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Gregory Harshman
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Finished Between You & Me: Confessions of a Comma Queen by Mary Norris tonight and Pirate Hunters: Treasure, Obsession, and the Search for a Legendary Pirate Ship by Robert Kurson on Saturday.
Next up is Cuckoo: Cheating by Nature by Nick Davies
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Brad Brickley
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I'm thinking I'm ready to read my Bond books finally, any particular order to read them in or just go by publishing date?
Right now I'm reading BROTHERS KARAMOZOV, not sure how I feel about it yet.
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Eric Ladd
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I finished The Martian by Andy Weir on Sunday. The book was enjoyable. The ending is predictable, much like Apollo 13, but the interesting parts are the obstacles, accidents and how everything is overcome.
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James Best
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Just finished:
THE DEEP by Peter Benchley. I had seen the 1977 film that was based on the novel but had never read the book itself until now. Have to say it wasn't that memorable. Sort of bland really. Makes me wonder if Benchley's publishers made him rush to crank out a novel after the success of JAWS at the theaters.
DRY BONES by Craig Johnson. The 11th novel in his ongoing mystery series. The book finds Sheriff Longmire dealing with the fallout (and murder) when the fossilized bones of a T-rex are found in his small (fictional) county in Wyoming. Fun stuff and worth a look if you haven't tried Johnson's series yet.
Currently reading:
THE LAST HERO: A Life of Henry Aaron by Howard Bryant. I have read both of Bryant's other non-fiction works on baseball and thought they were outstanding. I am only a third of the way through this one but it is right up there with them so far.
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Robert Cosgrove
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Continuing to work my way through Daniel Silva's Gabriel Allon series, I just finished THE ENGLISH GIRL. Prime Minister of England has an affair. Bad guys get wind of it, kidnap the lover, and hold her for ransom. For political reasons, he can't go to British Law Enforcement Authorities, so he reaches out to retired Mossad agent Gabriel Allon.
Liked it. That would have been the last of the Allon series, but fortunately, another one has just been published, so I'll read it as soon as I can get ahold of it from the library.
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Steve Coates
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The "Dan Spiegle: A Life in Comic Art" from TwoMorrows publishing was mostly standard fare for the type of book. There was an interview conducted in 1972 and Dan said, "As a whole the industry should be expanding in both size and page-count". Fairly apt comment give the intervening years.
I also read TwoMorrows' Modern Masters Volume Thirty: Paolo Rivera. I don't know much about Paolo and still don't. The only understanding I get is how the industry is pandering/targeting with presenting young, new, fresh, hot, cool (pick an adjective) talent. While experienced talent of at least equal or greater capabilities is over looked or even scorned.
Found some, never previously read by me, books by Martin Caidin. All are aviation based, one about Barnstorming history and two concerning WWII. One is about the fire bombing of Japan, of March 10, 1945. Not yet in the right frame of mind to consider such traumatic events.
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John Byrne
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BOB HOPE - A LIFE IN COMEDY. Bio by William Robert Faith. 60 pages into a 400+ pager. So far enjoying it.
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Didier Yvon Paul Fayolle
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Previous one was "Creativity Inc " by Ed Catmull.
New one is " The martian ", by Andy Weir. I am 100 pages
in, out of 369. And I am loving it big time ! Funny,
witty, suspenseful. I want to finish it before the movie
comes out.
(edited to add the writer's name for "the martian" )
Edited by Didier Yvon Paul Fayolle on 01 July 2015 at 10:33pm
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Kip Lewis
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Just finished Blue Labyrinth by
Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child. The
latest in the Special Agent Pendergast
series.
Just started James Rollin's The 6th
Extinction, a Sigma Force novel.
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Trevor Thompson
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Christopher Priest's Conan series. It's brilliant and I think he's very underrated.
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Robert Cosgrove
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Michael Flynn's Firestar. Written ten or fifteen years ago, it's science fiction of the near future, somewhat in the Heinlein tradition. To greatly oversimplify a sprawling novel, the heroine is the heir to an industrial fortune who devotes her energies to creating a private market for space travel. Her broad vision includes setting up a corporation to manage school systems to encourage the vision and imagination to step into space. The novel resonates with me--as a kid growing up in the sixties, I always believed the future would be that of Clark's 2001--or some version of it. Maybe it would come in 2010 or 2015, but there would be moon colonies and such, and maybe someday, as a tourist, I myself might be able to travel to space. How wrong I--and others like me--were.
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Thom Price
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BOB HOPE - A LIFE IN COMEDY. Bio by William Robert Faith.
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I read HOPE: ENTERTAINER OF THE CENTURY by Richard Zoglin a few months back. It was an interesting insight into Bob's life and career. Respectful, I thought, and written with admiration, but also pretty straightforward about Hope's less laudable qualities.
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Just finished reading THE GIRL ON THE TRAIN by Paula Hawkins. The characters are a bunch of nuts, but the story was swift and engrossing.
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