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John Popa
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"Children of the Night" by Dan Simmons. So far a lesser entry from an otherwise strong author. A lot of history, not a lot of character.
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James Best
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Now starting book #21 in the John Rebus mystery series by Ian Rankin.
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Thom Price
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ARMADA, by Ernest Cline. I loved the author's READY PLAYER ONE, but this one is off to a rough start. That the plot seems to be very close to the Adam Sandler film PIXELS also doesn't fill me with confidence.
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Robert Cosgrove
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Stanley P. Hirshon, General Patton: A Soldier's Life. I wanted to read a more scholarly/conventional treatment of Patton after listening to Bill O'Reilly's Killing Patton a while back, and this fit the bill. A doorstop of a book, this took me a while to wade through. If you can find a shorter bio--say, 350 pp., I don't think you'd be missing a great deal--this one almost tells you what Patton had for breakfast every day. Still, a lot of interesting material. One leaves convinced of Patton's remarkable tactical genius and grateful that he was a leading general in the war, but quite disappointed in him in other respects, including his casual anti-semitism. Ironically, though, he's the one who advises Eisenhower to film the concentration camps, wise advice which Ike took.
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Didier Yvon Paul Fayolle
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Wonder Woman ( volume 1 ), by John Byrne.
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James Best
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Robert Cosgrove
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John Clymer: An Artist's Rendezvous with the Frontier, by Walt Reed. Another illustrator turned Western Artist. Clymer did about eighty covers for the Saturday Evening Post, back in the day . . .
This was, I think, the major book on his work, although Ballentine did a paperback collection of his illustrations about the time they were also doing the paperback Frazetta collections.
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James Best
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Now going retro, circa 1980...
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Brad Brickley
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I finished up THE WRIGHT BROTHERS by David McCullough. It was a nice read about these two brothers who changed the world through smarts and hard work all on their own for the most part.
Now I'm on to Douglas Adams' HITCHHIKERS GUIDE TO THE UNIVERSE books. I've seen the old BBC series and the movie, but haven't read the books yet.
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David Miller
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BEREN AND LUTHIEN, edited by Christopher Tolkien from JRR Tolkien's rough drafts. I loved the HISTORY OF MIDDLE EARTH books, and so was excited when I heard about this. However, it turns out every word already appeared in those books. "This book does not offer a single page of original and unpublished work," it says in the introduction, which reading before purchase is a good idea.
It's a far more reader-friendly presentation of the narrative than following it across four or five books in the HISTORY. And Sauron gets actual "screen time" as a villain, which is pretty cool. I noted with some amusement the copyright page lists "Beren" and "Luthien" as registered trademarks, just in case some enterprising Hollywood suit gets a big idea about making a "Beren and Luthien" movie based on the 200 or so words that appeared in Fellowship of the Ring.
I eagerly await Christopher Tolkien's next volume, which will reportedly contain every grocery shopping list JRR Tolkien wrote from 1964 to 1967.
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Wallace Sellars
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Juanita Coulson's THE DEATH GOD'S CITADEL
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James Best
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