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Marcio Ferreira
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| Posted: 08 July 2016 at 8:42am | IP Logged | 1
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Last number of The Walking Dead was a great come back of the best stories by RK. It is the only comic book that I am reading on a monthly basis and this number gave a big boost to my interest for the next month.
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Robert Cosgrove
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| Posted: 08 July 2016 at 5:24pm | IP Logged | 2
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Josh, I'd be interested to know how you like The Man In the High Castle. While I think the series (which was great) was largely true to the spirit of the book, the narrative of the book is, as I'm sure you've discovered, quite different.
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James Best
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John Byrne
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| Posted: 09 July 2016 at 6:45am | IP Logged | 4
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About to start ALL THE PRESIDENT'S MEN by Woodward and Bernstein. Only my third reading of this since I bought it when I first came out (in hardcover no less!!). And the first two were basically back-to-back, so it's been a while.Will this carry me on into THE FINAL DAYS? We shall see!
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Don Zomberg
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What do you think of the film, JB?
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John Byrne
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| Posted: 09 July 2016 at 8:52am | IP Logged | 6
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What do you think of the film, JB?•• I thought it was very good as a dramatization of what, in reality, was a lot of very dull stuff!
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Robbie Moubert
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| Posted: 09 July 2016 at 9:46pm | IP Logged | 7
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Young Men in Spats by P.G. Wodehouse. After the disappointment of Jeeves and the Wedding bells it's a joy to read some classic Wodehouse again. His short stories are the perfect way to eke out my reading of the Blandings Castle novels.
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James Best
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| Posted: 13 July 2016 at 4:45pm | IP Logged | 8
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Robert Cosgrove
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Freedom's Forge by Arthur Herman. How FDR made his peace with "the malefactors of wealth" and those vilified, after World War I, as "merchants of death" and "war profiteers," and how American Business, from General Motors to the lowliest mom & pop garage, responded by designing and building the weapons that defeated the Axis powers. (At Potsdam, remarkably, Stalin raised his glass to propose a toast to the American industrial system that had armed, and sometimes fed, his soldiers).
There's a very interesting section on the 1939 New York World's Fair and how the gathering storm of war affected it.
I also learned of a man I had never heard of, though apparently famous in his day, immigrant William Knutson, who made substantial contributions first to Ford, then to GM, before FDR, on the advice of Bernard Baruch, picked up the telephone and enlisted him to organize the industrial aspect of the war effort.
I enjoyed this book very much, and learned a lot from it. I'm going to look into some of Herman's other books. I note that he's just published a new biography of Douglas MacArthur.
Edited by Robert Cosgrove on 23 July 2016 at 7:28am
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Didier Yvon Paul Fayolle
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"A Kim Jong-Il production", by Paul Fischer
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Robert Bradley
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| Posted: 24 July 2016 at 6:35am | IP Logged | 11
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Robbie Parry
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Fuck me, haven't' seen that in the shops (and I try to keep abreast of all DK products).
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