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William Costello
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Wayne of Gotham by Tracy Hickman.
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Joe Murray
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Recently Finished:
A Hell of a War by Douglas Fairbanks, Jr. Daredevil: The Man Without Fear by Frank Miller, John Romita, Jr. & Al Williamson
Currently Reading:
High Stakes & Dangerous Men: The UFO Story by Neil Daneils with a Forward by Eddie Trunk The Steve Ditko Omnibus, Vol. 1 with a Forward by Jonathan Ross
Shipping Soon:
Creepy Presents: Bernie Wrightson Orion Omnibus by Walt Simonson
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John Byrne
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LOGAN'S RUN, inspired by having watched the movie a week ago. Only a couple of dozen pages in, but from the first VERY different from the movie. The phrase "grim and gritty" comes to mind.
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Don Zomberg
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Been curious about LOGAN'S RUN for a while now, but I worry I won't be able to keep the movie out of my head while reading it. I watch the stupid thing about once every five years and it doesn't get better with age.
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John Byrne
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Been curious about LOGAN'S RUN for a while now, but I worry I won't be able to keep the movie out of my head while reading it.•• So far, the biggest "problem" is divorcing the characters from how they look in the movie. In the book, "Lastday" comes when an individual turns 21, not 30, so I find myself occasionally tripping over references to "men" and "women" who are actually 15 years old! The setting is entirely different, too. No cluster of humanity in a single domed city. Most of the cities we know today are present -- Logan references a trip he took to Tokyo -- and open to the air. One of the oddest changes must surely be that in the book the main character is Logan 3, not Logan 5. That seems like an all too familiar "because we can" move by the filmmakers!
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Brian J Nelson
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I just started Dan Pink's, "To Sell is Human: The Surprising Truth About Moving Others." I have been a fan of his work for a while, having met him as I was finishing grad school. I have based sections of various courses on his book Drive. My CEO brought this book to me as he had just finished and his work has lead to some great discussions. He starts out making the point that one way or another, we are all in sales, something our company founder has been saying for decades.
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Matthew Chartrand
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I received two books for my birthday on monday. ROBOCOP: The Definitive History. This over sized coffee-table book has a lot of nice pictures but the story of how the movies came about seemed a little superficial.
ALIEN: the Archive. I'm reading this one next but just flipping through the book, it seems much more in depth than the ROBOCOP book. Lots of great pictures and art.
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John Byrne
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About halfway into LOGAN'S RUN and close to giving up. Way too episodic for me. I have a sense that the two writers took turns, without really consulting what each had done.
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Allan Summerall
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"Treasure" by Clive Cussler.
I love reading Cussler's Dirk Pitt novels. Sometimes,I can almost believe that the historical mysteries he ties the the main plot too are what could really have happened. This particular adventure deals with the possibility of a significant portion of the Alexandria Library being saved before the Library's destruction and hidden away somewhere unknown until a happenstance discovery of a Byzantine ship in Greenland that yields clues to it's whereabouts. It then takes a backseat to the political thriller plot that runs through the main part of the book before the two plots collide in the end. One of the best parts of the book is an auto chase that would do James Bond proud. This is probably my favorite by Cussler behind "Raise the Titanic".
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Andrew Hess
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"Red Harvest" by Dashiell Hammett
Back to the classics: one of the first, if not *the* first, hard-boiled detective book. Later made into the classic samurai movie "Yojimbo" and classic western "A Fistful of Dollars."
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Don Zomberg
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THE LAND ACROSS by Gene Wolfe. Strange little tale, but holding my interest so far.
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James Best
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Just finished:
LIKE A LAMB TO SLAUGHTER, a collection of short stories by the ever-dependable Lawrence Block.
LORDS OF THE REALM by John Helyar, a history of major league baseball's labor and financial battles from the start of professional play at the end of the 19th century up to the beginning of the 1994 strike.
LUMEN by Ben Pastor, the first book in the Captain Martin Bora mystery series set during the Wehrmacht's battles of WWII.
TIGER, MEET MY SISTER...AND OTHER THINGS I PROBABLY SHOULDN'T HAVE SAID by sports columnist Rick Reilly.
Coming up next: LIVE BY NIGHT by Dennis Lehane, winner of the Edgar Allen Poe Award for Best Mystery Novel of 2013.
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