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James Best Byrne Robotics Member
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Posted: 11 February 2016 at 7:55pm | IP Logged | 1
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Phil Kreisel Byrne Robotics Member
Joined: 03 February 2006 Location: Canada Posts: 1911
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Posted: 12 February 2016 at 11:57am | IP Logged | 2
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Invasion (The Walking Dead). Almost a parallel universe for the Walking Dead. Our TV/Comic Book group was only mentioned "off camera" in one of the earlier books. The main protagonist in this novel (as well as the previous 5 books) is Lilly Caul (who doesn't appear on TV or in the comics). Bob Stookey (ex army medic, alcoholic tendencies, but in the books he's white and considerably older) is also prominent in this and the previous books.
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Robert Cosgrove Byrne Robotics Member
Joined: 16 January 2005 Location: United States Posts: 1710
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Posted: 17 February 2016 at 10:24pm | IP Logged | 3
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All I Did Was Shoot My Man by Water Mosley
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Joe Smith Byrne Robotics Member
Joined: 29 August 2004 Location: United States Posts: 6669
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Posted: 18 February 2016 at 3:04pm | IP Logged | 4
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Accidentally re-read BORN STANDING UP by Steve Martin last night.
I am guessing 2008 was a blur for me, as I barely recall reading it and only realized i had when he hit upon the anxiety angle.
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Thom Price Byrne Robotics Member
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Joined: 29 April 2004 Location: United States Posts: 7593
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Posted: 18 February 2016 at 3:46pm | IP Logged | 5
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Book two of the RED RISING trilogy, which is so good I hate every minute that I'm not reading -- while simultaneously dreading coming to the end.
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Don Zomberg Byrne Robotics Member
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Posted: 20 February 2016 at 3:36pm | IP Logged | 6
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FAITH VS FACT--WHY SCIENCE AND RELIGION ARE INCOMPATIBLE by Jerry Coyne.
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John Byrne
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Posted: 22 February 2016 at 10:09am | IP Logged | 7
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Mentioned in another thread that I am reading DRUNK STONED BRILLIANT DEAD, Rick Meyerowitz's history of the people behind the NATIONAL LAMPOON. Most illuminating, and most depressing. Is it really (almost) fifty years since I first encountered the LAMPOON? Have all these Angry Young Men (and Women) really become old geezers like me? Argh!!I realize how impossible it would be to publish something like the LAMPOON today. In a turn that reads almost like something they might have parodied, our society has become insanely PC. (It's not so long since Bill Maher got kicked off the air for saying something politically incorrect on a show that was titled POLITICALLY INCORRECT!) A few years ago, a friend was involved in putting together a LAMPOON collection and realized many of Shary Flenniken's hilarious TROTS AND BONNIE strips would today be considered kiddie porn! I've said before how much my own sense of humor was shaped by the LAMPOON. When I started at Marvel that kind of politically incorrect humor was everywhere in the office. Now, all these years later, the internet has become home to swarms of micro-brained idiots who live to be offended by such things. (Not that the LAMPOON did not cause great offense in its own day -- but those offended were most often perceived as pathetic losers who needed to get their heads out of their asses. Now they run the country!)
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Michael Penn Byrne Robotics Member
Joined: 12 April 2006 Location: United States Posts: 12732
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Posted: 22 February 2016 at 11:33am | IP Logged | 8
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Thayer's Life of Beethoven, Edited by Elliot Forbes.
I miss the days of "Mad" and "National Lampoon"!
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Wallace Sellars Byrne Robotics Member
Joined: 01 May 2004 Location: United States Posts: 17700
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Posted: 22 February 2016 at 12:02pm | IP Logged | 9
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I'm rereading (for the nth time) Robert Asprin's HIT OR MYTH.
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Robert Cosgrove Byrne Robotics Member
Joined: 16 January 2005 Location: United States Posts: 1710
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Posted: 24 February 2016 at 9:14pm | IP Logged | 10
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Just finished Lee Child, Make Me. Jack Reacher is interested in how the town, "Mother's Rest" got its name. This seemingly trivial question soon leads into a "one man against a whole town with a sinister secret" story.
On the audiobook front, finished The Quartet: Orchestrating the Second American Revolution, by the excellent Joseph Ellis. How George Washington, John Jay, Alexander Hamilton, and James Madison recognized the deficiencies of the Articles of Confederation Government, and schemed, successfully, to transform the U.S. from a confederacy of independent states to a true republic. There are some excellent remarks against looking at/judging the past through the distorted lens of what Ellis calls "presentism." One of the most interesting chapters of the book for me had to do with Robert Morris, a founding father of whom I knew but little. We Americans owe him a lot.
[n.b.--in my original version of this post, I misidentified the Ellis book as a different, earlier Ellis book which I also recommend, Founding Brothers. Mea culpa.]
Edited by Robert Cosgrove on 25 February 2016 at 6:10pm
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Wallace Sellars Byrne Robotics Member
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Posted: 24 February 2016 at 9:32pm | IP Logged | 11
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Robert, I'm glad to see someone else reading and enjoying Walter Mosley's Leonid McGill series.
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Robert Cosgrove Byrne Robotics Member
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Posted: 25 February 2016 at 6:13pm | IP Logged | 12
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Wallace, we've got to hope he writes a few more--I'm about to start the final book of that series, although I think he's written a few more Easy Rawlins books since last I checked in. Btw, I thought the movie adaptation of Devil in a Blue Dress, starring Denzel Washington as Easy, was very good, and I'm sorry it apparently wasn't successful enough to start a series.
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