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Matthew Chartrand Byrne Robotics Member
Joined: 17 June 2007 Location: United States Posts: 1357
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Posted: 18 December 2016 at 8:13pm | IP Logged | 1
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Just starting THE WRONG SIDE OF GOODBYE, by Michael Connelly.
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Robert Cosgrove Byrne Robotics Member
Joined: 16 January 2005 Location: United States Posts: 1710
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Posted: 18 December 2016 at 9:10pm | IP Logged | 2
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Me too, Matthew. Started it Thursday, finished it tonight (Sunday). Connelly is one of my favorites.
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Robert Cosgrove Byrne Robotics Member
Joined: 16 January 2005 Location: United States Posts: 1710
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Posted: 18 December 2016 at 9:18pm | IP Logged | 3
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Blood and Sand: Suez, Hungary, and Eisenhower's Campaign for Peace
Although generally aware of both the Suez crisis and the Hungarian uprising, I didn't know much about them; they happened within my lifetime, but I was only four years old at the time. This book is good on showing the interplay of the events. And I don't think of myself as naive, but I found myself shocked at the cynicism of almost all the countries involved. Nobody comes off very well, although Nasser and Eisenhower do about as well as anybody. This book embodies the current conventional wisdom, that Eisenhower acted correctly in declining to support the British, French and Israeli's in the attempt to seize control of the Suez canal. Eisenhower, however, reportedly came to regret his handling of the situation, a view not covered by author Alex Von Tunzelmann. For that view, I think I'm now interested enough to read Michael Doran's book on the same subject, Ike's Gamble.
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Don Zomberg Byrne Robotics Member
Joined: 23 November 2005 Posts: 2355
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Posted: 19 December 2016 at 8:50am | IP Logged | 4
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THE MAN IN THE HIGH CASTLE (1962)
My first foray into Philip K Dick since my failed attempt at reading--ahem--"Blade Runner" when I was twelve.
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Fabrice Renault Byrne Robotics Member
Joined: 15 April 2004 Location: France Posts: 3094
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Posted: 19 December 2016 at 5:06pm | IP Logged | 5
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I think it is in that Philip K. Dick's novel that there is references to Frank Miller's Daredevil.
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William Costello Byrne Robotics Member
Joined: 30 August 2012 Location: United States Posts: 754
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Posted: 19 December 2016 at 7:51pm | IP Logged | 6
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The End of Accounting (and The Path Forward for Investors and Managers) - Wiley Finance Series by Professors Baruch Lev and Feng Gu.
I am about 100 pages into the book now - based on this book, I should find a new career (ugh!).
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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: 20 December 2016 at 8:16pm | IP Logged | 7
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THE GREATEST GIFT by Philip Van Doren Stern; the story that inspired IT'S A WONDERFUL LIFE.
I set myself a goal of reading 36 books in 2016, and this is it.
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Thom Price Byrne Robotics Member
LHomme Diabolique
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Posted: 20 December 2016 at 9:33pm | IP Logged | 8
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Which, turns out, wasn't much more than a short story.
So I also read the novella, MIRACLE ON 34th STREET by Valentine Davies; based on the film which itself was based on an idea by Davies. The stories and characters are pretty faithful, but there's all kinds of arbitrary changes that feel a bit like a writer giving Hollywood what it usually does to adaptations.
And, why not?, I read HOW A GRINCH STOLE CHRISTMAS by Dr. Seuss; I don't recall ever reading this as a kid.
Edited by Thom Price on 20 December 2016 at 9:42pm
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James Best Byrne Robotics Member
Joined: 02 March 2014 Location: United States Posts: 890
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Posted: 20 December 2016 at 10:09pm | IP Logged | 9
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Now starting:
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Don Zomberg Byrne Robotics Member
Joined: 23 November 2005 Posts: 2355
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Posted: 21 December 2016 at 9:14am | IP Logged | 10
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Another Bender mystery this soon? I had no idea. Thanks for the heads up, James.
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Robert Cosgrove Byrne Robotics Member
Joined: 16 January 2005 Location: United States Posts: 1710
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Posted: 24 December 2016 at 7:51pm | IP Logged | 11
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James Shapiro, The Year of Lear: Shakespeare in 1606. I'm listening to this on disc. Per the jacket, "In the years leading up to 1606, since the death of Queen Elizabeth and the arrival in England of her successor, King James of Scotland, Shakespeare's great productivity had ebbed, and it may have seemed to some that his prolific genius was a thing of the past. But that year, at age forty-two, he found his footing again, finishing a play he had begun the previous autumn--King Lear--then writing two other great tragedies, Macbeth and Antony and Cleopatra.
The Year of Lear sheds light on these three great tragedies by placing them in the context of their times, while also allowing us greater insight into how Shakespeare was personally touched by such events as a terrible outbreak of plague and growing religious divisions." And they might have added, the Gunpowder Plot.
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Wallace Sellars Byrne Robotics Member
Joined: 01 May 2004 Location: United States Posts: 17700
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Posted: 24 December 2016 at 8:01pm | IP Logged | 12
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I'm rereading Stan Lee's THE ZODIAC LEGACY: CONVERGENCE.
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