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John Byrne
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Posted: 20 December 2015 at 1:07pm | IP Logged | 1
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Rereading (is this the third time or fourth?) Alison Weir's superb biography of Elizabeth the First.
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Michael Penn Byrne Robotics Member
Joined: 12 April 2006 Location: United States Posts: 12732
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Posted: 20 December 2015 at 3:02pm | IP Logged | 2
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Jan Swafford, Beethoven: Anguish and Triumph (2014).
1,104 pages isn't enough! But this is excellent.
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Robert Cosgrove Byrne Robotics Member
Joined: 16 January 2005 Location: United States Posts: 1710
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Posted: 20 December 2015 at 9:31pm | IP Logged | 3
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Wealth, Poverty, and Politics: An International Perspective by Thomas Sowell. The many factors that account for inequality of income and outcome, and a debunking of common misperceptions about same.
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Robert Cosgrove Byrne Robotics Member
Joined: 16 January 2005 Location: United States Posts: 1710
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Posted: 25 December 2015 at 7:44pm | IP Logged | 4
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Merry Christmas, everyone. Just finished Lodestar, by Michael Flynn. This is the third volume in the modern Heinlein-esque account of a corporate titan who pushes space travel because she fears an asteroid collision with the earth, the team she assembles, and the forces that oppose her. As I've read three of the series now, you might correctly infer that I'm a fan of Flynn's work. (And what says Christmas like the threat of an asteroid striking the planet?)
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Robert Bradley Byrne Robotics Member
Joined: 20 September 2006 Location: United States Posts: 4885
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Posted: 25 December 2015 at 10:49pm | IP Logged | 5
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James Best - I read that book a couple weeks ago myself. Really brought back a lot of memories, mostly good ones.
Now reading one of the gifts I received for Christmas -
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James Best Byrne Robotics Member
Joined: 02 March 2014 Location: United States Posts: 890
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Posted: 29 December 2015 at 8:07pm | IP Logged | 6
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Just finished:
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James Best Byrne Robotics Member
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Posted: 29 December 2015 at 8:08pm | IP Logged | 7
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Now starting:
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Charles Nelson Byrne Robotics Member
Joined: 25 June 2012 Location: United States Posts: 246
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Posted: 29 December 2015 at 9:46pm | IP Logged | 8
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Hey James,Ellroy's latest is titled Perfidia. It's excellent, by his standards. Sprawling and intense, it weaves in characters you meet "later" in earlier works as well as new characters. I celebrated the release of Perfidia by re-reading ( for the 4th time?) the LA Quartet and the American Underworld Trilogy. BTW, I have read all those early novels once each. They show him mastering the form, but the later ones show him creating his own form. What's your favorite Ellroy?
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John Byrne
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Posted: 30 December 2015 at 6:47am | IP Logged | 9
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Picked up a collection of Graham Greene novels, and started the first, ORIENT EXPRESS, a few nights ago. Odd. Several chapters in, and still waiting for a story to appear. I suspect this is going to be a SHIP OF FOOLS experience, as multiple characters are established but their individual threads do not quite weave into a whole cloth.
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James Best Byrne Robotics Member
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Posted: 30 December 2015 at 10:39am | IP Logged | 10
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Charles,
Thanks for the review of Perfidia, as it certainly sounds like Ellroy is just as formidable as I remember him... I have not read any of his novels in quite some time now. I read the LA Quartet, backtracked to read the Lloyd Hopkins trilogy, and then finished off American Tabloid. But shortly after that I relocated (I was active duty military at the time) and got hitched, which caused Ellroy to fall off my radar screen. Then I branched out in other directions and haven't gone back (yet) to check out the remains of his Underworld Trilogy. I would probably have to re-read American Tabloid again to refresh myself with all of the characters.
I don't think that I have a favorite Ellroy novel, although I remember reading LA Confidential and thinking "Yeah, I can see why it took seven years for Hollywood to come up with a workable script from it" given how many layers that Ellroy had built into the book :-)
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Wallace Sellars Byrne Robotics Member
Joined: 01 May 2004 Location: United States Posts: 17700
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Posted: 30 December 2015 at 11:14am | IP Logged | 11
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Rachel Searles' THE STOLEN MOON
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William Lukash Byrne Robotics Member
Joined: 17 May 2006 Location: United States Posts: 1405
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Posted: 30 December 2015 at 6:22pm | IP Logged | 12
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Hidden Persuaders by Vance Packard. A fun and interesting read.
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