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James Best
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Now starting...
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James Best
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Now continuing with some science stufff... :-)
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James Best
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Now sampling the second book in which I hope will be a long running mystery series set in Australia... The author's first novel (entitled THE DRY) was terrific and garnered several awards and nominations. Let's see if the author can keep the momentum going.
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Peter Martin
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I find it curious that this thread -- about a non-visual medium -- has many posts accompanied with an image of the cover of the book, whereas text suffices for the equivalent threads for TV and Movies.
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Fred J Chamberlain
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Every Man Dies Alone
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James Best
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Now diving into some more WWII history...
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Eric Smearman
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I'LL BE GONE IN THE DARK: ONE WOMAN'S OBSESSIVE SEARCH
FOR THE GOLDEN STATE KILLER by the late Michelle
McNamara.
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Brian Floyd
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BITTER RECKONING by Heather Graham, a Cafferty and Quinn novella. I'm a couple pages over halfway through right now.
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Robert Cosgrove
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Mister Miracle by Tom King and Mitch Gerads. This is the "Graphic Novel" collection of the 12-issue series. It has apparently won a lot of critical acclaim, and the creative team are obviously Kirby fans. A number of in-jokes, and some interesting ideas. Good renditions of the characters, though a very different style from Kirby--the entire story is told in 9-panel grid, for example. I found it intriguing at first, but ultimately it went down roads I found unsatisfying.
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Robert Cosgrove
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Brief Answers to the Big Questions (a posthumous collection of essays) by Stephen Hawking. Questions such as, "Is there a God?"; "how did it all begin?"; "is time travel possible?"; "should we colonist space?" and six others. Written to be accessible to the lay person, and largely math-free, I found I could follow most of it (or delude myself that I could), but the string theory and time travel discussion was pretty much beyond me. Hawking's answer to "how did it all begin" suggests that there is now pretty substantial corroboration for the "big bang" theory. When I was a kid taking seventh grade science, we were taught about the competing theories, "steady state" [the universe always existed], proposed by Fred Hoyle and others, and "big bang." I was interested to learn that many scientists were resistant to the big bang theory because it seemed to them to require invocation of an outside agency to begin the universe, "which for convenience one could call God."
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Didier Yvon Paul Fayolle
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Already around 80 pages in. Very interesting life
experiences and well written.
As I read during my transports, I appreciate the small
"parts" instead of chapters.
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Tim O Neill
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Peter: “I find it curious that this thread -- about a non-visual medium -- has many posts accompanied with an image of the cover of the book, whereas text suffices for the equivalent threads for TV and Movies.”
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I was thinking the same thing - and the cover art is pretty bad for most of these books.
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