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Matthew Chartrand
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Brave New World by Aldous Huxley. First time reading this, strange but interesting.
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Andrew Hess
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Just "read" (audio book) that for the first time myself, about a month ago.
I agree with your review.
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Andrew Hess
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16) "Behemoth" by Scott Westerfeld
Sequel to "Leviathan" (that I read a couple of weeks ago). Excellent sequel, but not quite an excellent book: it picks up on the story started in the previous book and moves things along, but no great developments or fascinating new ideas such as we saw in the first book.
That said, a great, rollicking adventure, written for kids but appropriate for everyone. I will definitely read the final book in the trilogy.
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Marcel Chenier
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The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo.
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John Byrne
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A PRINCESS OF MARSInspired by my enjoyment of the JOHN CARTER movie, I bought a collection of Burrough's Martian novels from Amazon. Six or seven chapters into the first, which I have not read before. Immediately struck by how FORMAL the writing style is.
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John Byrne
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Before Plan 9: Plans 1-8 From Outer Space" conceived and edited by Tony Schaab. •• Doesn't work, contextually. When Eros reports his progress, the Boss Alien asks him "which plan" he has been using, whereupon Eros says "Plan 9". The Boss Alien then checks a list to see which one that is. There's no suggestion that there have been eight previous plans. That would have rendered the conversation redundant. There are at least nine plans prepared, and 9 is the one in use. There could be 10, 11, 15 --- 106. But, so far as we know, Plan 9 is the only one that has been tried. . . . so far.
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Andrew Hess
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I read "Princess of Mars" a couple of months ago. Thoroughly enjoyed it, formal writing and all. Enjoyed it so much, in fact, that I just started "The Gods of Mars."
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Mike Purdy
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Just finished "In One Person" by John Irving and am now starting "Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter".
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Lars Sandmark
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JB you did the same thing I did.
I enjoyed John Carter at the theatre and straight away went next door to Chapters (chain bookstore) and bought the original novel/movie novelization paperback. (still in my queue.)
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Andrew Hess
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17) "The 39 Steps" by John Buchan, read by Robert Powell
This book has very little to do with the Hitchcock movie, or rather vice versa: a couple of the main plot points (innocent man gets caught up in spy plot, has to run thru Scotland to stay ahead of the police and to prove his innocence) and a couple of twists; but some of the main points in the movie are pure fabrication: there is no music hall setting (minor point) and no woman brought in to the whole plot. There is actually no female characters at all, aside from a couple of unnamed women who are mentioned in passing.
That said, it's a fun first-person narrative thriller with lots of twists, tho a little provincial and oh so British.
The reader played the main character in the 1978 movie (which I understand is more closely based on the book than the Hitchcock film) and a subsequent British TV series. He did a great job with some of the dialects, especially the various Scottish characters who populate the middle section of the book.
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Wallace Sellars
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Walter Mosley's ALL I DID WAS SHOOT MY MAN
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Barry Maine
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Jim Butcher's White Night. I've become a sucker for the
Dresden series.
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