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John Byrne
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I used to be a huge fan of Mary Roach. Then I found out she uses Wikipedia as a primary reference source.
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Andrew Hess
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Whaa....?!??!!!
But she lists that nowhere in the Bibliography (okay, Wikipedia is not technically a book, but...) or the Acknowledgments.
My respect plunges.
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Mike O'Brien
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I love Moore's books - they're silly as hell. BITE ME was the third in a series (also: BLOODSUCKING FREAKS and YOU SUCK) - I'm not hot on his vampire books, but A DIRTY JOB is pretty awesome (kind of ties into the vampire ones) and THE STUPIDEST ANGEL, which is a holdiay book that ties together a bunch of his books into a zombie christmas nightmare - that's awesome. They're all pretty good. I like his stuff. It's silly, and flip and veers close to being to cutesy at times, but stays just on this line of it. (I think the vampire books worked that line a little hard, though...)
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Donald Miller
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Just started The Radleys by Matt Haig
Looks like i'm in for a fun ride.
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Michael Penn
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| Posted: 07 April 2011 at 3:22pm | IP Logged | 5
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I saw that Mary Roach quoted Wikipedia several times in BONK, and then promptly (albeit sadly) tossed the book away. Oh well.
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Dan Marcoux
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I'm stuck on Edgar Rice Burrough's Monster Men. Before I started this yawner, I was zipping through a few books a month on my Kindle. Now I look at the Kindle and am afraid to pick it up - haven't touched it in three weeks. I've got some type of mental block that will not allow me to start reading a new book until I've finished one I've already started.
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Brian Hunt
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| Posted: 07 April 2011 at 5:17pm | IP Logged | 7
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WISHFUL DRINKING by Carrie Fisher. It's a hoot.
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John Byrne
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| Posted: 07 April 2011 at 7:39pm | IP Logged | 8
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I'm stuck on Edgar Rice Burrough's Monster Men. Before I started this yawner, I was zipping through a few books a month on my Kindle. Now I look at the Kindle and am afraid to pick it up - haven't touched it in three weeks. I've got some type of mental block that will not allow me to start reading a new book until I've finished one I've already started. ** The trick is to have more than one book going at once. I usually have my lunchtime book in the kitchen, my bedtime book in the bedroom, an oversized book that would be hard to read in another setting in the living room, and often an audio book in the car. Makes it easier to drop one that isn't working for me.
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Didier Yvon Paul Fayolle
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| Posted: 07 April 2011 at 8:09pm | IP Logged | 9
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"Year's Best SF 14". A collection of SF stories....
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Andrew Hess
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| Posted: 05 May 2011 at 9:24am | IP Logged | 10
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Just finished Jasper Fforde's "One of Our Thursdays is Missing."
This is the latest in the Thursday Next series, and a rollicking sci-fi/mystery/comedy adventure. The main gist of the series is that Thursday can go within the stories set in books. One of her main contacts in the first few books is Miss Haversham, who turns out to be a racing fanatic. Other plot threads involve time travel, alternate realities, genetic experiments, and contraband cheese.
I have the feeling anyone here who hasn't read any of these books, but likes Douglas Adams, will feel right at home. The books read as if Adams could write with a coherent plot.
I can't recommend these books enough.
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Michael Arndt
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| Posted: 07 May 2011 at 7:47am | IP Logged | 11
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Essential Thor #5 10 Days That Unexpectedly Changed America by Steven M. Gillon
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Eric Ladd
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| Posted: 07 May 2011 at 9:12am | IP Logged | 12
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Diving into "Black Powder War" by Naomi Novik. It is the third in her Temeraire series.
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