| Author |
|
James Best
Byrne Robotics Member
Joined: 02 March 2014
Location: United States
Posts: 890
|
| Posted: 21 June 2017 at 4:22pm | IP Logged | 1
|
post reply
|
|
I miss reading about Moscow finest fictional detective, Inspector Arkady Renko, but even a stand alone novel by Martin Cruz Smith is well worth my time...
|
| Back to Top |
profile
| search
|
| |
James Best
Byrne Robotics Member
Joined: 02 March 2014
Location: United States
Posts: 890
|
| Posted: 23 June 2017 at 4:06pm | IP Logged | 2
|
post reply
|
|
Now starting:
|
| Back to Top |
profile
| search
|
| |
Matthew Chartrand
Byrne Robotics Member
Joined: 17 June 2007
Location: United States
Posts: 1357
|
| Posted: 23 June 2017 at 5:20pm | IP Logged | 3
|
post reply
|
|
DRAGON TEETH by Michael Crichton.
|
| Back to Top |
profile
| search
|
| |
Michael Penn
Byrne Robotics Member
Joined: 12 April 2006
Location: United States
Posts: 12730
|
| Posted: 23 June 2017 at 5:40pm | IP Logged | 4
|
post reply
|
|
QUOTE:
| Douglas Adams' HITCHHIKERS GUIDE TO THE UNIVERSE |
|
|
Loved the first one! But each one a little less than its predecessor.
|
| Back to Top |
profile
| search
|
| |
Robert Cosgrove
Byrne Robotics Member
Joined: 16 January 2005
Location: United States
Posts: 1710
|
| Posted: 23 June 2017 at 6:19pm | IP Logged | 5
|
post reply
|
|
Finished the audio version of The Wright Brothers by David McCullough, read by McCullogh. Brad Brickley's summary of the book above pretty much nails it. Two comments, before I read the book my knowledge of the WB could pretty much be confined to the paragraph or so they get in high school history texts: two brothers who owned a bicycle shop pull off the first successful powered airplane flight at Kittyhawk. So much more to the story, and to them, than that. Neil Armstrong carried a piece of fabric from the wing of WB plane in his spacesuit pocket when he walked on the moon. Didn't know that. Neat.
|
| Back to Top |
profile
| search
|
| |
Wallace Sellars
Byrne Robotics Member
Joined: 01 May 2004
Location: United States
Posts: 17700
|
| Posted: 24 June 2017 at 7:49am | IP Logged | 6
|
post reply
|
|
Richard Stark's THE BLACK ICE SCORE
|
| Back to Top |
profile
| search
| www
|
| |
Brian Miller
Byrne Robotics Member
Joined: 28 July 2004
Location: United States
Posts: 31213
|
| Posted: 24 June 2017 at 8:42am | IP Logged | 7
|
post reply
|
|
I wish I could find a good deal on Stark's books. I really want to read them.
|
| Back to Top |
profile
| search
|
| |
Robert Cosgrove
Byrne Robotics Member
Joined: 16 January 2005
Location: United States
Posts: 1710
|
| Posted: 25 June 2017 at 6:00pm | IP Logged | 8
|
post reply
|
|
Just finished Bill Schelly's handsomely designed and informative book, John Stanley: Giving Life to Little Lulu. I met Stanley once, and was too ignorant to be impressed. If you are a member of the John Byrne forum, it's a good bet you're a superhero fan. You may also be interested in other genres, but if you're thirty-thirty-five or under you may never have read a John Stanley comic. If you think you might want to find out about Stanley, there's no better place than this fine book.
|
| Back to Top |
profile
| search
|
| |
Matthew Chartrand
Byrne Robotics Member
Joined: 17 June 2007
Location: United States
Posts: 1357
|
| Posted: 26 June 2017 at 5:38pm | IP Logged | 9
|
post reply
|
|
ARMADA by Ernest Cline.
|
| Back to Top |
profile
| search
|
| |
Robert Shepherd
Byrne Robotics Member
Joined: 30 March 2014
Location: United States
Posts: 1268
|
| Posted: 26 June 2017 at 6:35pm | IP Logged | 10
|
post reply
|
|
Last week I finally finished Roger Zalazny's Amber series,
Now I've started Frank Herbert's Dune , first trilogy. I've only read the first book before and that was about 35 years ago.
Muad'Dib
|
| Back to Top |
profile
| search
| www
e-mail
|
| |
John Popa
Byrne Robotics Member
Joined: 20 March 2008
Posts: 4483
|
| Posted: 27 June 2017 at 12:14pm | IP Logged | 11
|
post reply
|
|
"Summer of Night" by Dan Simmons. I read it 20 years or so ago and enjoyed it. Going through it again, it's a little slower than I remembered but Simmons is always a solid writer. The nostalgic 'neighborhood kids against monsters' is very much in the vein of King's "It" and McCammon's "Boy's Life."
|
| Back to Top |
profile
| search
|
| |
James Best
Byrne Robotics Member
Joined: 02 March 2014
Location: United States
Posts: 890
|
| Posted: 27 June 2017 at 3:31pm | IP Logged | 12
|
post reply
|
|
Now starting:
|
| Back to Top |
profile
| search
|
| |
