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Wallace Sellars
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Tom Turner’s PALM BEACH PERFIDIOUS 
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MARSHALL ROGERS: BRIGHTEST DAYS and DARKEST KNIGHTS by Messer and Cassell

Done mostly in interview format. He had such a small amount of Batman material but the impact on me as a youth was great.
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I picked up Stephen King's latest, "Never Flinch" but I'm honestly tired of the Holly Gibney character.  Anybody else suffering Holly fatigue?  

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Yep, if I pick up a new King book and see her name, I immediately put it back down.
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Ed: I saw Kubrick’s LOLITA before reading the novel and it left me uncomfortably aware of all the lavish effort Nabokov spent in Humbert’s mind justifying his amorous feelings. The economy of Kubrick’s version left me admiring Nabokov’s style without feeling enriched because, at heart, LOLITA is a pretty unhealthy story which seems to side step the central horrors of its own premise. Makes me want to warn you about the effect of seeing the movie first- if that’s where you are.

edit: "Humberto"? No. Humbert.

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Makes me want to warn you about the effect of seeing the movie first- if that’s where you are.
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Thanks, Mark.  I'm hopefully going into this with my eyes wide open instead of wide shut (see what I did there?) but yeah, part of me is like, "Do I even want to go down this road?"


Yep, if I pick up a new King book and see her name, I immediately put it back down.
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John, yeah, I don't find her annoying so much as really boring though her cutesy habit of saying "poopy" does grate.  I also find the two Robinson siblings who are simply the best at everything they do a bit much. 


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Now starting GUESTS OF THE AYATOLLAH (2006) by Mark Bowden which covers the Iran Hostage Crisis of 1979-1980.

I have read five of Bowden's other non-fiction books and either really enjoyed them (e.g. Black Hawk Down, Hue 1968, The Finish) or managed to find select parts of them interesting to read (Killing Pablo, The Three Battles of Wanat). So we will see how this one stacks up. 
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Just finished Brighton Rock by Graham Greene. It's well written and has more depth than your garden variety crime novel, but Pinkie is such a piece of work that it's not really enjoyable to spend so much time with him... 
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THE CITY AT WORLD’S END, based my assumption that JB would
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Brace yourself for Fifties sensibilities!
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Thought I would take another stroll thru Asimov’s FOUNDATION.
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