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John Byrne
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I got a splash page done and the first page, but it was very much a back-burner project, due to everything else I was juggling at the time, so it kind of faded away more than being "canceled".
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Brian Miller
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I didn’t want to use “canceled” but couldn’t think of a better word.
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John Byrne
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THE DEVIL REACHED TOWARD THE SKY by Garrett M. GraffI’ve read several books on the history of the atomic bomb, so I expect to learn nothing new here (it was a gift), but the presentation, told entirely in quotes as an “oral history” is interesting.
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Peter Martin
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The House of Stairs by Ruth Rendell writing as Barbara Vine. I have a local second-hand bookshop that I frequent and go there armed with a mental list of authors. If I find a book in the shop that matches anyone on my list, I tend to buy. For a while, I'd been looking for any of Rendell's books written as Vine, but could never find any -- turns out general fiction was the wrong section, as was thriller... Bizarrely there was another even more specific section in which she was hidden. Anyway, picked up The House of Stairs for a few bucks and am now maybe 50 pages in. It kind of worms its way obliquely to where it is going, which I quite like, not spoonfeeding any info, but instead unspooling it slowly and almost offhandedly, never making a big thing about its revelations.
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James Best
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I’ve read several books on the history of the atomic bomb, so I expect to learn nothing new here...
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Are there any particular books on the history of the atomic bomb that you would recommend?
I have read the two non-fiction works by Richard Rhodes but wouldn't mind branching out to some other quality authors.
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John Byrne
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The Richard Rhodes books are definitely the best.
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James Best
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Now starting THE FATE OF THE DAY: The War for America, Fort Ticonderoga to Charleston, 1777-1780 by Rick Atkinson. It is the second volume of his planned trilogy covering the American Revolution.
I have been reading Atkinson's stuff for almost three decades now. I have most of his books in hardcover and back in 2004, when I was in Iraq for OIF-II, my wife went to one of his book signings in Texas and had him inscribe them for me... Yet another reason why I married her :-)
Edited by James Best on 06 September 2025 at 7:53pm
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Rick Senger
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Thanks to the Taschen sale (up to 75% off; ends tomorrow), a murder weapon-sized "The Stanley Kubrick Archives" edited by Alison Castle and Taschen survey books on HR Giger, Edward Hopper, Gaudi and Film Noir.
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Jean-Michel Walker
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Just started Metamorphoses by Ovid.
Translated by David Raeburn.
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Jack Caleb Day
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I've recently been listening to Tarzan Of The Apes in audio format. Very good story with more depth than I expected from my previous assumptions about the Tarzan franchise.
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Steve Coates
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Tarzan and other Burroughs works can not be considered a franchise. All ERBs works and subsequent adaptations are heavily controlled by his heirs.
Is your audio book using the original text or the 1960s modified text?
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