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Robbie Parry
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Thank you very much, Aaron. I feel a bit silly now, but I just assumed most Essential volumes started with the first stuff, so I assumed they just skipped the 93 issues. Appreciate the info (now off to order ESSENTIAL CLASSIC X-MEN from amazon).
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Happy to help, Robbie. I need to get those myself soon. I still haven't read the early X-Men stories either.
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47) "The Amazing Story of Quantum Mechanics" by James Kakalios

A very readable (mostly) math-free introduction to quantum mechanics, the field of modern physics that tends to send students screaming from college Introduction to Physics classes. Kakalios (author of the even more readable "The Physics of Superheroes") starts each chapter with science fiction or comic book concepts, then discusses the underlying science that would make some of these work, or how modern technology such as cell phones and DVD players work. The concepts can get a little dense, but he discusses them with humor.
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Robert -

I'm reading "A Clockwork Orange" myself right now. McDowell is "narrating" in my head too, so it must be natural.
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48) "Diamonds Are Forever" by Ian Fleming, read by Simon Vance

James Bond is back in the US, this time tracking down the head of a diamond smuggling gang in Nevada. 

This is several steps down from the world shattering plot of the last Bond novel (tho at least we didn't have bridge this time); and Las Vegas doesn't seem to be the typical "exotic locale" Bond stories have become famous for.
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11.22.63 by Stephen King. There's a bit where the main character spends a stretch teaching at a small town in Texas that is very well put together and reminds you King can still spin a great tale, but then he gets back to the Kennedy stuff and it's all a bit meh. 
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Robert Kowalewski II
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Grabbed The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde to read off my shelf, the next book on my list might just be The Invisible Man...
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Leigh DJ Hunt
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Yesterday I recieved a package containing:

Trio TPB (which I erad in one sitting last night)

JB's Next Men hardbacks vols 1-3 (which will be next)

Marvel Firsts: The 70's - Vols 2 and 3 (love these books)

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Derek Cavin
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War of the Twins - Weis & Hickman
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I'm almost finished with Too Big to Save? How to Fix the U.S. Financial System by Robert C. Pozen (former chairman of MFS Investment Management). Robert grew up in the neighboring town of Bridgeport, Connecticut.
After that, it's on to The Ten-Cent Plague by David Hadju (Columbia University). Westfield Comics sent The Judas Coin by Walter Simonson with September's shipment, so that's on my "to do" list, also.
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Our mutual friend, by Charles Dickens.
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49) "The Woman Who Died A Lot" by Jasper Fforde

A brilliant entry in the Thursday Next police procedural/comedy/sci-fi series, as Next deals with the effects of time travel, the pervasive Goliath Corporation, and trying to stop the smiting of Swinden by the Deity.
Fforde writes brilliantly, as if Douglas Adams couuld plot properly (no disrespect meant). Highly recommended, to fans of any of the above genres and others who might not be covered.
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