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Peter Martin
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Shogun by James Clavell. Finding it quite nicely immersive.
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Doug Centers
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The Glory of Their Times by Ritter.Third time thru this one, thoroughly enjoy first person accounts of turn of the century "base ball".
Edit to add ; turn of the 20th century that is.
Edited by Doug Centers on 15 July 2015 at 6:08pm
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Joe Smith
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Just began GOING CLEAR.
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Jesus Garcia
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THE SCARLET PIMPERNEL by Emma Orczy.
Surprisingly, a thriller.
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Andrew Hess
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Just whipped thru "Armada" by Ernest Cline, author of the wildly popular "Ready Player One" from a few years ago.
Many of the same tropes (boy w/o father and preoccupied with video games, which skill drives the story; lots of pop culture references that are semi-necessary for plot; etc).
All in all, tho, an enjoyable read.
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Robert Cosgrove
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Book on CD, Gregory Berns, How Dogs Love Us: A Neuroscientist and His Adopted Dog Decode the Canine Brain
Apart from my interest in how dogs think and feel, this book is interesting for how Berns designs the experiments, and how he goes about training his dog subjects to enter, remain in, and be still in a noisy MRI device, without resorting to restraints or anesthesia.
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Mike Purdy
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The Wars by Timothy Findley
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James Best
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Just finished:
A Hard Ticket Home by David Housewright
1954: The Year Willie Mays and the First Generation of Black Superstars Changed Major League Baseball Forever by Bill Madden
Hardcase by Dan Simmons
Now starting:
A Small Death In Lisbon by Robert Wilson
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Phil Kreisel
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Orange is the New Black - by Piper Kerman (The real deal, though I do enjoy the NetFlix series as well)
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Mark Tillson
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Listening to What The Night Knows by Dean Koontz. I don't do as much reading as I use to, so I find audio a great substitution. I get my audio books through the local library or on Overdrive. While I still like to brows at a book store, I don't buy anymore. Why pay when I can "rent" for free?
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James Best
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Just finished:
DEAD SLEEP by Greg Iles. This is one of his early stand alone novels from back in 2001. A pretty good read. But I think I am going to stick with his Penn Cage novels in the near future.
Now starting:
THE DOUBLE by George Pelecanos. The second novel in his new Spero Lucas series. I am about halfway through it and I am already looking forward to the next one.
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Shane Matlock
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Just finished The Dead Lands by Benjamin Percy, a post apocalypse novel with no zombie in sight. It does however have horrific mutated animals and mutant folks with powers. I'd recommend it to fans of similar novels like The Stand by Stephen King (my personal favorite Stephen King book). King was a fan of The Dead Lands as well. By the way, Benjamin Percy is currently writing a Green Arrow arc for DC that's pretty dang good and recently wrote an arc for Detective Comics, though I haven't read that one.
I'm now reading Ghost Road Blues by Jonathan Maberry and it's pretty good so far. It's about a haunted town named Pine Deep and is the first book of a trilogy of horror novels. Like Percy, Maberry has written comics as well. He wrote Doomwar and the zombie-esque Vs. trilogy of books for Marvel (The Marvel Universe vs. The Punisher, The Marvel Universe vs. Wolverine, and The Marvel Universe vs. The Avengers) which I enjoyed quite a bit.
And while I'm talking about horror novels, did anyone else ever get the chance to read JB's Fear Book? I read it back in the late 80's and remember enjoying it quite a bit. Never got to read his second novel Whipping Boy though I'd like to. I just noticed that all four reviews of Whipping Boy on Amazon have 5 stars. Both books are out of print, but you can get them used fairly easily. I plan on ordering a copy of Whipping Boy to read after I finish Ghost Road Blues.
Edited by Shane Matlock on 13 August 2015 at 4:19am
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