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Don Zomberg
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PERFIDIA, by James Ellroy.
One hundred plus pages in and I've got an itch to re-read the LA Quartet.
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James Best
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Just starting:
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Didier Yvon Paul Fayolle
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I tried as lonf as I could, as far away in the story I
could and managed to go up to half of the book, but I
was really disappointed by " The coming ".
So, I decided to stop reading it for good. It is very
seldom when I do that !
I am now reading the French version of an Italian
book, "La vita erotica del superuomini" ( roughly
translated as " The erotic life of the supermen " ) by
Marco Mancassola.
I am still in the first chapter and it is about Reed
Richards, and for some kind of reason, I cannot stop
myself to visualize JB's version of the character.
Fun read so far...
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John Byrne
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Also just started UNDENIABLE.
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Michael Penn
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UNDENIABLE sounds good -- does anyone know why it's "edited by" another?
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John Byrne
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UNDENIABLE sounds good -- does anyone know why it's "edited by" another?•• Since just about everything ever published is/was "edited by another" I'm more curious as to why there is a cover credit in this instance. That usually happens only on anthologies of different authors.
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Michael Penn
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Weird. The Wall Street Journal wrote this: "...With the help of an “editor,” or perhaps co-author, Corey S. Powell,... ."
Why doesn't the WSJ know the deal? Why would Nye and the publishers be coy about authorship? Hmph.
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John Byrne
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Maybe this is something like A CONFEDERACY OF DUNCES, where the manuscript was unusable in its original form, and had to be pounded into shape by an editor?
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Michael Arndt
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BRIDGE OF SPIES by Giles Whittell
IF CHINS COULD KILL: CONFESSIONS OF A B MOVIE ACTOR by Bruce Campbell
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Josh Goldberg
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Just today I was thinking about how much I respect it when "authors" credit their ghostwriters. Usually see this on autobiograpies by people who simply aren't in the writing business: "My Life and Times by Joe Celebrity with Gary Ghostwriter." Or "as told to Gary Ghostwriter".Give credit where credit is due. There's no shame in being unable to write a book, especially a good and compelling book, if your claim to fame is something complety unrelated to writing books.
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Robert Cosgrove
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Last book completed in 2015: Known to Evil by Walter Mosley, the second in his Leonid McGill series. I think I'm pretty much going to work my way through these books about Mosley's black private detective operating out of Manhattan.
First book completed in 2016: American Burke: The Uncommon Liberalism of Daniel Patrick Moynihan by Greg Weiner. Not a biography per se, but an example of Moynihan's political philosophy and thought. Though I disagreed with him on a number of things, Moynihan is one of my intellectual heroes, so I enjoyed this and will probably reread it in the near future.
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John Byrne
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Picked up a collection of stories by H.P. Lovecraft. Some of you may be surprised to learn I have gotten this far in my life without reading any of his work. Seen a couple of the movies, but not delved into any of the actual prose.Which is kind of odd, I suppose, given what I do for a living. And given that I have, for years, been intrigued by his approach to the horror genre, eschewing as he did the traditional tropes -- vampires, werewolves, mummies, zombies, ghosts -- and inventing instead his own oeuvre, something that bears closer resemblance to modern science fiction than to horror. He did, after all, give us "parallel universe" where the rules of Nature are very different. Something familiar to those investigating the quantum realms.
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