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Petter Myhr Ness Byrne Robotics Member
Joined: 02 July 2009 Location: Norway Posts: 3917
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Posted: 25 August 2014 at 6:06am | IP Logged | 1
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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 Byrne Robotics Member
Joined: 17 March 2008 Location: Canada Posts: 15973
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Posted: 25 August 2014 at 7:18am | IP Logged | 2
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Man of Nazareth by Anthony Burgess.
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Ed Aycock Byrne Robotics Member
Joined: 05 May 2004 Location: United States Posts: 1004
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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 Byrne Robotics Member
Joined: 02 March 2014 Location: United States Posts: 890
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Posted: 01 September 2014 at 10:08pm | IP Logged | 4
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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 Byrne Robotics Member
Joined: 27 August 2005 Location: United States Posts: 281
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Posted: 07 September 2014 at 8:35pm | IP Logged | 5
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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 Byrne Robotics Member
Joined: 18 April 2011 Location: United States Posts: 1784
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Posted: 07 September 2014 at 8:46pm | IP Logged | 6
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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 Byrne Robotics Member
Joined: 17 March 2007 Location: Ireland Posts: 6782
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Posted: 08 September 2014 at 5:56am | IP Logged | 7
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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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Joined: 11 May 2005 Posts: 133443
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Posted: 08 September 2014 at 6:44am | IP Logged | 8
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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 Byrne Robotics Member
Joined: 02 September 2006 Location: United States Posts: 5837
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Posted: 08 September 2014 at 2:18pm | IP Logged | 9
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CLANDESTINE by James Ellroy.
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William Costello Byrne Robotics Member
Joined: 30 August 2012 Location: United States Posts: 755
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Posted: 08 September 2014 at 2:33pm | IP Logged | 10
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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 Byrne Robotics Member
Joined: 08 August 2006 Location: United States Posts: 3666
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Posted: 08 September 2014 at 3:28pm | IP Logged | 11
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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 Byrne Robotics Member
Joined: 01 May 2004 Location: United States Posts: 17700
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Posted: 08 September 2014 at 4:24pm | IP Logged | 12
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I'm rereading LUCKY STARR AND THE BIG SUN OF MARS.
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