the latest Jack Reacher novel by Lee Child. Not the best in the series. Quite possibly my least favorite so far.
Just started Heart Shaped Box by Joe Hill. I need a horror fix.
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David Ferguson
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THE PLAYERS - Terence Dicks. A Sixth Doctor story featuring Winston Churchill. I enjoyed it a lot. One reason was majorly spoilery so I won't say.
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John Byrne
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Rereading THE AMERICAN WAY OF DEATH by Jessica Mitford. This is one I have highly recommended before, a comprehensive (and very witty) exposé of the funeral business in this country. First published in the early Sixties, it was revised by Ms Mitford shortly before her own death in 1996.If you plan on dying, ever, read this book!!!!
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Eric Smearman
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CLANDESTINE by James Ellroy.
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William Costello
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I just finished Marvel: The Untold Story by Sean Howe, and I've started Super Boys by Brad Ricca.
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Carmen Bernardo
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Re-reading some classics right now. The Roman history of Livy, followed by Plutarch's Lives. My way of keeping a slow later half of the year from getting even slower.
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Wallace Sellars
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I'm rereading LUCKY STARR AND THE BIG SUN OF MARS.
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