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Brad Brickley
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I am soooo backed upo on reading materials. I have a bad habit of snagging stuff that looks interesting and then having no time to read it.
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I'm the same way. I have about 20 books that I've picked up in the last year that I need to get to. Nice thing about books, they don't go bad.
I've gotten sidetracked on my reading this summer. However, I am reading Michael J. Foxes biography Lucky Man right now. I picked it up on my Kindle for $1.99. I've always enjoyed his acting and his book is interesting on how he discovered his Parkinson's Disease and how he and his family has coped with it.
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Derek Cavin
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A lot of books to read here as well. The library had a book sale: paperbacks $.25 and hard cover $1. Nice to walk out with nine books for $5.25.
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Andrew Hess
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| Posted: 16 August 2012 at 8:03am | IP Logged | 3
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30) "Soon I Will Be Invincible" by Austin Grossman
Alternating first-person narrative of the world's smartest super-criminal and one of it's latest super-heroes, which leads up to their cataclysmic battle. Slightly ironic throughout, this is ultimately a straight adventure tale which not only covers the criminal's latest plot to take over the world but also 70 years of history of earth's mightiest heroes. Recommended even to those who don't like comics and want a light read.
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Michael Arndt
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Gangster Squad: Covert Cops, the Mob, and the Battle for Los Angeles by Paul Lieberman and... Hellboy, Vol. 2: Wake the Devil by Mike Mignola
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Steve D Swanson
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Myths and Legend of the Celts by James MacKillop An interesting overview of various Celtic myths which was written reasonably well but didn't have the impetus of other books of this type I've read. Probably because it was meant to be a reference book and broad overview and wasn't concerned with explaining or contextualizing the information (in terms of saying how the stories fit in and explain aspects of Celtic culture. It does some of that but isn't the focus). For me I wanted more but I think a companion book that delves deeper would serve my desires better. Just started The Lost City of Z: A tale of deadly obsession in the Amazon by David Grann. A hundred or so pages in and it is moving really well, with momentum and purpose. Hopefully it keeps it up.
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Andrew Hess
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31) "Mockingjay" by Suzanne Collins
Last in the "Hunger Games" trilogy. Even more standing around talking, and since large sections of the story happen outside of the hearing of Katniss (who spends a lot of time wandering around not doing anything), we get synopsises of things instead of seeing her experience it. Added to that, there are a couple of extremely important actions that happen that we get absolutely no glimpse of how this affects Katniss emotionally, which Collins has gone into great detail about before. There's also a lame attempt at creating another "arena" experience at the end of the book, with many characters in peril. As in the other books, we have no emotional bonds with most of these characters, so we don't care what happens to them in the end. In the end: great first book, not a great trilogy. As with many trilogies.
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Brett Stuart
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Steve, The Lost City of Z is a great book. Read it a couple of years back and could not put it down. Hope you enjoy it.
Just started And Then There Were None by Agatha Christie on my Kindle at work. Really good so far.
At home I'm starting Strange and Stranger: The World of Steve Ditko by Blake Bell.
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Derek Cavin
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Hands Up, Miss Seeton by Hamilton Crane
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Fabrice Renault
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I just finished Bleak House by Dickens. Next on my list is (almost) the complete works of Fantomas...
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Peter Sullivan
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Re-reading the Mack Bolan Executioner books starting at the beginning.Weird how these things come around again.
Cheers, Peter
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Steve Ogden
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Love me some Mac Bolan, Peter. Great series of books.
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Andrew Hess
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For the longest time I thought that the Executioner books were Punisher books, and that Marvel had gotten rights to the character somehow.
But I won't admit that to anyone.
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