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Paul Lloyd
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Not long finished Bill Bryson's "A Walk In The Woods" and I agree, it was wonderful.Now reading John Scalzi's "Redshirts", which is very funny and well thought-out (but reminds me of Galaxy Quest).
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Thomas Moudry
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Finished A Walk in the Woods a few days back. Now, I'm on to the first
Reacher novel, Killing Floor.
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Mike Purdy
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Just started "The Affair", the penultimate for now, Reacher book.
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Andrew Hess
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| Posted: 03 January 2013 at 9:52pm | IP Logged | 4
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72) "The Big Sleep" by Raymond Chandler, read by Elliot Gould
Private detective Phillip Marlowe takes on a small-time blackmail case for a wealthy family and uncovers a web of lies and murder.
Tho the descriptions and dialogue are fairly sparse, there are passages when Chandler sets up the scene that are almost poetry, showing a real love of Los Angeles. Listening to this (yes, I was *listening* to a book! get over it) I was imagining the era of post-war California, until I read that the book was published in 1939; so pre-WWII, and so in my mind the styles and settings changed, and also became less stark.
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Didier Yvon Paul Fayolle
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Starting "Poorly Made in China"...
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Daniel Beziz
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I am hooked on "The Black Box", the latest Harry Bosch novel by Michael Connelly...
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Manuel Tavares
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Last night started reading MEDITATION: THE FIRST AND LAST FREEDOM (OSHO). I love meditation and want to read and learn as much as a can around the subject.
I'm interested a lot on JESUS CHRIST so I picked up JESUS VAN NAZARET by PAUL VERHOEVEN (I'm going to hell after reading this, although I'm an open mind I hardly believe Verhoeven will convert me into his perspective of his historic Jesus Christ)
And A BRIEF HISTORY OF THE FREEMASONS by JASPER RIDLEY.
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Andrew Hess
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73) "The Gun Seller" by Hugh Laurie
An ex-British soldier gets caught up in a plot by various government officials and businessmen to start a war in order to sell munitions.
At times hilarious and insightful, this first novel by actor/musician/etc Laurie is a fabulous example of the rarely well-combined genres of humour and thriller. And because I've seen enough of what Laurie was starring in back in the mid-90s when he wrote this, reading this was almost like an audio book read by him in character. (Oddly, the audio version of this book is not read by him.)
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Emery Calame
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"The Player of Games (A Culture Novel)" by Iain Banks.
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John Byrne
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WORK OF ART, the 1935 Sinclair Lewis novel I was given last year as a Christmas present.This is a BIG book -- over 400 pages -- and the story being told is of a young (and eventually not-so-young) man rising thru the hotel business, learning his trade as he goes. Like most of the Lewis novels I've been reading lately -- ELMER GANTRY, BABBITT, MAIN STREET -- it's a snapshot of a time and place -- albeit a snapshot seen thru a somewhat jaundiced eye. It's possible to read it as a straightforward story, but one also has to keep an awareness of Lewis' views and attitudes in the forefront of one's mind. Past the halfway point, and enjoying myself -- but starting to wonder if it's really going anywhere.
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Flavio Sapha
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ANDREW HESS:
And because I've seen enough of what Laurie was starring in back in the mid-90s when he wrote this,
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Flavio Sapha
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How did you get hooked on Lewis, JB?
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