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James Best
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Going retro this week, circa 1974 and Playboy Press :-)
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James Best
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Now sampling some older stuff from Don Winslow...
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James Best
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Checking out some older (1999) goodness from cartoonist Wiley Miller.
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Robbie Parry
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I'm finding MONKEY PLANET a real slog. A chapter a day seems enough!
Has anything been lost in translation? I do not know. I am not that keen on the fact it's from a first-person narrative. It just isn't flowing well for me at all.
I can "devour" most books, fiction or non-fiction, in days, but I am finding this to be a chore. I do have a compulsion to finish all books, but I wish I didn't.
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James Best
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Now starting another Cold War thriller from one of my favorite authors...
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Shane Matlock
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Rebecca Jansen
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Just finished a fairly lightweight book on The Hollies and have one on Bo Diddley up next.Summer reading. Inbetween I have some early '70s Thors and a run of 1979-80 Two-In-One! Also Starjammers and Futurians by Cockrum... I never got around to or knew about when they were new.
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Ed Aycock
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Re-visiting these which are some of the most grotesque, messed up short stories in what we call American "literature." I love them. O'Connor sure did not idealize people.
Edited by Ed Aycock on 16 July 2018 at 6:48am
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Matthew Chartrand
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Just starting this:
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Wallace Sellars
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Shane, i enjoyed the THIEVES' WORLD books when I read them years ago. I
may need to revisit them!
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Ed Aycock
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Re-reading a lot of Flannery O'Connor's short stories. They are twisted and fascinating.
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Shane Matlock
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Wallace, I recently revisited all the short story books and am making my way through the novels for the first time. It took a while for Janet Morris' writing to grow on me. The first time I read the novels I didn't enjoy her stuff as much as Robert Asprin's stories and Andrew Offutt's Shadownspawn stories but on the reread I'm enjoying her writing style quite a bit more. I bought all three of the official Janet Morris' Thieves' World novels (the Beyond Trilogy) and, I believe, the fourth one is an Andrew Offutt's Shadowspawn novel which I'm really looking forward to. There is also a David Drake Thieves' World novel called Dagger. Sadly, these are all out of print, but can be found pretty cheaply used on Amazon and E-bay.
Edited by Shane Matlock on 19 July 2018 at 12:04am
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