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Philippe Pinoli
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After finishing (4th time) 2012+JBNM+Aftermath, I'm reading (5th time each ?) every Agatha Christie's Hercule Poirots cases (best detective ever IMHO, any other fan here ?) & JB's FF run (10th time ?).
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Aaron Smith
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every Agatha Christie's Hercule Poirots cases (best detective ever IMHO, any other fan here ?) *** I'm a fan of Poirot (although I still consider Holmes my favorite). I've read many, though not all of Christie's Poirot stories and am a huge fan of David Suchet's portrayal of the character.
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Chris Cottrill
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The collected works of H.P. Lovecraft. Awesome stuff. Can't believe I hadn't read his stuff sooner.
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Chris Cottrill
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"Catcher in the Rye" by J. D. Salinger
Classic day-in-the-life first-person narration of a boy who is kicked out of his private school and heads into New York City for the day, avoiding heading home to confront his parents. In the top 100 books of the 20th Century on many lists.
Ugh. Totally underwhelmed. Couldn't wait for something to happen, and then nothing did. That just killed me. I mean it. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
@Andrew Hess
See if you can find "The Laughing Man" by Salinger. I think it's one of the
best short stories I've ever read.
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Andrew Hess
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Chris -
Will have to hunt that down. Thanks!
BTW - Have since been told by a number of folk that I've missed the "proper viewing time" of this novel, since it resonates most with adolescent (or just post-adolescent) boys, and I only act like one.
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Andrew Hess
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24) "Ubik" by Phillip K. Dick, as read by Anthony Heald
A team of anti-psychics get caught in a job gone terribly wrong, their boss murdered, and are caught in a reality that blinks and dims like a faulty bulb.
I've only read a couple of Dick's books, and seen a number of movies based on his work, but this seems to be typical: what do you believe if everything you thought was true is in doubt? The differences between the works seems to be the situations presented, this one a sort of spy novel without the spies.
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Fabrice Renault
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Bleak House, by Dickens.
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Michael Hogan
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YANKEES CENTURY, by Glenn Stout. It's a nice historical review of
100 years of the baseball club, with great photos.
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Matt Reed
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Finished the second Longmire book (excellent by the way) and decided to take a break by reading LOST IN SHANGRI-LA by Mitchell Zuckoff. Non-fiction. It takes place at the tail end of WWII when an Army plane on a morale boosting sightseeing misson of a New Guinean valley known as "Shangri-La" crashed leaving only three survivors to slog through the rainforest and encounter natives who had never before seen white people. Harrowing and informative. The Old West, Chicago at the turn of the century, gangsters and the Civil War have always been my fascination. Books on WWII have never really captured that same sense of interest for me, but I'm glad to say that this one so far is a winner.
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Ed Love
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Matt, I've thought about checking out LOST IN SHANGRI-LA. NPR had a lengthy interview/talk about it and the people involved almost a year ago and it sounded very interesting and harrowing from the crash, to their trying to survive and the rescue mission that was launched.
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Andrew Hess
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25) "Goliath" by Scott Westerfeld
Final book in the Leviathan trilogy. This steam-punk world is fairly well thought out, and makes for a great young adult novel, full of derring doo, adventure, tricks, secrets, historical figures, swashbuckling, and touring the world on the underside of a giant floating whale. Now if only I could get my son interested in it.
My one "complaint" is that the book doesn't hold up on it's own, so it's about 1200 pages of book from beginning to end. Great fun, tho.
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Robert Bradley
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THE AVENGERS OMNIBUS came in the mail today!
Woo-Hoo!!!
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