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James Best Byrne Robotics Member
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Michael Penn Byrne Robotics Member
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The Swerve: How the World Became Modern, by Stephen Greenblatt
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Conrad Teves Byrne Robotics Member
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Ready Player One. By Ernest Cline.
On my second read-through.
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James Best Byrne Robotics Member
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Fred J Chamberlain Byrne Robotics Member
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I finally moved this over to the night stand and will be cracking it open tonight.... 2 years after picking it up, due to a few very strong recommendations here.
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James Best Byrne Robotics Member
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Wallace Sellars Byrne Robotics Member
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CANDY CANES AND CRIMINALS
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Thom Price Byrne Robotics Member
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WHATEVER HAPPENED TO BABY JANE? by Henry Farrell. Not far into it, but already interesting to note just how much changed -- big & small -- from page to screen.
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James Best Byrne Robotics Member
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John Byrne
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Speaking of which, I picked up DARK MATTER AND THE DINOSAURS by Lisa Randall, and got about two pages into the introduction. That was where I realized the whole thing was speculative, and not even widely accepted speculation.Should have read that intro in the store!!
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Peter Martin Byrne Robotics Member
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I find I spend less and less time reading books -- and I fear it may be the effect of the internet. I used to get through maybe a dozen books a year. I just finished Shogun -- going back through this thread, it seems I started reading it last July. Shocking! Nearly a year to get through one book!
I'll be in the corner with the dunce's hat on my head.
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Michael Penn Byrne Robotics Member
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SITCOM: A HISTORY LESSON IN 24 EPISODES FROM I LOVE LUCY TO COMMUNITY, by Saul Austerlitz
So far, even the Introduction is excellent. Made me think of what comicbooks were and should be!
"Sitcoms exemplified the phenomenon of eternal return, promising endless variation without ever fundamentally altering the world that contained them. [...] And yet there was more to the sitcom than banal familiarity. There was, at times, the sense that within the comforting confines of its well-worn punchlines, something surprising could happen. Sitcoms reflected America, but the mirrors they used could warp and bend reality into intriguing new patterns [and] individual fantasy worlds..."
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