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Rick Senger
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KIRBY - KING OF COMICS. Got it on Amazon for 16 clams. Nice big oversized format really helps capture the glory of JK.... this was a very good purchase.
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Andrew Hess
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79) "River Out of Eden" by Richard Dawkins
Dawkins summation of evolutionary biology uses simple metaphors and experimental results to make his points clear and builds upon them to make more complex ideas more apparent.
This is a book from the Science Masters series from the 90s, where experts in given fields are given a chance to write to a broader audience. Very clear, and barely controversial.
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Michael Hogan
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MONUMENT TO MURDER by Margaret Truman
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Andrew Hess
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80) "The Man with the Golden Gun" by Ian Fleming, read by Robert Whitfield
This final James Bond novel was ultimately a let down: Bond is brainwashed by the KGB to kill M, but Bond is knocked out just in time and M decides to send him off on an extremely difficult mission to get him back on track; all of this in the first chapter. The rest of the book takes place in Jamaica, where Bond is to track down and kill a contract assassin, who it turns out is involved in a KGB plot to destabilize the region. Throughout the book hardly a mention is made of Bond's time being brainwashed, how he is doing since he was "cured", and so on.
However, Fleming died in the middle of the process: the first draft of the book was done and edited, but he added a lot of detail to his books after that point; so I'll forgive him this.
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Peter Martin
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I don't know what's come over me, but I've started going back to my book shelf and re-reading titles.
I've now gone back to Stephen King's 'On Writing'. Very readable. Interesting tidbit: the great man writes 2000 words a day. Impressive stuff -- that equates to four long novels a year if no breaks are factored in.
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Aaron Smith
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I've now gone back to Stephen King's 'On Writing'. Very readable.
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Have you read King's "Danse Macabre," his book on horror fiction? I read it a few years ago and he managed, with a non-fiction book, to write something that is often as frightening and disturbing as some of his fiction.
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Andrew Hess
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81) "Ready Player One" by Ernest Cline
In a dystopian future, the creator of the world's biggest virtual universe dies and leaves everything he owns (and that's a lot) to whomever can solve a fiendishly clever set of puzzles based in 70s and 80s pop culture, which sets off a contest by hackers and corporations to win the quest.
Fun and hilarious drive thru my (and many of this book's fans) adolescence, this is one of my teen-aged son's favorite books too (he had checked this out of the library and had just finished reading it for the fourth time when I asked to borrow it). Highly recommended brain-candy of a read.
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Matthew Hansel
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"Cat's Cradle" by Kurt Vonnegut and "Shop Talk" by Will Eisner MPH
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Peter Martin
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Have you read King's "Danse Macabre," his book on horror fiction?---------------------------------------------- Yes, I borrowed this from the library back... well, back when I used to borrow books from the library (gosh, it must have been more than 20 year ago... frightening!)
Danse Macabre led me to seek out The House Next Door by Anne River Siddons, which was a very pleasurable read.
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Peter Martin
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"Cat's Cradle" by Kurt Vonnegut------------------------------------------- A little gem of a book.
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Chris Workman
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"The Spy Who Came in From the Cold" by John Le Carre.
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Jefferson Wolfe
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The Complete Short Stories of Theodore Sturgeon.Just finished re-reading all the Hellboy comics, Harlan Ellison's Hornbook and Rachel Rising Vol. 2.
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